Type Country & Region
Usage Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Romanian, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Afrikaans, Russian, Czech, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Indonesian, Tagalog, Hebrew
Scripts Палестина(Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian) פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה(Hebrew)
Pronounced Pron. /pa.le.ˈsti.na/(Italian) /pa.les.ˈti.na/(Spanish) /pɐ.lɨʃ.ˈti.nɐ/(European Portuguese) /pa.les.ˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/(Brazilian Portuguese) /pə.lʲɪ.ˈsʲtʲi.nə/(Russian) /pa.lɛ.ˈstɪ.na/(Czech) [key·simplify]
Meaning & History
Form of Palestine in several languages. In modern Hebrew this refers to the region, with פָלַסְטִין (Falastin) used for the country.
Related Names
VariantFalastin(Hebrew)
Other Languages & CulturesPalaistine(Ancient Greek) Palaestina(Ancient Roman) Filastin(Arabic) Philistia(Biblical) Peleshet(Biblical Hebrew) Palæstina(Danish) Palestine, Philistia(English) Palestine(French) Palästina(German) Palaistini(Greek) Filistin(Hindi) Palestína(Icelandic) Felestin(Persian) Palestyna(Polish) Palestína(Slovak) Filistin(Turkish) Palestyna(Ukrainian) Filistin(Urdu)
Same SpellingPalestína
User SubmissionPalestīna