Tel Aviv
/ˌtɛl.əˈvɪv/
Tel Aviv proper noun: a city in Israel that later merged with Jaffa to form Tel Aviv-Yafo.
Proper noun
Tel Aviv
- A city in Israel that later merged with Jaffa to form Tel Aviv-Yafo.
- Israel intercepted a missile fired by Hezbollah near Tel Aviv on Wednesday, an unprecedented attack by the militant group that reached deep into the country’s commercial heartlands and marked a new escalatory step in the conflict between the two sides.2024 September 25, Irene Nasser, Dana Karni, Helen Regan, Sophie Tanno, “Israel intercepts Hezbollah ballistic missile near Tel Aviv in first such attack”, in CNN, archived from the original on 01...
- A district in Israel.
- Synonyms:
- Tel Aviv District
- The municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo.
- The center of Tel Aviv-Yafo.
Tel Aviv meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
Tel Aviv in Hindi
- city in Israel
- तेल अवीव tel avīv
Tel Aviv in Tamil
- city in Israel
- டெல் அவீவ் ṭel avīv
Tel Aviv in Marathi
- city in Israel
- तेल अवीव tel avīv
Tel Aviv in Urdu
- city in Israel
- تَل اَبِیب tal abīb
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- Tel Aviv in Bengali
- তেল আভিভ tel abhibh
- Tel Aviv in Malayalam
- ടെല് അവീവ് ṭel avīvŭ
- Tel Aviv in Tagalog
- Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Tel Aviv in Arabic
- تَلّ أَبِيب tall ʔabīb, تَلّ أَبِيب يَافَا tall ʔabīb yāfā
- Tel Aviv in Indonesian
- Tel Aviv
- Tel Aviv in Persian
- تلآویو tel-âviv
- Tel Aviv in Thai
- เทลอาวีฟ
- Tel Aviv in Vietnamese
- Ten A-víp, Đồi Xuân
Synonyms of Tel Aviv
Forms of Tel Aviv
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Origin of Tel Aviv
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.
Words formed from Tel Aviv
Words that rhyme with Tel Aviv
Questions about Tel Aviv
- What does Tel Aviv mean?
- Tel Aviv means a city in Israel that later merged with Jaffa to form Tel Aviv-Yafo.
- What is Tel Aviv in Hindi?
- Tel Aviv in Hindi is तेल अवीव (tel avīv). See Tel Aviv meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Tel Aviv?
- Tel Aviv is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Tel Aviv?
- Tel Aviv is pronounced /ˌtɛl.əˈvɪv/.
Words near Tel Aviv in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tel Aviv (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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