Levantine

See also: levantine

English

Etymology

Levant +‎ -ine (“of”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛvəntaɪn/

Adjective

Levantine (not comparable)

1. Of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean.
   • 2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     [O]ne minute this "Jihadi John" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento intent on subjecting the world to its murderous brand of Wahhabi Islam.

Translations

of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean

• Arabic: شَامِيّ (šāmiyy)
• Czech: levantský
• French: levantin (fr)
• Greek: λεβαντίνος (el) (levantínos)
• Hebrew: לֶבַנְטִינִי
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• Italian: levantino (it)
• Manx: Levaantagh
• Portuguese: levantino
• Russian: леванти́йский (ru) (levantíjskij)
• Swedish: levantinsk c

Noun

Levantine (plural Levantines)

1. Synonym of Franco-Levantine.

Anagrams

• Valentine, valentine

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lə.vɑ̃.tin/

Noun

Levantine f (plural Levantines)

1. female equivalent of Levantin