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Arafat
1[ ar-uh-fat, ahr-uh-faht ]
noun
- Ya·sir [yah, -ser, -sir, yas, -er], 1929–2004, Palestinian leader: head of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
ʿArafat
2[ ahr-uh-fat, ar-uh-fat ]
noun
- a hill 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Mecca, in Saudi Arabia: site of Muslim pilgrimages.
Arafat
1/ ˈærəfæt /
noun
- a hill in W Saudi Arabia, near Mecca: a sacred site of Islam, visited by pilgrims performing the hajj Also calledJabal ar Rahm
Arafat
2noun
- ArafatYasser19292004MPalestinianPOLITICS: statesman 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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