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- Arabic · calque ofالضِّفَّة الْغَرْبِيَّة
- English todayWest Bank
* (Sense 1) Calque of Arabic الضِّفَّة الْغَرْبِيَّة (aḍ-ḍiffa(t) al-ḡarbiyya, literally “the west bank”), so called due to its location relative to the Jordan River. * (Sense 2) From its location relative to the Mississippi River (and not New Orleans, which it is south of).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.