Palestina

See also: palestina and Palestína

Asturian

Proper noun

Palestina f

1. Palestine

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /pə.ləsˈti.nə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /pa.lesˈti.na/

Proper noun

Palestina f

1. Palestine (a historical region and province of the Roman Empire in the Levant, Asia)
2. Palestine, State of Palestine (a country in the Levant, Asia)

Related terms

• palestí

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Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Palestina

1. Palestine (a country in Asia)

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Central Nahuatl

Proper noun

Palestina

1. Palestine (a country in Asia)

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpalɛstɪna]
• Rhymes: -ɪna

Proper noun

Palestina f

1. Palestine

Derived terms

• Palestinec
• palestinský

Further reading

• Palestina in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• Palestina in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Dutch

Etymology

• Borrowed from Latin Palaestīna.
• (Nijkerk) First attested as Palestina in 1843. Named after the region in the Middle East. Originally the name of a farm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpaː.lɛsˈti.naː/
• Hyphenation: Pa‧les‧ti‧na
• Rhymes: -aː

Proper noun

Palestina n

1. Palestine (political entity).

   Synonym: Palestijnse Gebieden

2. Palestine (region in the southern Levant, covering modern-day Palestine and Israel).
3. (historical) Roman Palestine (province of the Roman Empire).
4. A hamlet in Nijkerk, Gelderland, Netherlands.

Derived terms

• Palestijn

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.leˈsti.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: Pa‧le‧stì‧na

Etymology 1

From Latin Palaestina.

Proper noun

Palestina f

1. Palestine

Derived terms

• palestinese

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French Palestine.

Noun

Palestina f (invariable)

1. a large size of type standardized as 24 points

Anagrams

• penalista, sinpetala, spalatine

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Lithuanian

Proper noun

Palestina f

1. Palestine (a country in Asia)

Declension

    declension of Palestina

nominative	Palestina
genitive	Palestinos
dative	Palestinai
accusative	Palestiną
instrumental	Palestina
locative	Palestinoje
vocative	Palestina

Related terms

• palestinietis m, palestinietė f

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Palestina

1. Palestine

Related terms

• palestiner
• palestinsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Palestina

1. Palestine

Related terms

• palestinar
• palestinsk

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Portuguese

Palestina

Etymology

From Latin Palaestīna (“Roman province of Palestine”), from Ancient Greek Παλαιστίνη (Palaistínē), from Hebrew פְּלֶשֶׁת‎ (p'léshet, “Philistia, land of the Philistines”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.lesˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.lesˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /pa.leʃˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /pa.lesˈt͡ʃi.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /pɐ.lɨʃˈti.nɐ/

• Homophone: palestina
• Hyphenation: Pa‧les‧ti‧na

Proper noun

Palestina f

1. Palaestina (a historical region and province of the Roman Empire in the Levant, Asia)
2. Palestine, State of Palestine (a country in the Levant, Asia)
3. A municipality of São Paulo, Brazil

Meronyms

• Cisjordânia, Faixa de Gaza

Related terms

• filisteu
• palestinense
• palestiniano
• palestino

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /palestǐːna/
• Hyphenation: Pa‧le‧sti‧na

Proper noun

Palestína f (Cyrillic spelling Палести́на)

1. Palestine

Declension

Declension of Palestina

	singular
nominative	Palestina
genitive	Palestine
dative	Palestini
accusative	Palestinu
vocative	Palestino
locative	Palestini
instrumental	Palestinom

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Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /palɛstíːna/

Proper noun

Palestȋna f

1. Palestine

Inflection

Feminine, a-stem
nominative	Palestína
genitive	Palestíne
	singular
nominative	Palestína
accusative	Palestíno
genitive	Palestíne
dative	Palestíni
locative	Palestíni
instrumental	Palestíno

Related terms

• Palestínec / Palestínka
• palestínski

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /palesˈtina/ [pa.lesˈt̪i.na]

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: Pa‧les‧ti‧na

Proper noun

Palestina f

1. Palestine

Related terms

• palestino

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Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

Proper noun

Palestina

1. Palestine (region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River)
   • 2018 November 14, “Mzozo wa Palestina na Israel: watatiza Baraza la Usalama”, in BBC Swahili‎^[1]:

     Balozi wa Palestina katika Umoja wa Mataifa Riyad Mansour ameilaumu Marekani kwa kuwa pingamizi.

     The ambassador from Palestine to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, has blamed the US for being an obstruction.

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Swedish

Proper noun

Palestina n (genitive Palestinas)

1. Palestine

Related terms

• palestinier
• palestinsk