פלסטין

• ܦܠܣܛܝܢ

• IPA^(key): /pælæstˤin/

פלסטין • (palasṭīn)

1. Hebrew spelling of ܦܠܣܛܝܢ (palasṭīn, “Palestine”)

Borrowed from South Levantine Arabic فلسطين (falasṭīn), from Ancient Greek Παλαιστίνη (Palaistínē).

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /fa.lasˈtin/

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פָלַסְטִין • (falastín) f

1. (politics) Palestine (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East; the State of Palestine; the homeland of the Palestinian people) (especially post-1948)

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• פלשתינה (palestína, “Palestine, geographical, pre-1948”)
• פלשתים (p'lishtím, “Philistines”)
• פלשת (p'léshet, “Philistia”)
• פלשתינה א״י (palestína áy, “Palestine-Eretz Yisrael, the pre-1948 Zionist community”)