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  Arafat

  noun

  Yasir 1929–2004, Palestinian leader: head of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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  arafat

  noun

  a hill 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Mecca, in Saudi Arabia: site of Muslim pilgrimages.

Arafat

¹ American  

[ar-uh-fat, ahr-uh-faht] / ˈær əˌfæt, ˈɑr əˌfɑt /

noun

1. Yasir 1929–2004, Palestinian leader: head of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

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arafat ² American  

[ahr-uh-fat, ar-uh-fat] / ˌɑr əˈfæt, ˈær əˌfæt /

noun

1. a hill 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Mecca, in Saudi Arabia: site of Muslim pilgrimages.

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Arafat ¹ British  

/ ˈærəfæt /

noun

1. Also called: Jabal ar Rahm.  a hill in W Saudi Arabia, near Mecca: a sacred site of Islam, visited by pilgrims performing the hajj

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Arafat ² British  

noun

1. Yasser (ˈjæsə). 1929–2004, Palestinian leader; cofounder of Al Fatah (1956), leader from 1968 of the Palestine Liberation Organization, president of the Palestinian National Authority from 1996: signed a peace agreement with Israel (1993); Nobel peace prize 1994 with Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin

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Arafat

Arafat was studying business administration at Gaza's Al-Azhar University before the war forced him to stop.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

Arafat is one of Bangladesh's more than 120,000 suspected and confirmed measles cases since cases spiked in mid-March, according to government figures.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Doctors diagnosed Arafat with pneumonia and heart failure, both complications of measles.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

"Our measures at this time are purely preventive," Raed Arafat, head of the Department of Emergency Situations said in a press conference.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

The next day we set out after sunrise toward Mount Arafat, thousands of us, crying in unison: “Labbayka! Labbayka!” and “Allah Akbar!”

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey