فلسطین

See also: فلسطين

Ottoman Turkish

فلسطین

Alternative forms

  • فلستین (felestin)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فِلَسْطِين (filasṭīn), itself from Ancient Greek Παλαιστίνη (Palaistínē).

Proper noun

فلسطین • (felestin)

  1. Palestine (a region of Western Asia, in the Middle East)
  2. Palestine (a partly-recognized country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)

Descendants

  • Turkish: Filistin

Further reading

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فلسطین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 909
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Palæstina”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 1234
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “فلسطین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3545
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فلسطین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1395

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فِلَسْطِين (filasṭīn).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [fä.läs.t̪ʰíːn]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [fä.läs.t̪ʰíːn]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [fä.läs.t̪ʰín]

Readings
Classical reading? falastīn
Dari reading? falastīn
Iranian reading? felestin
Tajik reading? falastin

Proper noun

Dari فلسطین
Iranian Persian
Tajik Фаластин

فلسطین • (felestin)

  1. Palestine

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فِلَسْطِين (filasṭīn), likely influenced by Classical Persian فلسطین (falastīn). Compare Punjabi فَلَسْطِین (falast̤īn).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /fɪ.lɪs.t̪iːn/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -iːn
  • Hyphenation: فِ‧لِسْ‧طِین

Proper noun

فِلِسْطِین • (filistīn) m (Hindi spelling फ़िलिस्तीन)

  1. Palestine (a country in the Middle East, Asia)

See also

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