इसराइल

Hindi

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِسْرَائِيل (ʔisrāʔīl), from Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל (yisra'él).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

इसराइल • (isrāilm (Urdu spelling اسرائیل)

  1. Israel (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)
  2. (biblical) Israel (a Biblical region of Western Asia roughly coextensive with the modern State of Israel, known in the Bible as the Land of Israel and considered the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people)
  3. (historical) Israel (an ancient kingdom in Western Asia, roughly coextensive with the modern State of Israel and the Land of Israel)
  4. (historical) Israel (an ancient kingdom that occupied the northern part of the Land of Israel and modern State of Israel, as distinct from Judah)

Declension

Declension of इसराइल (sg-only masc cons-stem)
singular
direct इसराइल
isrāil
oblique इसराइल
isrāil
vocative इसराइल
isrāil

Derived terms

See also

countries in Asia: एशिया के देश (eśiyā ke deś) (appendix)edit