Palestine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæləˌstaɪn/
ipa: /ˈpæləˌstiːn/
Forms: form: Palæstine
Etymology: From Middle English Palestyne, from Old English Palestina, from Latin Palaestīna (“Roman province of Palestine”), from Ancient Greek Παλαιστίνη (Palaistínē, “Philistia and the surrounding region”), from Hebrew פְּלֶשֶׁת (p'léshet, “Philistia, land of the Philistines”). The term P-l-s-t or P-r-s-t, found in five Ancient Egyptian inscriptions (beginning with one at Medinet Habu from circa 1170 BCE and ending with Padiiset's Statue inscription from circa 900-850 BCE) as the name of a people near Egypt, is traditionally taken to be cognate. Seven Assyrian inscriptions contain the word "Palas(h)tu" or "Pilistu", which is usually also taken to be cognate.
Senses: examples: text: Jews and Israel are not synonymous; nor is support for Palestine synonymous with anti-Semitism; nor is questioning the orthodoxy of the Republican party, which the majority of us do with relish, an insult to Jewry.
ref: 2019 July 17, Talia Levin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ:
glosses: A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East; the State of Palestine; the homeland of the Palestinian people.
glosses: A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East; the State of Palestine; the homeland of the Palestinian people.
The West Bank and Gaza Strip.
qualifier: sometimes strictly
examples: text: Most Zionists hoped for a state of their own, but early in the 20th century, writers like Hillel Solotaroff and Chaim Zhitlowsky, both Yiddish-speaking immigrant intellectuals in New York, imagined another alternative: a federation of self-governing anarchist communes in Palestine that would defend Jewish life without relying on state power.
ref: 2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents, number Summer 2019:
qualifier: historical or politically charged
glosses: The region in Western Asia in the Middle East between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
glosses: A British colonial entity administering approximately the lands mentioned in definition 1.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
glosses: The British League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, of which this region was a part (the remainder being Transjordan, which covered approximately the lands of the modern Kingdom (originally Emirate) of Jordan).
glosses: Any of four Ancient Roman and Byzantine provinces in the eastern Mediterranean: Syria Palaestina, Palaestina Prima, Palaestina Secunda and Palaestina Salutaris.
examples: text: Gad, in ancient geography, a district of Transjordan Palestine, situated between Gilead and the kingdom of Bashan on the north, and that of the Amorites to the south, having the Jordan to the west, and bounded by various nations on the east, so called from the tribe of that name.
ref: 1829, A London Encyclopaedia […], volume IX, London: Thomas Tegg, page 709, column 1:
glosses: The Biblical Land of Israel, roughly corresponding to the northern part of modern-day Israel proper, the West Bank, and northwest Jordan.
raw_tags: since 1920
examples: text: In the west, moreover, as we have seen, he crushed Damascus, and forced Phenicia, Edom, the kingdom of Israel, and "Palestine" or Philistia, to continue the tribute they had agreed to pay Shalmaneser II.
ref: 1882, [John] Cunningham Geikie, Hours With the Bible, or, The Scriptures in the Light of Modern Discovery and Knowledge, third edition, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 184:
glosses: Philistia, a region in the Levant inhabited by the ancient Philistines.
raw_tags: since 1920
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in St. Francis County, Arkansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A community in Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Crawford County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Woodford County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Brookville Township, Franklin County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Harrison Township, Kosciusko County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An extinct town in Shawswick Township, Lawrence County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Story County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Cooper County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Darke County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Anderson County, Texas, United States.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wirt County, West Virginia.
glosses: A community in the City of Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A village in Over Wallop parish, Test Valley district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU2640).
Synonyms: sense: the region
word: Canaan
sense: the region
word: the Holy Land
sense: the region
word: Israel
sense: the region
word: the Land of Israel
sense: Roman or Byzantine province
word: Palaestina
topics: country
region
location
word: State of Palestine
topics: country
region
location
word: Falasteen
Derived terms: word: Eastern Palestine
english: Ohio
translation: Ohio
word: East Palestine
word: Fakestine
word: inter-Palestine
word: Isratine
word: Little Palestine
word: New Palestine
word: Palestinian
word: Palestinism
word: Palestino-
word: Palestinology
word: Palestinophile
word: Syria-Palestine
word: Western Palestine
word: West Palestine
Related terms: Palestine sunbird
Palestinianisation
Palestinianism
Palestinianist
Palestinianness
Palestinian Sign Language
Philistine
un-Palestinian
Levant
Zion
Judea