Libya

English

Etymology

Via (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin Libya, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek Λιβύη (Libúē). English since the 16th century.

Pronunciation

• enPR: lĭbʹē-ə, IPA^(key): /ˈlɪbi.ə/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: Lib‧ya
• Rhymes: -ɪbiə

Proper noun

Libya

2. A country in North Africa.
3. (historical) Africa; that is, the part of North Africa known in classical antiquity.

Derived terms

• Libyan

Translations

country in Northern Africa

• Afrikaans: Libië
• Albanian: Libi f
• Amharic: ሊቢያ (libiya)
• Arabic: لِيبِيَا (ar) f (lībiyā), لُوبِيَا (lūbiyā) (archaic)
• Aramaic: ܠܘܒܐ (ܠܘܒܐ)
• Armenian: Լիբիա (hy) (Libia)
• Asturian: Libia (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: Liviya (az)
• Belarusian: Лі́вія f (Lívija)
• Bengali: লিবিয়া (libiẏa)
• Breton: Libia
• Bulgarian: Ли́бия f (Líbija)
• Burmese: လစ်ဗျား (lacbya:)
• Catalan: Líbia (ca) f
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵍⵉⴱⵢⴰ (libya)
• Chechen: Ливи (Livi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 利比亞／利比亚 (zh) (Lìbǐyà), 利比亚 (zh) (Lìbǐyà)

• Coptic: ⲧⲉⲙⲫⲁⲓⲁⲧ (temphaiat)
• Crimean Tatar: Libiya
• Czech: Libye (cs) f
• Danish: Libyen (da)
• Dhivehi: ލީބިޔާ (lībiyā)
• Domari: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: Libië (nl) n
• Esperanto: Libio (eo)
• Estonian: Liibüa (et)
• Faroese: Libya
• Finnish: Libya (fi)
• French: Libye (fr) f

  Middle French: Lybie f

• Galician: Libia (gl) f
• Georgian: ლიბია (libia)
• German: Libyen (de) n
• Greek: Λιβύη (el) f (Livýi)

  Ancient: Λιβύη f (Libúē)

• Hausa: Libya
• Hebrew: לוּב m (luv)
• Hindi: लीबिया (hi) m (lībiyā)
• Hungarian: Líbia (hu)
• Icelandic: Líbía f
• Indonesian: Libya (id)
• Interlingua: Libya
• Irish: an Libia f
• Italian: Libia (it) f
• Japanese: リビア (ja) (Ribia)
• Kalenjin: Libya
• Kamba: Libya
• Kannada: ಲಿಬಿಯಾ (libiyā)
• Kazakh: Ливия (Liviä)
• Khmer: លីប៊ី (km) (liibii)
• Kikuyu: Libia
• Korean: 리비아 (Ribia)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji:

• Kyrgyz: Ливия (Liviya)
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• Lao: ລີເບຍ (lī bīa)
• Latvian: Lībija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Libija (lt) f
• Luo: Libya
• Macedonian: Ли́бија (mk) f (Líbija)
• Malay: Libya
• Malayalam: ലിബിയ (libiya)
• Maori: Rīpia
• Marathi: लिबिया (libiyā)
• Meru: Libya
• Mongolian: Ливи (Livi)
• Navajo: Łíbya
• Norman: Libye f
• Norwegian: Libya (no)
• Occitan: Libia (oc) f
• Old Persian: 𐎱𐎢𐎫𐎠𐎹 (putāya)
• Ossetian: Ливи (Livi)
• Pashto: لېبيا
• Persian: لیبی (fa) (libi)
• Polish: Libia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Líbia (pt) f
• Romanian: Libia (ro) f
• Russian: Ли́вия (ru) f (Lívija)
• Samogitian: Lėbėjė, Libėjė
• Scots: Libie
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Либија f

  Roman: Libija (sh) f

• Silesian: Libijo
• Sinhalese: ලිබියාව (libiyāwa)
• Siwi: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: Líbya (sk) f
• Slovene: Líbija (sl) f
• Spanish: Libia (es)
• Swahili: Libya (sw)
• Swedish: Libyen (sv)
• Tagalog: Libya
• Tajik: Либия (Libiya)
• Tamil: லிபியா (lipiyā)
• Tatar: Ливия (Liwiyä)
• Telugu: లిబియా (te) (libiyā)
• Thai: ลิเบีย (th) (lí-biia)
• Tigrinya: ሊቢያ (libiya)
• Turkish: Libya (tr)
• Turkmen: Liwiýa
• Ukrainian: Лі́вія (uk) (Lívija)
• Urdu: لیبیا m (lībiyā)
• Uyghur: لىۋىيە (liwiye)
• Uzbek: Liviya
• Vietnamese: Li-bi
• Volapük: Lübän (vo)
• Yakut: Лиибийэ (Liibiye)
• Yiddish: ליביע (libye)
• Yoruba: Líbyà
• Zulu: ILibiya

See also

• Tripoli
• Appendix:Countries of the world
• (countries of Africa) countries of Africa; Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: en:Countries in Africa) [edit]}

Anagrams

• Baily, Lybia, bialy

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlibyɑ/, [ˈlibyɑ̝]

Proper noun

Libya

1. Libya

Declension

Inflection of Libya (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Libya	—
genitive		Libyan	—
partitive		Libyaa	—
illative		Libyaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Libya	—
accusative	nom.	Libya	—
	gen.	Libyan
genitive		Libyan	—
partitive		Libyaa	—
inessive		Libyassa	—
elative		Libyasta	—
illative		Libyaan	—
adessive		Libyalla	—
ablative		Libyalta	—
allative		Libyalle	—
essive		Libyana	—
translative		Libyaksi	—
abessive		Libyatta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Libya (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Libyani — accusative nom. Libyani — gen. Libyani genitive Libyani — partitive Libyaani — inessive Libyassani — elative Libyastani — illative Libyaani — adessive Libyallani — ablative Libyaltani — allative Libyalleni — essive Libyanani — translative Libyakseni — abessive Libyattani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Libyasi — accusative nom. Libyasi — gen. Libyasi genitive Libyasi — partitive Libyaasi — inessive Libyassasi — elative Libyastasi — illative Libyaasi — adessive Libyallasi — ablative Libyaltasi — allative Libyallesi — essive Libyanasi — translative Libyaksesi — abessive Libyattasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Libyamme — accusative nom. Libyamme — gen. Libyamme genitive Libyamme — partitive Libyaamme — inessive Libyassamme — elative Libyastamme — illative Libyaamme — adessive Libyallamme — ablative Libyaltamme — allative Libyallemme — essive Libyanamme — translative Libyaksemme — abessive Libyattamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Libyanne — accusative nom. Libyanne — gen. Libyanne genitive Libyanne — partitive Libyaanne — inessive Libyassanne — elative Libyastanne — illative Libyaanne — adessive Libyallanne — ablative Libyaltanne — allative Libyallenne — essive Libyananne — translative Libyaksenne — abessive Libyattanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Libyansa — accusative nom. Libyansa — gen. Libyansa genitive Libyansa — partitive Libyaansa — inessive Libyassaan Libyassansa — elative Libyastaan Libyastansa — illative Libyaansa — adessive Libyallaan Libyallansa — ablative Libyaltaan Libyaltansa — allative Libyalleen Libyallensa — essive Libyanaan Libyanansa — translative Libyakseen Libyaksensa — abessive Libyattaan Libyattansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

• libyalainen

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Latin

Alternative forms

• Libua
• Libyē

Spelled Libua by Plautus, Libya in Pliny, Virgil and Cicero. Juvenal has Libyē.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Λιβύη (Libúē)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈli.by.a/, [ˈlʲɪbyä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.bi.a/, [ˈliːbiä]

Proper noun

Libya f sg (genitive Libyae); first declension

1. Africa, i.e. the part of North Africa known in classical antiquity.
2. (New Latin) Libya (modern country in North Africa)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Libya
Genitive	Libyae
Dative	Libyae
Accusative	Libyam
Ablative	Libyā
Vocative	Libya

Related terms

• libycus, Libycus
• Libys

Descendants

• → English: Libya
• Norman: Libye

References

• “Libya”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Libya in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Libya

1. Libya

Related terms

• libyer
• libysk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Libya

1. Libya

Related terms

• libyar
• libysk

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Swahili

Proper noun

Libya

1. Libya

Derived terms

• Mlibya

See also

• (countries of Africa) nchi za Afrika; Algeria or Aljeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Kamerun or Cameroon or Kameruni, Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kati, Chad or Chadi, Komori or Visiwa vya Ngazija, Cote d'Ivoire or Kodivaa, Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo or Kongo-Kinshasa, Jibuti or Djibouti, Misri or Umisri, Guinea ya Ikweta or Ginekweta, Eritrea, Ethiopia or Uhabeshi or Habeshi, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea or Gine or Gini, Guinea Bisau or Guinea-Bisau or Ginebisau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagaska or Bukini, Malawi or Unyasa, Mali, Mauritania, Morisi, Mayotte, Moroko or Maroko, Msumbiji or Mozambik, Namibia, Niger or Nijeri, Nigeria or Nijeria or Naijeria, Jamhuri ya Kongo or Kongo-Brazzaville, Réunion, Rwanda or Ruanda, Mtakatifu Helena, Sao Tome na Principe, Senegal or Senegali, Shelisheli, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Afrika Kusini, Sudan Kusini, Sudan, Uswazi or Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Sahara ya Magharibi, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: sw:Countries in Africa) [edit]}

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Tagalog

Etymology

From English Libya and/or Spanish Libia (“Libya”).

Proper noun

Libya

1. Libya

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Turkish

Proper noun

Libya

1. Libya

Derived terms

• Libyalı