Byblos

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Byblos, from Ancient Greek Βύβλος (Búblos), from Phoenician 𐤂𐤁𐤋 (gbl /⁠Gebal⁠/). Doublet of Jubail.

Proper noun

Byblos

2. A port city in Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon

   Synonym: Jubayl

Translations

port city in Lebanon

• Amharic: ጌባል (gebal)
• Arabic: جُبَيْل (jubayl)
• Armenian: Բիբլոս (Biblos), Ջիբեյլ (J̌ibeyl)
• Azerbaijani: Cübeyl (az)
• Basque: Biblos
• Belarusian: Бібл (Bibl)
• Bulgarian: Библос (Biblos)
• Catalan: Biblos
• Czech: Byblos
• Danish: Byblos
• Dutch: Byblos
• Egyptian: (kbn)
• Finnish: Byblos
• French: Byblos (fr)
• Galician: Biblos
• Georgian: ბიბლოსი (biblosi)
• German: Byblos
• Greek: Βύβλος (el) (Vývlos)

  Ancient: Βύβλος (Búblos)

• Hawaiian: Kepala
• Hebrew: גְּבָל (he) f (gval)
• Hungarian: Büblosz
• Indonesian: Byblos
• Italian: Biblo
• Latin: Byblos, Byblus
• Lithuanian: Biblas
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: جُبَیْل (fa) (jobeyl)

• Phoenician: 𐤂𐤁𐤋 (gbl /⁠Gebal⁠/)
• Polish: Byblos (pl)
• Portuguese: Biblo, Biblos, Byblo, Byblos
• Romanian: Byblos
• Russian: Библ (ru) (Bibl)
• Serbo-Croatian: Biblos, Библос
• Slovak: Byblos
• Slovene: Biblos
• Spanish: Biblos
• Swedish: Byblos
• Tajik: Ҷубайл (Jubayl)
• Turkish: Biblos
• Ugaritic: 𐎂𐎁𐎍 (gbl)
• Ukrainian: Бібл (Bibl)
• Urdu: جُبَیل (ur) m (jubail)
• Uzbek: Jubayl (uz)
• Welsh: Byblos

Anagrams

• slobby

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βύβλος (Búblos), from Phoenician 𐤂𐤁𐤋 (gbl).

Proper noun

Byblos f sg (genitive Byblī); second declension

1. Alternative form of Byblus

Declension

Second-declension noun (Greek-type), with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Byblos
Genitive	Byblī
Dative	Byblō
Accusative	Byblon
Ablative	Byblō
Vocative	Byble
Locative	Byblī

Descendants

• → English: Byblos

Portuguese

Proper noun

Byblos f

1. Obsolete spelling of Biblos.