# Παλαιστίνη
## Ancient Greek
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pa.lai̯s.tǐː.nɛː/ → /pa.lɛsˈti.ni/ → /pa.lesˈti.ni/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /pa.lai̯s.tǐː.nɛː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /pa.lɛsˈti.ne̝/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /pa.lɛsˈti.ni/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /pa.lesˈti.ni/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /pa.lesˈti.ni/

### Proper noun

Παλαιστῑ́νη • (Palaistī́nē) f (genitive Παλαιστῑ́νης); first declension
* Palestine; the Land of Israel; Syria Palaestina
** 340 BCE, Aristotle, chapter 2, in Meteorologika:εἰ δ’ ἔστιν ὥσπερ μυθολογοῦσί τινες ἐν Παλαιστίνῃ τοιαύτη λίμνη, εἰς ἣν ἐάν τις ἐμβάλῃ συνδήσας ἄνθρωπον ἢ ὑποζύγιον ἐπιπλεῖν καὶ οὐ καταδύεσθαι κατὰ τοῦ ὕδατος, μαρτύριον ἂν εἴη τι τοῖς εἰρημένοις· λέγουσι γὰρ πικρὰν οὕτως εἶναι τὴν λίμνην καὶ ἁλμυρὰν ὥστε μηδένα ἰχθὺν ἐγγίγνεσθαι, τὰ δὲ ἱμάτια ῥύπτειν, ἐάν τις διασείσῃ βρέξας.ei d’ éstin hṓsper muthologoûsí tines en Palaistínēi toiaútē límnē, eis hḕn eán tis embálēi sundḗsas ánthrōpon ḕ hupozúgion epipleîn kaì ou katadúesthai katà toû húdatos, martúrion àn eíē ti toîs eirēménois; légousi gàr pikràn hoútōs eînai tḕn límnēn kaì halmuràn hṓste mēdéna ikhthùn engígnesthai, tà dè himátia rhúptein, eán tis diaseísēi bréxas.Again if, as is fabled, there is a lake in Palestine, such that if you bind a man or beast and throw it in it floats and does not sink, this would bear out what we have said. They say that this lake is so bitter and salt that no fish live in it and that if you soak clothes in it and shake them it cleans them.

#### Derived terms

* Παλαιστῑνοί (Palaistīnoí)
* Παλαιστῑνός (Palaistīnós)
* Παλαιστῖνος (Palaistînos)

#### Descendants

* Greek: Παλαιστίνη (Palaistíni)
* → Arabic: فِلَسْطِين (filasṭīn)
** Hijazi Arabic: فَلَسْطِين (falasṭīn), فِلِسْطِين (filisṭīn)
** Moroccan Arabic: فلسطين (filisṭīn)
** South Levantine Arabic: فلسطين (falasṭīn)
*** → Hebrew: פלסטין (falastín)
** → Azerbaijani: Fələstin
** → Ottoman Turkish: فلسطین, فلستین (felestin)
*** Turkish: Filistin
** → Persian: فلسطین
*** → Urdu: فلسطین (filastīn)
* → Armenian: Պաղեստին (Paġestin)
* → Basque: Palestina
* → Belarusian: Палестына (Paljestyna)
* → Bulgarian: Палестина (Palestina)
* → Classical Syriac: ܦܠܣܛܝܢ (palasṭīn)
* → Czech: Palestina
* → Danish: Palæstina
* → Georgian: პალესტინა (ṗalesṭina)
* → German: Palästina
* → Pennsylvania German: Baaleschdi
* → Irish: An Phalaistín
* → Indonesian: Palestina
* → Latin: Palaestina (see there for further descendants)
* → Macedonian: Палестина (Palestina)
* → Norwegian: Palestina
* → Polish: Palestyna
* → Russian: Палестина (Palestina)
* → Serbo-Croatian: Палестина, Palestina
* → Slovak: Palestína f
* → Slovene: Palestina
* → Swedish: Palestina
* → Thai: ปาเลสไตน์ (bpaa-lées-dtaai)
* → Ukrainian: Палестина (Palestyna)
* → Welsh: Palesteina
* → Yiddish: פּאַלעסטינע (palestine)

### References

* Παλαιστίνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,019

## Greek
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pa.leˈsti.ni/

### Proper noun

Παλαιστίνη • (Palaistíni) f
* Palestine (West Bank and Gaza Strip)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* Παλαιστίνη on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{el}$