Lebanon

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛbənən/
• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛbənɑn/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Lebanon

1. A mountain range in the Middle East.
3. A country in the Middle East. Official name: Lebanese Republic. 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. 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 CDP known as Rising Sun-Lebanon in Kent County, Delaware.
   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.

Synonyms

• (mountain range): Mount Lebanon

Derived terms

• Lebanon cedar
• Lebanon County

Translations

mountain range

• Arabic: لُبْنَان (lubnān)
• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: לִבְנָן (liḇnān)

  Syriac: ܠܸܒܼܢܵܢ (leḇnān)

• Armenian:

  Old Armenian: Լիբանան (Libanan)

• Car Nicobarese: Lëpanön
• French: Liban (fr)
• German: Libanon (de)
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• Greek: Λίβανος (el) (Lívanos)

  Ancient Greek: Λίβανον (Líbanon)

• Hebrew: הַלְּבָנוֹן (he) (ha-l'vanón)
• Latin: Libanus m
• Old Church Slavonic: Лїванъ (Livanŭ)
• Russian: Лива́н (ru) (Liván)
• Yiddish: לבֿנון (levonen)

Lebanese Republic

• Adyghe: Ливан (Livan)
• Albanian: Liban m
• Amharic: ሊባኖስ (libanos)
• Arabic: لُبْنَان m (lubnān)

  Egyptian Arabic: لبنان f (lebnan)

  Hijazi Arabic: لبنان f (libnān)

• Armenian: Լիբանան (hy) (Libanan)
• Azerbaijani: Livan (az)
• Bashkir: Ливан (Livan)
• Belarusian: Ліва́н m (Liván)
• Bengali: লেবানন (lebanôn)
• Breton: Liban
• 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
• Dhivehi: ލުބުނާން (lubunān̊)
• Dutch: Libanon (nl) n
• Esperanto: Libano (eo)
• Estonian: Liibanon (et)
• Faroese: Libanon n
• Finnish: Libanon (fi)
• French: Liban (fr) m
• Georgian: ლიბანი (libani)
• German: Libanon (de) m
• Greek: Λίβανος (el) m (Lívanos)
• Hausa: Labanan
• Hebrew: לְבָנוֹן (he) (l'vanón)
• Hindi: लेबनान (hi) (lebnān), लेबनॉन (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)
• Kalenjin: Lebanon
• Kamba: Lebanon
• Kazakh: Ливан (Livan)
• Khmer: លីបង់ (km) (liibɑng)
• Kikuyu: Lebanon, Lebanon
• Korean: 레바논 (Rebanon)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: لوبنان (lubnan)

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• 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
• Maltese: il-Libanu
• Meru: Lebanon
• Mongolian: Ливан (Livan)
• Navajo: Łíbanoo
• Norman: Liban m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Libanon (no)

  Nynorsk: Libanon (nn)

• Old Persian: 𐎾𐎲𐎴𐎠𐎴 (labanāna)
• Pashto: لبنان (lubnān)
• Persian: لبنان (lobnân)
• Polish: Liban (pl) m
• Portuguese: o Líbano (pt) m
• Romanian: Liban (ro) m
• Russian: Лива́н (ru) m (Liván)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Либан m, Либанон m

  Roman: Liban m, Libanon (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)
• 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: لبنان (lebnān)
• Uyghur: لىۋان (liwan)
• Uzbek: Livan (uz)
• Vietnamese: Li-băng
• Yiddish: לבֿנון (levonen)
• Yoruba: Lebanoni

See also

• Lebanese Global Information Center
• Countries of the world

Anagrams

• nanobel