intifada

See also: intifadą

English

Alternative forms

• intefadah, intifadah, Intifada

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اِنْتِفَاضَة (intifāḍa, “shaking off, uprising, insurrection”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪntɪˈfɑːdə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

intifada (plural intifadas)

1. An insurrection; a usually violent attempt to take control of a government.
2. An uprising, resistant struggle, or rebellious protest.
   1. (often capitalized, specifically) The Palestinian uprisings against Israel.
      • 2009, Sumantra Bose, Contested lands, →ISBN, page 262:

        Indeed, violence broke out in the occupied territories in mid-May 2000 as Palestinians observed the anniversary of the 1948 nakba—these disturbances paled in comparison to the second intifada, which erupted in the autumn.

      • 2021 May 11, Thomas L. Friedman, “Israelis, Palestinians and Their Neighbors Worry: Is This the Big One?”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

        But unlike the Intifadas that began in 1987 and 2000, when Israel had someone to call to try to turn it off, there is no Palestinian on the other end of the phone this time […]

Derived terms

• globalize the intifada

Translations

intifada

• Arabic: اِنْتِفَاضَة f (intifāḍa)
• Bengali: ইন্তিফাদা (bn) (intifada)
• Catalan: intifada (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (巴勒斯坦...) 起義 / 起义 (zh) (qǐyì), 大起義 / 大起义 (dà qǐyì)

• Czech: intifáda (cs) f
• Finnish: intifada
• French: intifada (fr) f
• German: Intifada (de) f
• Greek: ιντιφάντα f (intifánta)
• Hebrew: אִנְתִּיפָדָה f (intifáda)
• Hindi: इंतिफ़ादा m (intifādā)
• Japanese: インティファーダ (intifāda)
• Korean: 인티파다 (intipada)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: intifade (ku)

• Malay: intifadah
• Pashto: انتفاضه f (intifāza)
• Persian: اِنْتِفَاضَه (fa) (intifāza / entefâze)
• Polish: intifada (pl) f
• Portuguese: intifada (pt) f
• Russian: интифа́да (ru) f (intifáda)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: интифа́да f

  Latin: intifáda (sh) f

• Spanish: intifada f
• Swedish: intifada (sv) c
• Tajik: интифоза (intifoza)
• Turkish: intifada (tr), intifaza
• Urdu: اِنْتِفاضَہ m (intifāza)
• Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: אינטיפֿאַדע f (intifade)

See also

• intifadist

Further reading

• intifada on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اِنْتِفَاضَة (intifāḍa, “shaking off, uprising, insurrection”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in.ti.fa.da/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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Noun

intifada f (plural intifadas)

1. intifada

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اِنْتِفَاضَة (intifāḍa, “shaking off, uprising, insurrection”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in.tiˈfa.da/
• Rhymes: -ada
• Hyphenation: in‧ti‧fà‧da

Noun

intifada f (plural intifade)

1. intifada

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اِنْتِفَاضَة (intifāḍa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in.tiˈfa.da/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: in‧ti‧fa‧da

Noun

intifada f

1. (Islam, politics) intifada (uprising, resistant struggle or rebellious protest, especially the Palestinian uprisings against Israel)

   Hypernyms: insurekcja, powstanie

Declension

Declension of intifada

	singular	plural
nominative	intifada	intifady
genitive	intifady	intifad
dative	intifadzie	intifadom
accusative	intifadę	intifady
instrumental	intifadą	intifadami
locative	intifadzie	intifadach
vocative	intifado	intifady

Further reading

• “intifada”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “intifada”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اِنْتِفَاضَة (intifāḍa, “shaking off, uprising, insurrection”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.t͡ʃiˈfa.dɐ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tiˈfa.dɐ/ [ĩ.tiˈfa.ðɐ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tiˈfa.dɐ/ [ĩ.tiˈfa.ðɐ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tiˈfa.dɐ/

Noun

intifada f (plural intifadas)

1. intifada (insurrection by Palestinians against Israel)

Further reading

• “intifada”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اِنْتِفَاضَة (intifāḍa, “shaking off, uprising, insurrection”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /intiˈfada/ [ĩn̪.t̪iˈfa.ð̞a]

• Audio (Peru):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: in‧ti‧fa‧da

Noun

intifada f (plural intifadas)

1. intifada (insurrection by Palestinians against Israel)

Further reading

• “intifada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025