Definition of nakba:
(n) :
In Arab contexts: a catastrophe; a grave setback.
(n) :
(politics) The dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs occuring since the 1948 Palestine war and establishment of the State of Israel.
(n) :
Alternative letter-case form of Nakba. [(politics) The dispossession of land and other property, destruction of society, and suppression of culture and political rights experienced by Palestinian Arabs occuring since the 1948 Palestine war and establishment of the State of Israel.]