Babylonia

See also: Babylónia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Babylonia, from Ancient Greek Βαβυλωνία (Babulōnía), from Βαβυλων (Babulōn, “Babylon”) + -ία (-ía, forming place names for areas).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌbæbɪˈləʊnɪə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌbæbɪˈloʊni.ə/
• Rhymes: -əʊniə

Proper noun

Babylonia

2. (historical) An ancient empire and geographic region of Mesopotamia, existing from 1850 BCE to 539 BCE, based around the city of Babylon; at its maximum extent, covering parts of modern-day Iraq, Kuwait, Syria and Iran.

   Synonyms: Babylonian Empire; (in reference to the 2nd Babylonian Empire) Chaldea, Chaldean Empire, Neo-Babylonian Empire

4. (historical) A geographic area equivalent to Mesopotamia, from the area of Babylon's empire at its maximum extent.

   Synonym: Mesopotamia

Hyponyms

• (southern Babylonia): Sumeria; Chaldea

Derived terms

• Assyro-Babylonia
• Babylonian

Translations

ancient region and empire of southern Mesopotamia

• Albanian: Babilonia
• Arabic: بَابِل (ar) f (bābil)
• Armenian: Բաբելոնի թագավորություն (Babeloni tʻagavorutʻyun), Բաբելոն (hy) (Babelon)
• Belarusian: Вавіло́нія f (Vavilónija)
• Bulgarian: Вавилония f (Vavilonija)
• Catalan: Babilònia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巴比倫尼亞 / 巴比伦尼亚 (zh) (Bābǐlúnníyà)

• Czech: Babylónie (cs) f
• Danish: Babylonien n
• Dutch: Babylonië n, Babylonische Rijk n
• Egyptian: (sꜣngꜣr)
• Esperanto: Babilonio (eo)
• Estonian: Babüloonia
• Finnish: Babylonia (fi)
• French: Babylonie (fr) f, Babylone (fr)
• Galician: Babilonia (gl) f
• Georgian: ბაბილონეთი (babiloneti)
• German: Babylonien (de) n
• Greek: Βαβυλωνία (el) f (Vavylonía)

  Ancient: Βαβυλωνία f (Babulōnía)

• Hindi: बाबिल (hi) m (bābil), बाबुल (hi) m (bābul)
• Hungarian: Babilónia (hu)
• Icelandic: Babýlónía (is) f
• Irish: An Bhablóinia f
• Italian: Babilonia (it) f
• Japanese: バビロニア (Babironia)
• Korean: 바빌로니아 (babillonia)
• Latvian: Babilonija f
• Lithuanian: Babilonija f
• Macedonian: Вавило́нија f (Vavilónija)
• Maore Comorian: Ɓaɓiluna
• Marathi: बॅबिलॉनिया (bĕbilŏniyā)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Babylonia

  Nynorsk: Babylonia

• Ottoman Turkish: بابل (Bâbil)
• Persian: بابل (fa) (bâbel)
• Polish: Babilonia (pl) f
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian: Babilônia (pt) f

  European: Babilónia (pt) f

• Romanian: Babilonia f, Imperiul Babilonian n
• Russian: Вавило́ния (ru) f (Vavilónija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бабѝло̄нија f (Croatia), Вавѝло̄нија f (Bosnia, Serbia)

  Roman: Babìlōnija (sh) f (Croatia), Vavìlōnija f (Bosnia, Serbia)

• Slovak: Babylonia f
• Slovene: Babilonija f
• Spanish: Babilonia (es)
• Swedish: Babylonien n
• Thai: อาณาจักรบาบิโลเนีย (aanaa jàk baabìlohnia)
• Tumbuka: Babuloni
• Turkish: Babil (tr)
• Ukrainian: Вавило́нія (uk) f (Vavylónija)
• Volapük: Babülonän (vo)

See also

• Babylon

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βαβυλωνία (Babulōnía), derived from Βαβυλών (Babulṓn, “Babylon”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ba.byˈɫoː.ni.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ba.biˈlɔː.ni.a]

Proper noun

Babylōnia f sg (genitive Babylōniae); first declension

1. (historical) Babylonia (an ancient empire and geographic region of Mesopotamia, existing from 1850 BCE to 539 BCE, based around the city of Babylon; at its maximum extent, covering parts of modern-day Iraq, Kuwait, Syria and Iran)
2. (historical) Babylon (an ancient city, the ancient capital of Babylonia in modern Iraq, built on the banks of the Euphrates)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Babylōnia
genitive	Babylōniae
dative	Babylōniae
accusative	Babylōniam
ablative	Babylōniā
vocative	Babylōnia
locative	Babylōniae

Descendants

• Catalan: Babilònia
• → English: Babylonia
• Italian: Babilonia
• Sicilian: Vavilugna, Babbilùnia

References

• “Babylonia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Proper noun

Babylonia f

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of Babilónia