ܠܒܢܢ

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

Root
ܠ ܒ ܢ (l b n)
2 terms

ܠܒܢܢ

ܐܬܐ ܕܠܒܢܢ

Etymology

From Biblical Hebrew לְבָנוֹן (ləḇānôn), from Proto-West Semitic *laban- (“white”). Compare Modern Hebrew לְבָנוֹן (l'vanón) and Arabic لُبْنَان (lubnān).

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): [lju.nɑnː]
• (Urmian) IPA^(key): [lɪv.nɑnː]
• (Nineveh Plains) IPA^(key): [lɪb.nɑnː]

Proper noun

ܠܸܒ݂ܢܵܢ • (liḇnān) m or f

2. Lebanon (a country in Asia; official name: Lebanese Republic)
3. A mountain range in the Middle East.

Related terms

• ܠܸܒ݂ܢܵܢܵܝܵܐ (liḇnānāyā, “Lebanese”)

Classical Syriac

ܨܘܪܬܐ ܕܦܘܪܫܐ ܕܬܘܕ̈ܝܬܐ ܒܠܒܢܢ ܝܘܡܢܐ

Etymology

From Proto-West Semitic *laban- (“white”). Compare Hebrew לְבָנוֹן (l'vanón) and Arabic لُبْنَان (lubnān).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [lɛvnɑn]

Proper noun

ܠܒܢܢ • (leḇnān)

1. Lebanon
2. Mount Lebanon

   Synonym: ܛܘܪ ܠܒܢܢ

Derived terms

• ܠܒܢܢܝܐ (“libnite, lebanese”)

Related terms

• ܦܘܢܝܩܝܐ (“Phoenicia”)
• ܡܪܘܢܝܐ (“Maronite”)

References

• ܠܒܢܢ on syriacdictionary.net
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 235
• Payne Smith, Robert (1879–1901) Thesaurus Syriacus (in Latin), Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 690
• Bar Bahlul, Ḥasan (a. 1000) Duval, Rubens, editor, Lexicon Syriacum (Collection Orientale; 15–17) (in Classical Syriac), Paris: e Reipublicæ typographæo, published 1901, page 468