Galilee

See also: galilee and Galilée

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡælɪliː/

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Proper noun

Galilee

2. A mountainous geographic region in northern Israel.
   • 2024 June 6, Marta Vidal, quoting Saed Shomaly, “‘Sometimes I wonder if I’ll come back’: Palestinian birdwatchers defy danger to scan the skies”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Last spring I organised a race for birdwatchers in Jenin, and we had 21 Palestinians participating. They came from as far as the Naqab desert and the Galilee.

3. The Sea of Galilee.
4. A village in Narragansett, Rhode Island.

Translations

region of northern Israel

• Afrikaans: Galilea
• Aghwan: 𐔲𐔰𐔾𐔼𐔾𐔴𐔰 (galilea), 𐔲𐔰𐔾𐔼𐕅𐔴𐔰 (galil'ea)
• Albanian: Galilea
• Arabic: الْجَلِيل f (al-jalīl)
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܓܠܝܼܠܵܐ f (glīla)

• Armenian: Գալիլեա (Galilea)
• Belarusian: Галіле́я f (Haliljéja)
• Bulgarian: Галиле́я f (Galiléja)
• Catalan: Galilea f
• Cherokee: ᎨᎵᎵ (gelili)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加利利 (zh) (Jiālìlì), 加里肋亞 (zh) (Jiālǐlèiyà)

• Coptic: ⲅⲁⲗⲓⲗⲁⲓⲁ (galilaia)
• Czech: Galilea (cs) f
• Danish: Galilæa
• Dutch: Galilea (nl)
• Esperanto: Galileo
• Estonian: Galilea
• Farefare: Galile, Galilea
• Finnish: Galilea (fi)
• French: Galilée (fr) f
• Galician: Galilea (gl) f
• Georgian: გალილეა (galilea)
• German: Galiläa (de) n
• Greek: Γαλιλαία (el) f (Galilaía)

  Ancient Greek: Γᾰλῑλαίᾱ f (Gălīlaíā)

• Hawaiian: Galilaia
• Hebrew: הַגָּלִיל (he) (ha-galíl)
• Hindi: गलील m (galīl)
• Hungarian: Galilea (hu)
• Icelandic: Galílea f
• Irish: An Ghailíl f
• Italian: Galilea (it) f
• Japanese: ガリレヤ (Garireya)
• Kazakh: Ғалилея (Ğalileä)
• Korean: 갈릴래아 (Gallillaea)
• Lao: ຄາລີເລ (khā lī lē)
• Latin: Galīlaea f
• Latvian: Galileja f
• Lithuanian: Galilėja f
• Luxembourgish: Galiläa
• Macedonian: Галилеја f (Galileja)
• Malay: Galilea (Christianity)
• Māori: Karirī
• Navajo: Gálilii
• Nogai: Ялил (Yalil)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Galilea f

  Nynorsk: Galilea f

• Occitan: Galilèa f
• Plautdietsch: Galiläa
• Polish: Galilea (pl) f
• Portuguese: Galileia (pt) f
• Romanian: Galileea f
• Russian: Галиле́я (ru) f (Galiléja)
• Scottish Gaelic: Galile m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Галиле́ја f

  Latin: Galiléja f

• Shan: ၵႃႇလိလႄး (kàa lǐ láae)
• Slovak: Galilea f
• Slovene: Galileja f
• Spanish: Galilea (es) f
• Swedish: Galileen
• Thai: กาลิลี (th)
• Turkish: Celile

  Ottoman Turkish: غالیله (ğālîlä), غالیلیا (ğālîleyā)

• Ukrainian: Галіле́я f (Haliléja)
• Urdu: گَلِیل m (galīl)
• Urum: Ғалилайа (Ğalilaya)
• Volapük: Galileyän
• Yiddish: גליל m (golel)

Middle English

Proper noun

Galilee

1. Galilee (a mountainous geographic region in northern Israel)
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[2], published c. 1410, Matheu 4:23, folio 1, verso, column 1, lines 13–17; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     and Iḣc ȝede aboute al galilee techynge in þe ſynagogıs of hem · ⁊ pꝛechynge þe goſpel of þe kyngdom ⁊ heelynge eùy langoꝛe ⁊ ech ſıkeneſſe among þe puple /

     And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in the synagogues of them, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every languor and each sickness among the people.[3]

Middle French

Etymology

From Latin Galilaea.

Proper noun

Galilee f

1. Galilee (a mountainous geographic region in northern Israel)

Descendants

• French: Galilée