Fatah Definition
fətä, fätə
noun
A militant, nationalist Palestinian political faction opposed to the state of Israel.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
- al-Asifa
- al-Fatah
pronoun
A major Palestinian political party and the largest faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
Wiktionary
Origin of Fatah
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From Arabic فتح (fataḥ), a reverse acronym (meaning literally ‘opening’) for حركة التحرير الوطني الفلسطيني (ḥarakat al-taḥrīr al-waṭanī al-filasṭīnī, “Liberation Organization of the Palestinian Nation”).
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