philistine

Etymology
The is derived from, influenced by , , from , from ,  (compare  and see further at ) +. The senses of the German word are often said to have derived from a 1693 sermon by the ecclesiastical superintendent Georg Heinrich Götze (1667–1728) on the passage “Philister über dir, Simson!” (“The Philistines are upon you, Samson!”; Judges 16:9, 12, 14, and 20) at the funeral of a student from the  in Jena, Thuringia, Germany, who had died as the result of a town and gown dispute (that is, one between the townspeople and university students), but the  notes that the word was already used in Jena in these senses in 1687.

The is derived from the noun.

The words and  were introduced into English by the British author  (1795–1881) and greatly popularized by the English poet and cultural critic  (1822–1888), particularly in essays first published in ' between 1867 and 1868 which were collected into a book entitled ' (1869).

Noun

 * 1)  A person who is ignorant or uneducated; specifically, a person who lacks appreciation of or is antagonistic towards art or culture, and who has pedestrian tastes.

Translations

 * Armenian: փղշտացի
 * Catalan: filisteu, filistea
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, šosák
 * Danish: spidsborger
 * Dutch:, , , primitieveling
 * Faroese: smáborgari
 * Finnish: filisteri,
 * French:, , ,
 * German:, Philisterin, , , , Barbarin, , , , , Kunstbanause, Kunstbanausin, Kunstbarbar, Kunstbarbarin, , , Proletin, , , , , Sumper , Sumperin
 * Greek: φιλισταίος
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian:, filistea
 * Korean: 속물적인 사람,, 실리주의자
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: filistar
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, filisteia
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai:, ชาวบ้าน
 * Turkish: ,
 * Volapük:, hifilistan, jifilistan, , hifilistanef , jifilistanef

Adjective

 * 1)  Ignorant or uneducated; specifically, lacking appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture, and having pedestrian tastes.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: filisteu
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:, , , ,
 * Hungarian:, nyárspolgárias
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 俗っぽい.
 * Korean: 속물적, 실리주의의, 무학하다
 * Norwegian: filistrøs
 * Occitan:
 * Polish: filisterski
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: filisteisk,, ,
 * Volapük:, filistanik, hifilistanik, jifilistanik, filistanefik , hifilistanefik , hifilistanefik
 * Welsh: philistaidd