Hezbollah

English

Alternative forms

• Hizbullah
• Hizbollah
• Hizballah
• Hizb Allah

Etymology

From Arabic حِزْبُ اللّٰه (ḥizbu llāh, literally “party of God”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌhɛz.bəˈlɑ/, /ˈhɛz.bə.lə/, /ˌhɛzˈboʊ.lɑ/, /-bɒ-/

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Proper noun

Hezbollah

1. A political and military Shi'a Islamic organization that arose after the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.

   There are fears of another war between Hezbollah and Israel as border clashes continue.

Derived terms

• Hezbollahzation, Hezbollahization

Translations

Lebanese Shia islamic organisation

• Afrikaans: Hezbollah
• Albanian: Hizbullah m
• Arabic: حِزْبُ اللّٰه m (ḥizbu llāh, literally “party of Allah, party of God”)
• Armenian: Հեզբոլլահ (Hezbollah)
• Belarusian: Хезбала́ f (Xjezbalá), Хэзбала́ f (Xezbalá)
• Breton: Hezbollah
• Bulgarian: Хизбула́ f (Hizbulá), Хизбулла́х m (Hizbulláh)
• Catalan: Hesbol·là, Hezbol·là
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 真主黨／真主党 (zan¹ zyu² dong², literally “party of Allah”)

  Mandarin: 真主黨／真主党 (zh) (Zhēnzhǔdǎng, literally “party of Allah”)

• Chuvash: Хезболла (Hezbolla)
• Czech: Hizballáh (cs)
• Danish: Hizbollah
• Dutch: Hezbollah (nl)
• Esperanto: Hizbulaho
• Estonian: Ḩizb Allāh
• Finnish: Hizbollah
• French: Hezbollah (fr) m
• Galician: Hesbulá
• Georgian: ჰეზბოლა (hezbola)
• German: Hisbollah (de)
• Greek: Χεζμπολάχ (el) (Chezmpolách), Χεζμπολά (el) (Chezmpolá)
• Hebrew: חיזבאללה (hizballa), חִזְבַּאלְלָה (hizballa)
• Hindi: हिज़बुल्लाह m (hizbullāh)
• Hungarian: Hezbollah (hu)
• Indonesian: Hizbullah
• Italian: Hezbollah
• Japanese: ヒズボラ (Hizubora)
• Korean: 헤즈볼라 (Hejeubolla)
• Lithuanian: Hezbollah
• Macedonian: Хезболах m (Hezbolah)
• Malay: Hizbullah
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Hizbollah

• Pashto: حزب الله m (hizbu llāh)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: حِزْب‌ُاللهِ لُبْنان (hezbollâh-e lobnân, literally “Lebanese Hezbollah”), حِزْب‌ُالله (hezbollâh)

• Polish: Hezbollah (pl) m
• Portuguese: Hizbollah
• Romanian: Hezbollah
• Russian: Хезболла́ (ru) f (Xezbollá), Хезбалла́ f (Xezballá), Хезболла́х (ru) m (Xezbolláx), Хизбалла́ (ru) f (Xizballá), Хизбалла́х (ru) m (Xizballáx), Хизбулла́х m (Xizbulláx)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Хезболлах m, Хезболах m

  Roman: Hezbollah m

• Slovak: Hizballáh
• Slovene: Hezbolah
• Spanish: Hezbolá
• Swahili: Hezbollah
• Swedish: Hizbollah
• Tajik: Ҳизбуллоҳ (Hizbulloh)
• Tamil: ஹெஸ்புல்லா (hespullā)
• Tatar: Хизбуллаһ (Xizbullah)
• Thai: ฮิซบุลลอหฺ (hít-bul-lɔɔ)
• Turkish: Hizbullah
• Ukrainian: Хізбалла́ f (Xizballá)
• Urdu: حِزْبُ اللّٰہ m (hizbu llāh)
• Uyghur: ھىزبۇللا (hizbulla)
• Uzbek: Hizbulloh
• Vietnamese: Hezbollah
• Yiddish: חיזבאלא (hizballa)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حِزْبُ اللّٰه (ḥizbu llāh).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xɛzˈbɔl.lax/

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• Rhymes: -ɔllax
• Syllabification: Hez‧bol‧lah

Proper noun

Hezbollah m inan

1. (Islam) Hezbollah (Lebanese militant group)

Declension

Declension of Hezbollah

	singular
nominative	Hezbollah
genitive	Hezbollahu
dative	Hezbollahowi
accusative	Hezbollah
instrumental	Hezbollahem
locative	Hezbollahu
vocative	Hezbollahu

Further reading

• Hezbollah in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Hezbollah in PWN's encyclopedia