English
Nakba
Nakba comes from Arabic النَّكْبَة ‘the catastrophe, the disaster’.
- Arabicc. 500–presentالنَّكْبَةan-nakba‘the catastrophe, the disaster’
- Englishearliest quotation 1992Nakba
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Arabicc. 500–presentالنَّكْبَةan-nakba‘the catastrophe, the disaster’
- Englishearliest quotation 1992Nakba
Earliest quotation: 1992, Philip Mattar, An Overview and Assessment: “That al-Husayni [Amin al-Husseini]'s political career has not received…”
Every English word from Arabic النَّكْبَة
Today it means
name The dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs occuring since the 1948 Palestine war and establishment of the State of Israel.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Arabic النَّكْبَة / Nakba