nakba

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈnɑːkbə/
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Borrowed from Arabic نَكْبَة (nakba, “disaster, catastrophe”); see further at Nakba.

Borrowed from Arabic النَّكْبَة (an-nakba, “the catastrophe, the disaster”), from نَكَبَ (nakaba, “to make miserable”).

50 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: Nakba — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Arabic: نَكْبَة (nakba) — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Arabic: النَّكْبَة (an-nakba) — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Arabic: النكبه (in-nakba) — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Armenian: Նաքբա (Nakʻba) — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Azerbaijani: Nakba — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Basque: Nakba — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Belarusian: на́кба (nákba) — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Bengali: নকবা (nokba) — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Bengali: নাকবা (nakba) — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Catalan: Nakba — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Danish: Nakba — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Dutch: Nakba — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Estonian: Nakbah — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Finnish: Nakba — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• French: nakba — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• German: Nakba — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Greek: νάκμπα (nákmpa) — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Hebrew: הנכבה (ha-nákba) — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Hindi: नक्बा (nakbā) — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Hindi: नक्बत (nakbat) — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Hungarian: Nakba — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Icelandic: nakba — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Icelandic: áfallið mikl — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Indonesian: Nakba — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Irish: Al-Nakba — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Italian: nakba — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Japanese: ナクバ (nakuba) — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Korean: 나크바 (nakeuba) — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Malay: Nakba — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Norwegian Bokmål: Nakba — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Dari: نَکْبَت (nakbat) — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Iranian Persian: نَکْبَت (nakbat) — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Polish: Nakba — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Portuguese: nakba — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Romanian: Nakba — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Romanian: An-Nakba — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Russian: на́кба (nákba) — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Slovene: Nakba — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Spanish: nakba — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Swedish: Nakba — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Tagalog: Nakba — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Tajik: накбат (nakbat) — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Thai: นักบะห์ — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Turkish: Nakba — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Ukrainian: на́кба (nákba) — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Urdu: نَکْبَت (nakbat) — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Vietnamese: Nakba — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Welsh: al Nakba — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs
• Welsh: al Naqba — dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs