al-fatah

Questions about al-fatah

What does al-fatah mean?

al-fatah means "a Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a Palestinian state; during the 1960s and 1970s trained terrorist and insurgent groups".

How many syllables are in al-fatah?

al-fatah has 3 syllables and divides as al--fa-tah under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for al-fatah?

Close synonyms include Fatah, al-Asifa. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is al-fatah a common word?

al-fatah is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.