Nakba


Nak·ba

N5007950 (năk′bə)n. The dispossession and expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in 1948 from land that became Israel upon its establishment as an independent state.
[Arabic nakba, calamity, disaster, the Nakba, from nakaba, to deviate, tilt and pour out, afflict with calamity, hurt; akin to Ge'ez nakaba, to bend, fold.]
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