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

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”)

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