Beirut

English

Alternative forms

• (city): Beyrout (dated)

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بیروت (beyrût), from Arabic بَيْرُوت (bayrūt), ultimately from Phoenician 𐤁𐤓𐤕 (brt /⁠bērūt⁠/), from Proto-West Semitic *biʾrāt- (“wells”). Doublet of Berytus and Beeroth.

Pronunciation

• enPR: bā-ro͞otʹ, IPA^(key): /beɪˈɹuːt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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  • Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: Bei‧rut
• Rhymes: -uːt

Proper noun

Beirut

2. The capital and largest city of Lebanon.
   • 2025 April 27, Oren Liebermann, Charbel Mallo, Michael Rios, Eyad Kourdi and Dana Karni, “Israeli airstrike rocks southern Beirut after military issues evacuation warning”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     An Israeli airstrike rocked southern Beirut on Sunday soon after the military issued an evacuation warning for the Lebanese capital.

4. The drinking game of beer pong.

Related terms

• Beiruti
• Berytus

Translations

capital and largest city of Lebanon

• Afrikaans: Beiroet
• Albanian: Bejrut m
• Amharic: ቤይሩት (beyrut)
• Arabic: بَيْرُوت f (bayrūt)

  Cypriot Arabic: Verút f

  Egyptian Arabic: بيروت f (bairūt)

  Hijazi Arabic: بَيْرُوت f (bayrūt)

  Moroccan Arabic: بيروت f

  North Levantine Arabic: بيروت f (beyrūt)

  South Levantine Arabic: بيروت f (beyrūt)

• Armenian: Բեյրութ (hy) (Beyrutʻ)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܲܝܪܘܼܬ f (Bayrut)
• Azerbaijani: Beyrut (az)
• Bashkir: Бәйрүт (Bəyrüt)
• Belarusian: Бейру́т m (Bjejrút), Бэйру́т m (Bejrút) (Taraškievica)
• Bengali: বৈরুত (bōirut)
• Bulgarian: Бейру́т m (Bejrút)
• Burmese: ဘေရွတ်မြို့ (bherwatmrui.)
• Catalan: Beirut
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 貝魯特 / 贝鲁特 (bui³ lou⁵ dak⁶)

  Mandarin: 貝魯特 / 贝鲁特 (zh) (Bèilǔtè)

• Czech: Bejrút (cs) m
• Danish: Beirut n
• Dutch: Beiroet (nl) n
• Esperanto: Bejruto (eo)
• Estonian: Beirut (et)
• Finnish: Beirut (fi)
• French: Beyrouth (fr) m
• Georgian: ბეირუთი (ka) (beiruti)
• German: Beirut (de) n
• Greek: Βηρυτός (el) m (Virytós)

  Ancient: Βηρυτός f (Bērutós)

• Hebrew: ביירות \ בֵּירוּת f (beirut)
• Hindi: बैरूत m (bairūt), बेरूत m (berūt), बेयरूत m (beyrūt), बेरुत m (berut)
• Hungarian: Bejrút (hu)
• Icelandic: Beirút
• Ido: Beirut
• Indonesian: Beirut
• Irish: Béiriút m
• Italian: Beirut, Berito m (Ancient)
• Japanese: ベイルート (ja) (Beirūto)
• Kazakh: Бейрут (Beirut)
• Khmer: បេរូត (km) (beeruut)
• Korean: 베이루트 (ko) (Beiruteu), 바이루트 (ko) (Bairuteu) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Bêrût (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Бейрут (Beyrut)
• Lao: ເບຣຸດ (bē rut)
• Latin: Bērȳtus f
• Latvian: Beirūta f
• Lithuanian: Beirutas m
• Macedonian: Бејрут m (Bejrut)
• Malay: Beirut
• Maltese: Bejrut
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Бейрут (Bejrut)

• Navajo: Beiwooʼ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Beirut (no) n

  Nynorsk: Beirut n

• Occitan: Beirot
• Pashto: بيروت m (birut)
• Persian:

  Dari: بَیْرُوت (bayrūt)

  Iranian Persian: بِیْروت (beyrut)

• Polish: Bejrut (pl) m
• Portuguese: Beirute (pt)
• Romanian: Beirut (ro)
• Russian: Бейру́т (ru) m (Bejrút)
• Scots: Beirut
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бејрут m

  Roman: Bejrut (sh) m

• Slovak: Bejrút m
• Slovene: Bejrut m
• Spanish: Beirut (es)
• Swedish: Beirut (sv) n
• Tajik: Байрут (tg) (Bayrut)
• Tatar: Бәйрут (Bäyrut)
• Thai: เบรุต (bee-rút)
• Turkish: Beyrut (tr)
• Turkmen: Beýrut
• Ukrainian: Бейру́т m (Bejrút)
• Urdu: بَیرُوت m (bairūt)
• Uyghur: بەيرۇت (beyrut)
• Uzbek: Bayrut (uz)
• Vietnamese: Bây-rút
• Volapük: Bäyrut
• West Frisian: Beirût
• Yiddish: ביירוט n (beyrut)

Anagrams

• Iturbe, biuret, Uberti

Danish

Proper noun

Beirut

1. Beirut (the capital city of Lebanon)

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baɪ̯ˈʁuːt/, /ˈbaɪ̯ʁuːt/, (both also) /bɛɪ̯-/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Beirut n (proper noun, genitive Beiruts or (optionally with an article) Beirut)

1. Beirut (the capital city of Lebanon)

See also

• Bayreuth (not to be confused)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beiˈɾut/ [bei̯ˈɾut̪]
• Rhymes: -ut
• Syllabification: Bei‧rut

Proper noun

Beirut ?

1. Beirut (the capital city of Lebanon)

Swedish

Proper noun

Beirut n (genitive Beiruts)

1. Beirut (the capital city of Lebanon)