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falasteen

/fələˈstiːn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
falas-teen
IPA
/fələˈstiːn/
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Palestine (a country in Western Asia)

Etymology

Transliteration of South Levantine Arabic فلسطين (falasṭīn), from Arabic فِلَسْطِين (filasṭīn), from Ancient Greek Παλαιστίνη (Palaistínē). Doublet of Palestine and Philistine.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: فِلَسْطِين, Παλαιστίνη

Inflected Forms

Falastin (alternative) Filasteen (alternative) Filastin (alternative) Filistin (alternative)

Derived Forms

Balasteen Falasteeni

Rhymes With

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Questions

How do you pronounce falasteen?
The recorded pronunciation is /fələˈstiːn/.
What does falasteen mean?
Palestine (a country in Western Asia)
Where does falasteen come from?
It is traced to Arabic.

How to pronounce falasteen

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