ܠܒܢܢ

Learned borrowing from Classical Syriac and ultimately from Proto-West Semitic *laban- (“white”). Compare Modern Hebrew לְבָנוֹן (l'vanón) and Arabic لُبْنَان (lubnān).

• (Standard) IPA^(key): [lɪwnaːn]
• (Urmia) IPA^(key): [lɪv.nɑnː]

ܠܸܒ݂ܢܵܢ • (liḇnān) m or f

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

• ܠܸܒ݂ܢܵܢܵܝܵܐ (liḇnānāyā, “Lebanese”)

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

• IPA^(key): [lɛvnɑn]

ܠܒܢܢ • (leḇnān)

1. Lebanon
2. Mount Lebanon

   Synonym: ܛܘܪ ܠܒܢܢ

• ܠܒܢܢܝܐ (“libnite, lebanese”)

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

• 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, column 1885
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903), A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[1], 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