Lebanon

English

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Lebanon

Wikipedia

 Lebanon (disambiguation) on Wikipedia

Etymology

The country's name comes from the name of the mountain range, which in turn comes from Biblical Hebrew לְבָנוֹן (ləḇānôn), from Proto-West Semitic *laban- (“white”) (compare Hebrew לָבָן (lāḇān, “white”), Arabic لَبَن (laban, “milk”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, Ireland, General South African) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛbənən/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛbənɑn/, (some towns) /ˈlɛbənən/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛbənɔn/, /-ɒn/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Lebanon (usually uncountable, plural Lebanons)

2. A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East. Official name: Lebanese Republic. Capital: Beirut. Also (especially formerly) known as "the Lebanon".
   • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 382:

     "He does a trip from Jiddah up to the Lebanon and now he's extending it as far as Marseilles."

4. A mountain range in the country of Lebanon, Western Asia.

   Synonym: Mount Lebanon

5. Various places in the United States of America:
   1. A small unincorporated community in Montezuma County, Colorado.
   2. A town in New London County, Connecticut.
   3. A census-designated place in Kent County, Delaware, in full Rising Sun-Lebanon.
   4. A city in St. Clair County, Illinois.
   5. A city, the county seat of Boone County, Indiana.
   6. A small city in Smith County, Kansas.
   7. A home rule city, the county seat of Marion County, Kentucky.
   8. A town in York County, Maine.
   9. A city, the county seat of Laclede County, Missouri.
   10. A small village in Red Willow County, Nebraska.
   11. A city in Grafton County, New Hampshire.
   12. A borough of Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
   13. A town in Madison County, New York.
   14. A city, the county seat of Warren County, Ohio.
   15. A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Marshall County, Oklahoma.
   16. A city in Linn County, Oregon.
   17. A city, the county seat of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.
   18. A small town in Potter County, South Dakota.
   19. A city, the county seat of Wilson County, Tennessee.
   20. An unincorporated community in Hardin County, Tennessee.
   21. A town, the county seat of Russell County, Virginia.
   22. A town and census-designated place in Dodge County, Wisconsin.
   23. A town in Waupaca County, Wisconsin.
   24. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Lebanon Township.
6. A barangay of Montevista, Davao de Oro, Philippines.

   Coordinate terms: Banagbanag, Banglasan, Bankerohan Norte, Bankerohan Sur, Camansi, Camantangan, Canidkid, Concepcion, Dauman, Lebanon, Linoan, Mayaon, New Calape, New Cebulan, New Dalaguete, New Visayas, Prosperidad, San Jose, San Vicente, Tapia — barangays of Montevista

Usage notes

The country is traditionally referred to with the definite article the, though this construction has declined in use.^[1]

Derived terms

• Lebanon cedar
• Lebanon County
• Mount Lebanon

Descendants

• → Japanese: レバノン (Rebanon)

Translations

mountain range

Arabic: لُبْنَان (ar) f (lubnān) Aramaic: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܠܸܒ݂ܢܵܢ (liwnan) Biblical Aramaic: לִבְנָן (liḇnān) Classical Syriac: ܠܸܒܼܢܵܢ (leḇnān) Armenian: Old Armenian: Լիբանան (Libanan) Car Nicobarese: Lëpanön French: Liban (fr) German: Libanon (de) Greek: Λίβανος (el) (Lívanos) Ancient: Λίβανον (Líbanon) Hebrew: הַלְּבָנוֹן (he) (ha-l'vanón) Latin: Libanus m Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: Лїванъ m (Livanŭ) Russian: Лива́н (ru) m (Liván) Ugaritic: 𐎍𐎁𐎐𐎐 (lbnn) Yiddish: לבֿנון (levonen)

Lebanese Republic

Adyghe: Ливан (Livan) Afrikaans: Libanon Albanian: Liban m, Libani (sq) m (definite) Amharic: ሊባኖስ (libanos) Arabic: لُبْنَان (ar) m or f (lubnān) Egyptian Arabic: لبنان f (lebnān) Hijazi Arabic: لبنان f (libnān) Moroccan Arabic: لبنان (lubnān) North Levantine Arabic: لبنان (libnēn) Armenian: Լիբանան (hy) (Libanan) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܠܸܒܢܵܢ (libnan) Azerbaijani: Livan (az) Bashkir: Ливан (Livan) Belarusian: Ліва́н m (Liván) Bengali: লেবানন (bn) (lebanon) Breton: Liban (br) Bulgarian: Лива́н (bg) m (Liván) Burmese: လက်ဘနွန် (lakbha.nwan) Car Nicobarese: Lëpanön Catalan: Líban (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 黎巴嫩 (zh) (Líbānèn) Crimean Tatar: Lübnan Czech: Libanon (cs) m Danish: Libanon n Dhivehi: ލުބުނާން (lubunān̊) Dutch: Libanon (nl) n Esperanto: Libano (eo) Estonian: Liibanon (et) Faroese: Libanon n Finnish: Libanon (fi) French: Liban (fr) m Galician: Líbano (gl) m Georgian: ლიბანი (ka) (libani) German: Libanon (de) m Greek: Λίβανος (el) m (Lívanos) Hausa: Labanan Hebrew: לְבָנוֹן (he) m (l'vanón) Hindi: लेबनान (hi) m (lebnān), लेबनॉन m (lebnŏn) Hungarian: Libanon (hu) Icelandic: Líbanon (is) n Ido: Libano (io) Indonesian: Lebanon (id) Interlingua: Libano Irish: An Liobáin f Italian: (il) Libano (it) m Japanese: レバノン (ja) (Rebanon) Kabuverdianu: Líbanu Kalenjin: Lebanon Kamba: Lebanon Kazakh: Ливан (kk) (Livan) Khmer: លីបង់ (km) (liibɑng) Kikuyu: Lebanon, Lebanon Korean: 레바논 (ko) (Rebanon) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: لوبنان (lubnan) Northern Kurdish: Libnan (ku) Kyrgyz: Ливан (Livan) Lao: ລີບັງ (lī bang) Latvian: Libāna (lv) f Lithuanian: Libanas (lt) m Luhya: Lebanon Luo: Lebanon Macedonian: Ли́бан (mk) m (Líban) Malay: Lubnan (ms) Maltese: il-Libanu Meru: Lebanon Mongolian: Cyrillic: Ливан (Livan) Navajo: Łíbanoo Norman: Liban m Norwegian: Bokmål: Libanon (no) n Nynorsk: Libanon (nn) n Old Persian: 𐎾𐎲𐎴𐎠𐎴 (l-b-n-a-n /⁠labanāna⁠/) Ottoman Turkish: لبنان (Lübnan) Pashto: لبنان m (lubnān) Persian: Dari: لُبْنَان (lubnān) Iranian Persian: لُبْنان (lobnân) Polish: Liban (pl) m Portuguese: o Líbano (pt) m Romanian: Liban (ro) m Russian: Лива́н (ru) m (Liván) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Либан m, Ли̏банон m Roman: Liban m, Lȉbanon (sh) m Sicilian: Lìbbanu m Sinhalese: ලෙබනනය (lebananaya) Slovak: Libanon m Slovene: Líbanon (sl) m Somali: Lubnaan Spanish: el Líbano (es) m Swahili: Lebanon (sw) Swedish: Libanon (sv) n Tagalog: Lebanon Tajik: Лубнон (tg) (Lubnon) Tatar: Ливан (Liwan) Telugu: లెబనాన్ (te) (lebanān) Thai: เลบานอน (th) (lee-baa-nɔn) Turkish: Lübnan (tr) Turkmen: Liwan Ukrainian: Ліва́н (uk) m (Liván) Urdu: لِبْنان m (libnān) Uyghur: لىۋان (liwan) Uzbek: Livan (uz) Vietnamese: Li-băng Welsh: Libanus m Yiddish: לבֿנון m (levonen) Yoruba: Lebanoni

See also

• Countries of the world
• (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, East Timor, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen

References

1. Motschenbacher, Heiko (2020) “Greece, the Netherlands and (the) Ukraine: A Corpus-Based Study of Definite Article Use with Country Names”, in A Journal of Onomastics, volume 68, number 1, →DOI, pages 1–16

Anagrams

• nanobel

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

Lebanon

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Alternative forms

• Libanon (Dutch-influenced Indonesian)

Etymology

From English Lebanon, from Biblical Hebrew לְבָנוֹן (ləḇānôn). Cognate with Malay Lubnan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (standard, English-influenced) [lɛˈbanɔn], (Dutch-influenced) [liˈbanɔn]
• Hyphenation: Le‧ba‧non

Proper noun

Lebanon

1. Lebanon (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)

See also

• (countries of Asia) negara-negara di Asia; Afganistan, Arab Saudi, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Filipina, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Irak, Iran, Israel, Jepang, Kamboja, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Korea Selatan, Korea Utara, Kuwait, Laos, Libanon, Maladewa, Malaysia, Mesir, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Palestina, Qatar, Rusia, Singapura, Siprus, Sri Lanka, Suriah, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor Leste, Tiongkok, Turki, Turkmenistan, Uni Emirat Arab, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yaman, Yordania

Further reading

• “Lebanon” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Marshallese

Proper noun

Lebanon

1. Lebanon (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English Lebanon, from Biblical Hebrew לְבָנוֹן (ləḇānôn).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈlebanon/ [ˌlɛː.bɐˈn̪on̪]
• Rhymes: -ebanon
• Syllabification: Le‧ba‧non

Proper noun

Lébanón (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜊᜈᜓᜈ᜔)

1. Lebanon (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)

   Synonym: Libano