intifada

• intefadah, intifadah, Intifada

Borrowed from Arabic اِنْتِفَاضَة (intifāḍa, “shaking off, uprising, insurrection”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪntɪˈfɑːdə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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intifada (plural intifadas)

1. An insurrection; a usually violent attempt to take control of a government.
2. An uprising, resistant struggle, or rebellious protest.
   1. (often capitalized) The Palestinian uprisings against Israel.
      • 2009, Sumantra Bose, Contested lands, →ISBN, page 262:

        Indeed, violence broke out in the occupied territories in mid-May 2000 as Palestinians observed the anniversary of the 1948 nakba—these disturbances paled in comparison to the second intifada, which erupted in the autumn.

      • 2021 May 11, Thomas L. Friedman, “Israelis, Palestinians and Their Neighbors Worry: Is This the Big One?”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

        But unlike the Intifadas that began in 1987 and 2000, when Israel had someone to call to try to turn it off, there is no Palestinian on the other end of the phone this time […]

• intifadist

• intifada on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Arabic اِنْتِفَاضَة (intifāḍa, “shaking off, uprising, insurrection”).

• IPA^(key): /in.ti.fa.da/

intifada f (plural intifadas)

1. intifada

Borrowed from Arabic اِنْتِفَاضَة (intifāḍa, “shaking off, uprising, insurrection”).

• IPA^(key): /in.tiˈfa.da/
• Rhymes: -ada
• Hyphenation: in‧ti‧fà‧da

intifada f (plural intifade)

1. intifada

Borrowed from Arabic اِنْتِفَاضَة (intifāḍa).

• IPA^(key): /in.tiˈfa.da/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: in‧ti‧fa‧da

intifada f

1. (Islam, politics) intifada (uprising, resistant struggle or rebellious protest, especially the Palestinian uprisings against Israel)

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• intifada in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• intifada in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Arabic اِنْتِفَاضَة (intifāḍa, “shaking off, uprising, insurrection”).

intifada f (plural intifadas)

1. intifada (insurrection by Palestinians against Israel)

Borrowed from Arabic اِنْتِفَاضَة (intifāḍa, “shaking off, uprising, insurrection”).

• IPA^(key): /intiˈfada/ [ĩn̪.t̪iˈfa.ð̞a]

• Audio (Peru):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: in‧ti‧fa‧da

intifada f (plural intifadas)

1. intifada (insurrection by Palestinians against Israel)

• “intifada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024