𐤁𐤓𐤕
Phoenician edit
Alternative forms edit
- 𐤁𐤀𐤓𐤕 (bʾrt)
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Semitic *biʾrāt- (“wells”). Cognate with Biblical Hebrew בְּאֵרוֹת (bəʾērōṯ). Compare Akkadian 𒁁𒊒𒋫 (/bērūta/, “Beirut”) and Egyptian brt (“Beirut”), both borrowed from a Canaanite language ancestral to Phoenician in the 2nd millennium BC.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
𐤁𐤓𐤕 (brt /bērūt/)
Descendants edit
- → Ancient Greek: Βηρῡτός (Bērūtós)
- → Arabic: بَيْرُوت (bayrūt)
- Cypriot Arabic: Verút
- → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܲܝܪܘܼܬ (bayrūt)
- → Azerbaijani: Beyrut
- → Bashkir: Бәйрүт (Bəyrüt)
- → Hindustani:
- → Marathi: बैरूत (bairūt)
- → Ottoman Turkish: بیروت (Beyrût)
- Turkish: Beyrut
- → Persian: بیروت (beyrut)
- → Punjabi:
- → Sindhi: بيروت
- → Tatar: Бәйрут (Bäyrut)
- → Uyghur: بەيرۇت (beyrut)
- → Uzbek: Bayrut