Beirut

English

Etymology

From Arabic بَيْرُوت (bayrūt), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Phoenician 𐤁𐤓𐤕 (Berot, Birut)

Pronunciation

• enPR: bā-ro͞otʹ, IPA^(key): /beɪˈɹuːt/
• Hyphenation: Bei‧rut
• Rhymes: -uːt

Proper noun

Beirut

1. The capital city of Lebanon.
2. The drinking game of beer pong.

Related terms

• Beiruti
• Berytus

Translations

capital of Lebanon

• Albanian: Bejrut
• Arabic: بَيْرُوت m (bayrūt)

  Egyptian Arabic: بيروت f (bairūt)

• Armenian: Բեյրութ (hy) (Beyrutʻ)
• Bulgarian: Бейру́т (Bejrút)
• Catalan: Beirut
• Chinese:

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

  Mandarin: 貝魯特／贝鲁特 (zh) (Bèilǔtè), 贝鲁特 (zh) (Bèilǔtè)

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

  Ancient: Βηρυτός f (Bērutós)

• Hebrew: ביירות (Beirut)
• Hungarian: Bejrút (hu)
• Ido: Beirut
• Indonesian: Beirut
• Irish: Béiriút m
• Italian: Beirut
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: ベイルート (Beirūto)
• Korean: 베이루트 (ko) (Beiruteu)
• Kurdish:
• Latin: Bērȳtus f
• Latvian: Beirūta
• Lithuanian: Beirutas m
• Maltese: Bejrut
• Navajo: Beiwooʼ
• Norwegian: Beirut
• Persian: بیروت (beyrut)
• Polish: Bejrut (pl)
• Portuguese: Beirute (pt)
• Romanian: Beirut (ro)
• Russian: Бейру́т (ru) m (Bejrút)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бејрут m

  Roman: Bejrut (sh) m

• Slovak: Bejrút
• Slovene: Bejrut
• Spanish: Beirut (es)
• Swedish: Beirut (sv)
• Turkish: Beyrut (tr)
• Uzbek: Bayrut
• Volapük: Bäyrut

Anagrams

• biuret

---

Danish

Proper noun

Beirut

1. Beirut (the capital of Lebanon)

---

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baɪ̯ˈʁuːt/, /ˈbaɪ̯ˌʁuːt/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Beirut n (proper noun, strong, genitive Beiruts)

1. Beirut (the capital of Lebanon)

See also

• Bayreuth (not to be confused)

---

Spanish

Proper noun

Beirut ?

1. Beirut (the capital of Lebanon)

---

Swedish

Proper noun

Beirut n (genitive Beiruts)

1. Beirut (capital of Lebanon)