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Nakba Day

Nakba Day proper noun: a Palestinian annual holiday on the 15th of May to commemorate the Nakba, the 1948 expulsion of Palestinians from their homes.

Proper noun

Nakba Day

  1. A Palestinian annual holiday on the 15th of May to commemorate the Nakba, the 1948 expulsion of Palestinians from their homes.
    • The US and UK are expected to stay away from the UN General Assembly’s first-ever commemoration of Nakba Day on May 15. Israel called on UN member states to shun the event held 75 years after Arab armies attacked the nascent Jewish state on that same day in 1948.2023 May 8, Lahav Harkov, Tovah Lazaroff, “UK and US to shun UN 'Nakba Day' event as Israel calls for boycott”, in The Jerusalem Post

Questions about Nakba Day

What does Nakba Day mean?
Nakba Day means a Palestinian annual holiday on the 15th of May to commemorate the Nakba, the 1948 expulsion of Palestinians from their homes.
What part of speech is Nakba Day?
Nakba Day is a proper noun.

Words near Nakba Day in the dictionary

  1. Nakayama
  2. Nakayamas
  3. Nakazawa
  4. Nakazawas
  5. nakba
  6. Nakba Day
  7. nakbas
  8. nake
  9. naked
  10. naked ape
  11. naked apes

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