Levant

See also: levant

English

the Levant

Etymology

Borrowed from French levant (“rising, sun's point of rising”), form of lever (“to rise”), from Latin levō (“to rise”) (cf. also the present participle levāns), from levis (“light, not heavy”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛv.ənt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ləˈvɑnt/, /lɛvɑnt/, /ləˈvænt/
• Rhymes: -ænt

Proper noun

Levant

1. The countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea, namely Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus (and sometimes, especially in a historical context, also including Turkey and Egypt, then part of the Ottoman Empire).

   Synonyms: Mashreq, Greater Syria

Coordinate terms

• Maghreb (western Mediterranean, literally “where the sun sets”)

Derived terms

• Levantine

Translations

the countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea

• Arabic: مَشْرِق m (mašriq), اَلْمَشْرِق اَلْعَرَبِيّ m (al-mašriq al-ʕarabiyy), اَلشَّرْق (ar) m (aš-šarq), الشَّام m (aš-šām), بِلَاد الشَّامِ (ar) f (bilād aš-šāmi)
• Armenian: Լեւանտ (hy) (Lewant)
• Bengali: শাম (śam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 累范特 (Lèifàntè), 黎凡特 (zh) (Lífántè)

• Czech: Levanta f
• Danish: Levanten
• Dutch: Levant
• Esperanto: Levantenio
• Finnish: Levantti (fi)
• French: Levant (fr) m

  Middle French: Levant m

• Galician: Levante m
• Georgian: ლევანტი (levanṭi)
• German: Levante (de) f
• Greek: Λεβάντες (el) m (Levántes)
• Hebrew: לֶבַנְט m
• Hindi: शाम (hi) (śām)
• Icelandic: Austurlönd nær
• Irish: an Leiveaint f
• Italian: Levante m
• Japanese: レバント (Rebanto), レヴァント (Revanto)
• Korean: 레반트 (Rebanteu)
• Malay: Syam
• Manx: Yn Levaant m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Levanten

  Nynorsk: Levanten

• Persian: شام (fa) (šâm)
• Polish: Lewant (pl) m
• Portuguese: Levante (pt) m
• Russian: Лева́нт (ru) m (Levánt)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Лѐвант m

  Roman: Lèvant (sh) m

• Spanish: Levante (es) m
• Swedish: Levanten (sv) c
• Tajik: Шом (Šom)
• Thai: ลิแวนต์
• Turkish: Levant (tr)
• Ukrainian: Лева́нт m (Levánt), Шам m (Šam)
• Urdu: شام (śām)
• Uzbek: Shom
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Noun

Levant (plural Levants)

1. An easterly wind, generally in the western Mediterranean Sea

   Synonym: levanter

2. A type of leather.
   • 1976, Geoffrey Wolff, Black Sun, New York Review of Books, published 2003, page 173:

     [I]t was bound by G. Levitsky […] in turquoise Levant, stamped back and front with the Crosby crest in gold.

Further reading

• Levant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Levant (wind) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -valent, valent, vental

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French Levant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ləˈvɑnt/, /leːˈvɑnt/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: Le‧vant
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

Proper noun

Levant m

1. Levant (a region of Western Asia, bordering the Mediterranean Sea)
   • 1836, Nicolaas G. van Kampen, De Levant of Mohammedaansch Azië, vol. 3, publ. by de erven François Bohn, page 223.

     De hoofd- of liever de eenige stad des eilands, van denzelfden naam, sedert den moord van 1822 de schaduw niet meer van hetgeen zij vroeger was, plagt eene der beste plaatsen van de Levant te zijn.

     The capital - or rather the only city of the island, of the same name, no longer the shadow of what it formerly was since the murder of 1822, used to be one of the best settlements of the Levant.

   • 2008, Klaas Vansteenhuyse, Culturen gaan altijd ten onder. De zeevolkeren in het Middellandse Zeegebied (1200 voor Christus), vol. 3, Davidsfonds (publ.).

     Deze hebben een algemene vorm die goed verspreid was in de Levant tijdens de late bronstijd.

     These have a general shape that was widespread in the Levant during the Late Bronze Age.

Derived terms

• Levantijns

French

Etymology

See levant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lə.vɑ̃/

Proper noun

Levant m

1. (dated) Orient (the countries of Asia)
2. Levant (a region of Western Asia, bordering the Mediterranean Sea)

   Antonym: Ponant

Derived terms

• État islamique en Irak et au Levant
• levantin
• Levantin

 

Anagrams

• lavent, valent

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lěʋant/
• Hyphenation: Le‧vant

Proper noun

Lèvant m (Cyrillic spelling Лѐвант)

1. Levant (a region of Western Asia, bordering the Mediterranean Sea)

Declension

Declension of Levant

	singular
nominative	Levant
genitive	Levanta
dative	Levantu
accusative	Levant
vocative	Levante
locative	Levantu
instrumental	Levantom

Turkish

Picture dictionary

Levant

Levant

Suriye

Lübnan

Filistin

İsrail

Ürdün

Mısır

Suudi Arabistan

Irak

Türkiye

Kuzey Kıbrıs

Güney Kıbrıs

Akdeniz

Kızıldeniz

Nil

Fırat

Proper noun

Levant

1. Levant (a region of Western Asia, bordering the Mediterranean Sea)