galilee

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• /ˈɡælɪliː/
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Inherited from Middle English Galilee, from Old French Galilee, from Latin Galilaea, from Ancient Greek Γᾰλῑλαίᾱ (Gălīlaíā), from Hebrew גָּלִיל (galíl).

From late Middle English galilie, from Old French galilee, from Medieval Latin galilaea, from Latin Galilaea (“Galilee”). Possibly the allusion is to Galilee being an outlying region of Biblical Palestine.

73 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: Galilea — region of northern Israel
• Aghwan: 𐔲𐔰𐔾𐔼𐔾𐔴𐔰 (galilea) — region of northern Israel
• Aghwan: 𐔲𐔰𐔾𐔼𐕅𐔴𐔰 (galil'ea) — region of northern Israel
• Albanian: Galilea — region of northern Israel
• Arabic: الْجَلِيل (al-jalīl) — region of northern Israel
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܓܠܝܼܠܵܐ (glīla) — region of northern Israel
• Armenian: Գալիլեա (Galilea) — region of northern Israel
• Belarusian: Галіле́я (Haliljéja) — region of northern Israel
• Bulgarian: Галиле́я (Galiléja) — region of northern Israel
• Catalan: Galilea — region of northern Israel
• Cherokee: ᎨᎵᎵ (gelili) — region of northern Israel
• Chinese Mandarin: 加利利 (Jiālìlì) — region of northern Israel
• Chinese Mandarin: 加里肋亞 (Jiālǐlèiyà) — region of northern Israel
• Coptic: ⲅⲁⲗⲓⲗⲁⲓⲁ (galilaia) — region of northern Israel
• Czech: Galilea — region of northern Israel
• Danish: Galilæa — region of northern Israel
• Dutch: Galilea — region of northern Israel
• Esperanto: Galileo — region of northern Israel
• Estonian: Galilea — region of northern Israel
• Farefare: Galile — region of northern Israel
• Farefare: Galilea — region of northern Israel
• Finnish: Galilea — region of northern Israel
• French: Galilée — region of northern Israel
• Galician: Galilea — region of northern Israel
• Georgian: გალილეა (galilea) — region of northern Israel
• German: Galiläa — region of northern Israel
• Greek: Γαλιλαία (Galilaía) — region of northern Israel
• Ancient Greek: Γᾰλῑλαίᾱ (Gălīlaíā) — region of northern Israel
• Hawaiian: Galilaia — region of northern Israel
• Hebrew: הַגָּלִיל (ha-galíl) — region of northern Israel
• Hindi: गलील (galīl) — region of northern Israel
• Hungarian: Galilea — region of northern Israel
• Icelandic: Galílea — region of northern Israel
• Irish: An Ghailíl — region of northern Israel
• Italian: Galilea — region of northern Israel
• Japanese: ガリレヤ (Garireya) — region of northern Israel
• Kazakh: Ғалилея (Ğalileä) — region of northern Israel
• Korean: 갈릴래아 (Gallillaea) — region of northern Israel
• Lao: ຄາລີເລ (khā lī lē) — region of northern Israel
• Latin: Galīlaea — region of northern Israel
• Latvian: Galileja — region of northern Israel
• Lithuanian: Galilėja — region of northern Israel
• Luxembourgish: Galiläa — region of northern Israel
• Macedonian: Галилеја (Galileja) — region of northern Israel
• Malay: Galilea — region of northern Israel
• Māori: Karirī — region of northern Israel
• Navajo: Gálilii — region of northern Israel
• Nogai: Ялил (Yalil) — region of northern Israel
• Norwegian Bokmål: Galilea — region of northern Israel
• Norwegian Nynorsk: Galilea — region of northern Israel
• Occitan: Galilèa — region of northern Israel
• Plautdietsch: Galiläa — region of northern Israel
• Polish: Galilea — region of northern Israel
• Portuguese: Galileia — region of northern Israel
• Romanian: Galileea — region of northern Israel
• Russian: Галиле́я (Galiléja) — region of northern Israel
• Scottish Gaelic: Galile — region of northern Israel
• Serbo-Croatian: Галиле́ја — region of northern Israel
• Serbo-Croatian: Galiléja — region of northern Israel
• Shan: ၵႃႇလိလႄး (kàa lǐ láae) — region of northern Israel
• Slovak: Galilea — region of northern Israel
• Slovene: Galileja — region of northern Israel
• Spanish: Galilea — region of northern Israel
• Swedish: Galileen — region of northern Israel
• Thai: กาลิลี — region of northern Israel
• Turkish: Celile — region of northern Israel
• Ottoman Turkish: غالیله (ğālîlä) — region of northern Israel
• Ottoman Turkish: غالیلیا (ğālîleyā) — region of northern Israel
• Ukrainian: Галіле́я (Haliléja) — region of northern Israel
• Urdu: گَلِیل (galīl) — region of northern Israel
• Urum: Ғалилайа (Ğalilaya) — region of northern Israel
• Volapük: Galileyän — region of northern Israel
• Yiddish: גליל (golel) — region of northern Israel