arafat

n. family name (Arabic); Yassir Arafat (1929-2004), Palestinian leader and politician, chairman of the P.L.O., winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 with Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres

Arafat is a surname or given name, and may refer to:Yasser Arafat (1929-2004)Arafat Waheed Khan (born 1981), 2006 transatlantic aircraft terrorist plot suspectFathi Arafat (1933-2004), Palestinian physicianMoussa Arafat (circa 1940-2005), cousin of Yasser ArafatRaed Arafat (born 1964), Romanian physicianSuha Arafat (born 1963), widow of Yasser ArafatYasir Arafat (cricketer) (born 1982), Pakistani cricketer
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Noun
1. Palestinian statesman who is chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (born in 1929)
(synonym) Yasser Arafat
(hypernym) statesman, solon, national leader

n. Arafat, Yassir Arafat (1929-2004), Palestinian leader and politician; (Arabic) family name

n. Arafat, Yassir Arafat (born 1929), Palestinian leader and politician, chairman of the P.L.O.; president of the Palestinian Authority, one of the founders of the Fatah movement (1929-2004); family name (Arabic)