פלשתינה

Hebrew

Etymology

From Latin Palaestīna (“Palestine”), with conscious retention of the consonants in פְּלֶשֶׁת (pléshet, “Philistia”).

Pronunciation

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /palesˈtina/

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Noun

פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה • (palestína) f

1. Palestine (a region of Western Asia between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River) (especially pre-1948)

See also

• פָלַסְטִין (falastín, “Palestine, post-1948”)
• אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל (éretz yisra'él, “the Land of Israel”)
• פלשתינה א"י (palestína áy, “Palestine-Eretz Yisrael, the pre-1948 Zionist community”)