Arafat

¹

[ar-uh-fat, ahr-uh-faht]

noun

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

ʿArafat

²

[ahr-uh-fat, ar-uh-fat]

noun

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

Arafat

¹

/ 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

Arafat

²

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