intifada

English

Alternative forms

• intefadah, intifadah, Intifada

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اِنْتِفَاضَة‎ (intifāḍa, “shaking off, uprising, insurrection”).

Noun

intifada (plural intifadas)

1. Insurrection, a usually violent attempt to take control of a government.
2. An uprising, resistant struggle or rebellious protest, especially the Palestinian uprisings against Israel.
   • 2021 May 11, Thomas L. Friedman, “Israelis, Palestinians and Their Neighbors Worry: Is This the Big One?”, in The New York Times‎^[1], ISSN 0362-4331:

     But unlike the Intifadas that began in 1987 and 2000, when Israel had someone to call to try to turn it off, there is no Palestinian on the other end of the phone this time […]

Translations

intifada

• Arabic: اِنْتِفَاضَة‎ f (intifāḍa)
• Bengali: ইন্তিফাদা (intiphada)
• Catalan: intifada (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (巴勒斯坦...) 起義 (zh), 起义 (zh) (qǐyì), 大起義, 大起义 (dà qǐyì)

• Czech: intifáda (cs) f
• Finnish: intifada
• French: intifada (fr) f
• German: Intifada (de) f
• Hebrew: אִנְתִּיפָדָה‎ f (intifáda)
• Hindi: इंतिफ़ादा (intifādā)
• Japanese: インティファーダ (intifāda)
• Korean: 인티파다 (intipada)
• Malay: intifadah

• Pashto: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: انتفاضه‎ (fa) (entefâze)
• Portuguese: intifada (pt) f
• Russian: интифа́да (ru) f (intifáda)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: интифада f

  Roman: intifada (sh) f

• Spanish: intifada f
• Swedish: intifada c
• Tajik: интифоза (intifoza)
• Turkish: intifada (tr)
• Urdu: انتفاضه‎ f (intifāza)
• Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: אינטיפֿאַדע‎ f (intifade)

See also

• intifadist

Further reading

• intifada on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

---

French

Noun

intifada f (plural intifadas)

1. intifada

---

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in.tiˈfa.da/
• Rhymes: -ada
• Hyphenation: in‧ti‧fà‧da

Noun

intifada f (plural intifade)

1. intifada

---

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اِنْتِفَاضَة‎ (intifāḍa, “shaking off, uprising, insurrection”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌĩ.t͡ʃi.ˈfa.dɐ/

Noun

intifada f (plural intifadas)

1. intifada (insurrection by Palestinians against Israel)

---

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اِنْتِفَاضَة‎ (intifāḍa, “shaking off, uprising, insurrection”).

Noun

intifada f (plural intifadas)

1. intifada (insurrection by Palestinians against Israel)

Further reading

• “intifada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014