"The Holy" Turkish – Kudüs or Yeruşalim Urdu – , Yarośalam or , Bait-ul-muqaddas or Quds e-Šhareef Bayt al-Maqdis or Bayt al-Muqaddas is a less commonly used Arabic name for Jerusalem though it appeared more commonly in early Islamic sources. It is the base from which nisbas (names based on the origin of the person named) are formed – hence the famous medieval geographer called both al-Maqdisi and al-Muqaddasi ( 946) This name is of a semantic extension from the Hadiths used in reference to the Temple in Jerusalem, called Beit HaMikdash (בית המקדש "The Holy Temple" or "Temple of the Sanctified Place") in Hebrew. Avar – Байтул Макъдис, Baytul Maqdis Azerbaijani – Beytül-Müqəddəs Indonesian – Baitulmaqdis Kurdish – / Beytî Muqeddes Malay – Baitulmuqaddis Persian – , Beit-e Moghaddas Turkish Beyt-i Mukaddes Urdu – , Bait-ul-Muqaddas al-Balāṭ is a rare poetic name for Jerusalem in Arabic, loaned from the Latin palatium "palace". Also from Latin is إِيْـلْـيَـاء ʼĪlyāʼ, a rare name for Jerusalem used in early times Middle Ages, as in some Hadith (Bukhari 1:6, 4:191; Muwatta 20:26). Sign languages Jewish and Arab signers of Israeli Sign Language use different signs: the former mimic kissing the Western Wall, the latter gesture to indicate the shape of the Masjid Al-Aqsa (i.e. the Dome of the Rock). See also Names of the Levant Shaam Timeline of the name "Palestine" References Bibliography External links Jerusalem History of Jerusalem Culture of Jerusalem Jerusalem