Tel Aviv

English

Alternative forms

Tel-Aviv

Etymology

From Hebrew תֵּל אָבִיב (tel 'avív), from the title of Nahum Sokolow's translation of Theodor Herzl's Altneuland (“The Old New Land”). From תֵּל (tél, “hill formed by ancient ruins”), symbolizing the Old, and אָבִיב ('avív, “Spring”), symbolizing the New.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌtɛl.əˈvɪv/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˌtɛl.əˈviːv/
Rhymes: -ɪv, -iːv

Proper noun

Tel Aviv

A city in Israel that later merged with Jaffa to form Tel Aviv-Yafo.
(by extension) A district in Israel.
Synonym: Tel Aviv District
(informal or formerly) The municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo.
The center of Tel Aviv-Yafo.

Translations

city in Israel

Amharic: ቴል አቪቭ (tel ʾäviv)
Arabic: تَلّ أَبِيب f (tall ʔabīb), تَلّ أَبِيب يَافَا f (tall ʔabīb yāfā)
Aramaic: ܬܠ ܐܒܝܒ
Armenian: Թել Ավիվ (hy) (Tʻel Aviv)
Basque: Tel Aviv
Belarusian: Тэль-Аві́ў m (Telʹ-Avíŭ)
Bengali: তেল আভিভ (tel abhibh)
Bulgarian: Тел Ави́в m (Tel Avív)
Catalan: Tel Aviv
Chinese:
Mandarin: 特拉維夫／特拉维夫 (zh) (Tèlāwéifū)
Czech: Tel Aviv (cs) m
Danish: Tel Aviv n
Dutch: Tel Aviv n
Esperanto: Tel-Avivo
Finnish: Tel Aviv (fi)
French: Tel Aviv (fr) m, Tel-Aviv (fr) m, Tel Aviv-Jaffa m, Tel-Aviv-Jaffa (fr) m
Galician: Tel Aviv
Georgian: თელ-ავივი (tel-avivi)
German: Tel Aviv-Jaffa n, Tel Aviv (de) n
Greek: Τελ Αβίβ n (Tel Avív), Τελ Αβίβ-Γιάφα (Tel Avív-Giáfa)
Ancient Greek: Θελαβίβ f (Thelabíb)
Hebrew: תֵּל אָבִיב (he) f (tel 'avív), תֵּל אָבִיב-יָפוֹ (tel 'avív–yáfo)
Hindi: तेल अवीव m (tel avīv)
Hungarian: Tel-Aviv (hu), Tel-Aviv-Jaffa (hu)
Indonesian: Tel Aviv
Italian: Tel Aviv f
Japanese: テルアビブ (Teru-Abibu), テル・アヴィヴ (Teru-Avivu)
Korean: 텔아비브 (Terabibeu), 텔 어빕 (Tel eobip)
Ladino: Tel Aviv
Latin: Tēlāvīvum n, Thēlābīb
Latvian: Telaviva f
Lithuanian: Tel Avivas m
Macedonian: Тел Авив m (Tel Aviv)
Malayalam: ടെല് അവീവ് (ṭel avīvŭ)
Marathi: तेल अवीव n (tel avīv)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Tel Aviv n
Persian: تل‌آویو (tel-âviv)
Polish: Tel Awiw (pl) m
Portuguese: Tel Aviv f, Tel Aviv-Yafo f
Romanian: Tel Aviv
Russian: Тель-Ави́в (ru) m (Telʹ-Avív), Тель-Ави́в — Я́ффо m (Telʹ-Avív — Jáffo)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Тел Авив m

Roman: Tel Aviv m
Slovak: Tel Aviv m
Slovene: Tel Aviv m
Spanish: Tel Aviv (es) m
Swedish: Tel Aviv n
Tagalog: Tel Aviv-Yafo
Tamil: டெல் அவீவ் (ṭel avīv)
Thai: เทลอาวีฟ
Turkish: Tel Aviv
Ukrainian: Тель-Аві́в m (Telʹ-Avív)
Urdu: تَل اَبِیب m (tal abīb)
Vietnamese: Ten A-víp, Đồi Xuân (calque)
Welsh: Tel Aviv
Yiddish: תּל־אָבֿיבֿ (tel-oviv)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Telavive

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew תֵּל אָבִיב (tel 'avív).

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌtɛ.laˈvi.vi/

Proper noun

Tel Aviv f

Tel Aviv (a city in Israel)
Synonym: Tel Aviv-Yafo

Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Tel Aviv m (Cyrillic spelling Тел Авив)

Tel Aviv (a city in Israel)

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌtel aˈbib/ [ˌt̪el aˈβ̞iβ̞]
Syllabification: Tel A‧viv

Proper noun

Tel Aviv ?

Tel Aviv

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