Palestinian

• Palæstinian (archaic)
• Palestinean

From Palestine +‎ -ian.

• IPA^(key): /pæl.əˈstɪn.i.ən/

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• Rhymes: -ɪniən

Palestinian (comparative more Palestinian, superlative most Palestinian)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Palestine or the Palestinian people.
   • 2007 December 30, Fayeq S. Oweis, Encyclopedia of Arab American Artists, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 143:

     Halaby […] accompanied the curators on their trip through the Middle East to collect the artwork of over 20 Palestinian artists.

   • 2021 April 13, Shandra Woworuntu, Taste of Freedom: Recipes for Resilience, Balboa Press, →ISBN:

     Here, Rose shares her Palestinian grandmother's delicious rice and lamb recipe. Her grandmother would make this as a family meal.

• Prior to 1948, "Palestinian" was used in reference to the whole area known at that time as Palestine before the establishment of the State of Israel. The Arab people now often called simply "Palestinian(s)" were specifically "Palestinian Arab(s)", while what would later become Israel's Jewish population were called "Palestinian Jews". (Some people, especially anti-Zionists, often refer to the Old Yishuv and their descendants as "Palestinian Jews", but some may find this term erroneous or even offensive.) Some organizations and institutions from the British Mandate referred to as "Palestinian" were not necessarily specifically/majority Arab, with some even being specifically/majority Jewish, such as the Palestinian Orchestra; for example, today’s English‐language Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post was called The Palestine Post under the British Mandate of Palestine, and the Israel national football team was originally called the "Mandatory Palestine national football team".

• Philistine (which see for more)

Palestinian (plural Palestinians)

1. An inhabitant of Palestine or someone descending from that area.
   • 985, شمس الدين المقدسي [Shams al-Din al-Maqdisi], أحسن التقاسيم في معرفة الأقاليم [The Soundest Divisions in Understanding the Regions], published 1906, page 440, lines 8-9; quoted and translated into English in Zakariyeh Mohammed, “Maqdisi: An 11th Century Palestinian Consciousness”, in Jerusalem Quarterly, number 22/23, Institute for Palestine Studies, 2005, page 89:

     The master stonecutter asked me: Are you Egyptian?
     I said: No, I am Palestinian.

     [original: فقال لي الأستاذ أنت مصري قلت لا بل فلسطيني]

   • 2011, Sarah Irving, Palestine, Bradt Travel Guides, →ISBN, page 24:

     In 2008 the Rozana Association […] instituted a Maftoul Festival in Bir Zeit, near Ramallah, celebrating the many tasty ways in which Palestinians cook maftoul, or couscous.

   • 2011 [1977 September 24], Jimmy Carter, White House Diary‎^[1], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 107:

     We got a message back from Israel that they were withdrawing their troops immediately from Lebanon. We are notifying the Syrians and the Lebanese and demanding that they mutually participate in a cease-fire and withdrawal of the Palestinians back ten kilometers from the Israeli borders.

   • 2025 May 14, “The Palestinians: Overview, Aid, and U.S. Policy Issues”, in congress.gov:

     About 3 million Palestinians live in the West Bank, plus an estimated 2.1 million in Gaza. Around 98% are Sunni Muslim, with a small Christian minority. Another estimated 2 million Palestinians live in Israel as citizens. Of the Palestinians living in the Middle East, about 5.9 million are registered refugees (in the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria) whose claims to land in present-day Israel constitute a major issue of Israeli-Palestinian dispute.

• Pal, Pally (informal)
• Filastini (chiefly used by Muslims and Arabs)
• Falestinian, Filastinian (rare, chiefly used by Muslims and Arabs)
• Fakestinian, Palestinkian (derogatory and hence offensive)
• Palesimian (offensive)

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