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 (The region in Western Asia in the Middle East between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River)
2. Palestine (A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East; the State of Palestine; the homeland of the Palestinian people)

Descendants

• Turkish: Filistin

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فلسطین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3], Vienna, column 3545
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فلسطین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1395

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فِلَسْطِين (filasṭīn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [fa.las.ˈtiːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [fä.läs.t̪ʰíːn]

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

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [fe.les.t̪ʰíːn]

• (Tajik, formal) 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 (The region in Western Asia in the Middle East between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River)
2. Palestine (A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East; the State of Palestine; the homeland of the Palestinian people)

Related terms

• فلسطینی (felestini)

Urdu

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فلسطین

شام

لبنان

فلسطین

اسرائیل

اردن

مصر

سعودی عرب

عراق

ترکی

قبرص

بحیرہ روم

بحیرہ
احمر

درائے
نیل

درائے
فرات

Picture dictionary

فلسطین

ترکی

قبرص

لبنان

شام

فلسطین

اسرائیل

اُردن

مصر

کردستان

عراق

کویت

ایران

سعودی
عرب

بحرین

قطر

متحدہ عرب امارات

عمان

یمن

شام

شام

اسرائیل

اسرائیل

گلیل

گلیل

ہندوستان

ہندوستان

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/

• Audio (Pakistan):

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• Rhymes: -iːn
• Hyphenation: فِ‧لِسْ‧طِین

Proper noun

فِلِسْطِین • (filistīn) m (Hindi spelling फ़िलिस्तीन)

1. Palestine (The region in Western Asia in the Middle East between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River)
2. Palestine (A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East; the State of Palestine; the homeland of the Palestinian people)

See also

• (Middle East) مَشْرِقِ وُسْطیٰ (maśriq-i vustā); سَعُودی عَرَب (sa'ūdī 'arab), مِصْر (misr) عِراق ('irāq), اِیران (īrān), اُرْدُن (urdun), شام (śām), تُرْکِیَہ (turkiya), قِبْرِص (qibris) فِلِسْطِین (filistīn) اِسْرائِیل (isrāīl) لِبْنان (libnān) یَمَن (yaman) عُمان ('umān) مُتَّحِدَہ عَرَب اِمارات (muttahida 'arab imārāt) قَطَر (qatar) بَحْرِین (bahrīn) کُوَیت (kuvait) ^{(Category: ur:Middle East)}