Tel Aviv

English

Alternative forms

• Tel-Aviv

Etymology

From Hebrew תֵּל אָבִיב (tel 'avív), from the title of Nahum Sokolow's translation of Theodor Herzl's Altneuland (“The Old New Land”). From תֵּל (tél, “hill formed by ancient ruins”), symbolizing the Old, and אָבִיב ('avív, “spring”), symbolizing the New.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌtɛl.əˈvɪv/
• IPA^(key): /ˌtɛl.əˈviːv/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪv

Proper noun

Tel Aviv

2. A city in Israel that later merged with Jaffa to form Tel Aviv-Yafo.
   • 2024 September 25, Irene Nasser, Dana Karni, Helen Regan, Sophie Tanno, “Israel intercepts Hezbollah ballistic missile near Tel Aviv in first such attack”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 1 November 2024:

     Israel intercepted a missile fired by Hezbollah near Tel Aviv on Wednesday, an unprecedented attack by the militant group that reached deep into the country’s commercial heartlands and marked a new escalatory step in the conflict between the two sides.

3. (by extension) A district in Israel.

   Synonym: Tel Aviv District

4. (informal or formerly) The municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo.
5. The center of Tel Aviv-Yafo.

Derived terms

• Hell Aviv

Translations

city in Israel

• Amharic: ቴል አቪቭ (tel ʾäviv)
• Arabic: تَلّ أَبِيب f (tall ʔabīb), تَلّ أَبِيب يَافَا f (tall ʔabīb yāfā)
• Aramaic: ܬܠ ܐܒܝܒ
• Armenian: Թել Ավիվ (hy) (Tʻel Aviv)
• Basque: Tel Aviv
• Belarusian: Тэль-Аві́ў m (Telʹ-Avíw)
• Bengali: তেল আভিভ (tel abhibh)
• Bulgarian: Тел Ави́в m (Tel Avív)
• Catalan: Tel Aviv
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 特拉維夫 / 特拉维夫 (zh) (Tèlāwéifū)

• Czech: Tel Aviv (cs) m
• Danish: Tel Aviv n
• Dutch: Tel Aviv n
• Esperanto: Tel-Avivo
• Finnish: Tel Aviv (fi)
• French: Tel Aviv (fr) m, Tel-Aviv (fr) m, Tel Aviv-Jaffa m, Tel-Aviv-Jaffa (fr) m
• Galician: Tel Aviv
• Georgian: თელ-ავივი (tel-avivi)
• German: Tel Aviv-Jaffa n, Tel Aviv (de) n
• Greek: Τελ Αβίβ n (Tel Avív), Τελ Αβίβ-Γιάφα (Tel Avív-Giáfa)

  Ancient Greek: Θελαβίβ f (Thelabíb)

• Hebrew: תֵּל אָבִיב (he) f (tel 'avív), תֵּל אָבִיב־יָפוֹ (tel 'avív–yáfo)
• Hindi: तेल अवीव m (tel avīv)
• Hungarian: Tel-Aviv (hu), Tel-Aviv-Jaffa (hu)
• Indonesian: Tel Aviv
• Italian: Tel Aviv f
• Japanese: テルアビブ (ja) (Teru-Abibu), テル・アヴィヴ (Teru-Avivu)
• Korean: 텔아비브 (Terabibeu), 텔 아비브 (Tel abibeu), 텔 어빕 (Tel eobip)
• Ladino: Tel Aviv
• Latin: Tēlāvīvum n, Thēlābīb
• Latvian: Telaviva f
• Lithuanian: Tel Avivas m
• Macedonian: Тел Авив m (Tel Aviv)
• Malayalam: ടെല് അവീവ് (ṭel avīvŭ)
• Māori: Terewiwi
• Marathi: तेल अवीव n (tel avīv)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Tel Aviv n

• Persian: تل‌آویو (tel-âviv)
• Polish: Tel Awiw (pl) m
• Portuguese: Tel Aviv f, Tel Aviv-Yafo f, Telavive f
• Romanian: Tel Aviv
• Russian: Тель-Ави́в (ru) m (Telʹ-Avív), Тель-Ави́в — Я́ффо m (Telʹ-Avív — Jáffo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Тел Авив m

  Latin: Tel Aviv m

• Slovak: Tel Aviv m
• Slovene: Tel Aviv m
• Spanish: Tel Aviv (es) m
• Swedish: Tel Aviv n
• Tagalog: Tel Aviv-Yafo
• Tajik: Тел-Авив (Tel-Aviv)
• Tamil: டெல் அவீவ் (ṭel avīv)
• Thai: เทลอาวีฟ
• Turkish: Tel Aviv (tr)
• Ukrainian: Тель-Аві́в m (Telʹ-Avív)
• Urdu: تَل اَبِیب m (tal abīb)
• Vietnamese: Ten A-víp, Đồi Xuân (calque)
• Welsh: Tel Aviv
• Yiddish: תּל־אָבֿיבֿ (tel-oviv)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Telavive

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew תֵּל אָבִיב (tel 'avív).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌtɛ.laˈvi.vi/

Proper noun

Tel Aviv f

1. Tel Aviv (a city in Israel)

   Synonym: Tel Aviv-Yafo

Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Tel Aviv m inan (Cyrillic spelling Тел Авив)

1. Tel Aviv (a city in Israel)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌtel aˈbib/ [ˌt̪el aˈβ̞iβ̞]
• Syllabification: Tel A‧viv

Proper noun

Tel Aviv ?

1. Tel Aviv