Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Meaning

  1. A city in Israel that later merged with Jaffa to form Tel Aviv-Yafo.
  2. (broadly) A district in Israel.
  3. The municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo.
  4. The center of Tel Aviv-Yafo.

Synonyms

Tel Aviv-Yalo

Translations

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Τελ Αβίβ

Tel-Aviv-Jaffa

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Jaffa

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˌtɛl.əˈvɪv/
Etymology

From Hebrew תֵּל אָבִיב (tel 'avív), from the title of Nahum Sokolow's translation of Theodor Herzl's Altneuland (“The Old New Land”). From תֵּל (tél, “hill formed by ancient ruins”), symbolizing the Old, and אָבִיב ('avív, “spring”), symbolizing the New.

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