Παλαιστίνη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Perhaps from Hebrew פְּלֶשֶׁת (p'léshet, pəléšeṯ), Egyptian pwrꜣsꜣtj
, or Akkadian 𒉺𒆷𒀸𒌓, with a folk-etymological secondary adaptation to παλαιστής (palaistḗs, “wrestler”); compare perhaps Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל (yisra'él), sometimes translated as “he wrestles God”, and the similar adaptation of Ἱερουσᾱλήμ (Hierousālḗm, “Jerusalem”) to the word ἱερός (hierós, “holy”). See timeline of the name "Palestine" on Wikipedia.
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Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pa.lai̯s.tǐː.nɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pa.lɛsˈti.ne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pa.lɛsˈti.ni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pa.lesˈti.ni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pa.lesˈti.ni/
Proper noun
Παλαιστῑ́νη • (Palaistī́nē) f (genitive Παλαιστῑ́νης); first declension
- Palestine; the Land of Israel; Syria Palaestina
- 340 BCE, Aristotle, chapter 2, in Meteorologika:
- εἰ δ’ ἔστιν ὥσπερ μυθολογοῦσί τινες ἐν Παλαιστίνῃ τοιαύτη λίμνη, εἰς ἣν ἐάν τις ἐμβάλῃ συνδήσας ἄνθρωπον ἢ ὑποζύγιον ἐπιπλεῖν καὶ οὐ καταδύεσθαι κατὰ τοῦ ὕδατος, μαρτύριον ἂν εἴη τι τοῖς εἰρημένοις· λέγουσι γὰρ πικρὰν οὕτως εἶναι τὴν λίμνην καὶ ἁλμυρὰν ὥστε μηδένα ἰχθὺν ἐγγίγνεσθαι, τὰ δὲ ἱμάτια ῥύπτειν, ἐάν τις διασείσῃ βρέξας.
- ei d’ éstin hṓsper muthologoûsí tines en Palaistínēi toiaútē límnē, eis hḕn eán tis embálēi sundḗsas ánthrōpon ḕ hupozúgion epipleîn kaì ou katadúesthai katà toû húdatos, martúrion àn eíē ti toîs eirēménois; légousi gàr pikràn hoútōs eînai tḕn límnēn kaì halmuràn hṓste mēdéna ikhthùn engígnesthai, tà dè himátia rhúptein, eán tis diaseísēi bréxas.
- Again if, as is fabled, there is a lake in Palestine, such that if you bind a man or beast and throw it in it floats and does not sink, this would bear out what we have said. They say that this lake is so bitter and salt that no fish live in it and that if you soak clothes in it and shake them it cleans them.
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ Παλαιστῑ́νη hē Palaistī́nē | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς Παλαιστῑ́νης tês Palaistī́nēs | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῇ Παλαιστῑ́νῃ têi Palaistī́nēi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν Παλαιστῑ́νην tḕn Palaistī́nēn | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Παλαιστῑ́νη Palaistī́nē | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Παλαιστῑνοί (Palaistīnoí)
- Παλαιστῑνός (Palaistīnós)
- Παλαιστῖνος (Palaistînos)
Descendants
Descendants of Παλαιστίνη
- Arabic: فِلَسْطِين (filasṭīn)
- Armenian: Պաղեստին (Paġestin)
- Asturian: Palestina
- Azerbaijani: Fələstin
- Basque: Palestina
- Belarusian: Палестына (Paljestyna)
- Bulgarian: Палестина (Palestina)
- Catalan: Palestina
- Czech: Palestina
- Danish: Palæstina
- Dutch: Palestina
- English: Palestine
- Finnish: Palestiina
- French: Palestine
- Galician: Palestina
- Georgian: პალესტინა (ṗalesṭina)
- German: Palästina
- Pennsylvania German: Baaleschdi
- Greek: Παλαιστίνη (Palaistíni)
- Hebrew:
- Icelandic: Palestína
- Indonesian: Palestina
- Irish: An Phalaistín
- Italian: Palestina
- Japanese: パレスチナ (Paresuchina)
- Korean: 팔레스타인 (Palleseutain)
- Latin: Palaestina
- Macedonian: Палестина (Palestina)
- Malay: Palestin
- Norwegian: Palestina
- Persian: فلسطین
- Polish: Palestyna
- Portuguese: Palestina
- Romanian: Palestina
- Russian: Палестина (Palestina)
- Serbo-Croatian: Палестина, Palestina
- Sicilian: Palistina
- Slovak: Palestína f
- Slovene: Palestina
- Spanish: Palestina
- Swedish: Palestina
- Thai: ปาเลสไตน์ (bpaa-lées-dtaai)
- Turkish: Filistin
- Ukrainian: Палестина (Palestyna)
- Urdu: فلسطین (filastīn)
- Welsh: Palesteina
- Yiddish: פּאַלעסטינע (palestine)
References
- Παλαιστίνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019
Greek
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Παλαιστίνη • (Palaistíni) f (plural Palaistíni)
- Palestine (West Bank and Gaza Strip)
Declension
Παλαιστίνη
case \ number | singular |
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nominative | Παλαιστίνη • |
genitive | Παλαιστίνης • |
accusative | Παλαιστίνη • |
vocative | Παλαιστίνη • |
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