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Beirut
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English
Alternative forms
city en Beyrout dated
Etymology
From en ota بیروت beyrût, from en ar بَيْرُوت, ultimately from en phn 𐤁𐤓𐤕 bērūt, from en sem-wes-pro *biʾrāt- wells. en Berytus Beeroth.
Pronunciation
bā-ro͞otʹ, en /beɪˈɹuːt/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Beirut.wav Southern England
en En-us-Beirut.oga US
en Bei rut
en uːt 2
Proper noun
en Q3820 en caplc c/Lebanon.
en Oren Liebermann, Charbel Mallo, Michael Rios, Eyad Kourdi and Dana Karni Israeli airstrike rocks southern Beirut after military issues evacuation warning w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/27/middleeast/beirut-lebanon-strike-israel-latam-intl 2025-04-27 An Israeli airstrike rocked southern Beirut on Sunday soon after the military issued an evacuation warning for the Lebanese capital. https://web.archive.org/web/20250720104737/https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/27/middleeast/beirut-lebanon-strike-israel-latam-intl 20 July 2025
en metonym The Lebanese government.
en Q1064959 The drinking game of beer pong.
Derived terms
en Beirutian
Related terms
en Beiruti Berytus
Translations
capital and largest city of Lebanon
Afrikaans: af Beiroet
Albanian: sq Bejrut m
Amharic: am ቤይሩት
Arabic: ar بَيْرُوت f
Cypriot Arabic: acy Verút f
Egyptian Arabic: arz بيروت f bairūt
Hijazi Arabic: acw بَيْرُوت f bayrūt
Moroccan Arabic: ary بيروت f
North Levantine Arabic: apc بيروت f beyrūt
South Levantine Arabic: ajp بيروت f beyrūt
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܒܲܝܪܘܼܬ Bayrut f
Armenian: hy Բեյրութ
Azerbaijani: az Beyrut
Bashkir: ba Бәйрүт
Belarusian: be Бейру́т m, be Бэйру́т m Taraškievica
Bengali: bn বৈরুত
Bulgarian: bg Бейру́т m
Burmese: my ဘေရွတ်မြို့
Catalan: ca Beirut
Cherokee: chr ᏇᎷᏘ
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 貝魯特 bui3 lou5 dak6
Mandarin: cmn 貝魯特 Bèilǔtè
Czech: cs Bejrút m
Danish: da Beirut n
Dutch: nl Beiroet n
Esperanto: eo Bejruto
Estonian: et Beirut
Finnish: fi Beirut
French: fr Beyrouth m
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Beirût
Georgian: ka ბეირუთი
German: de Beirut n
Greek: el Βηρυτός m
Ancient Greek: grc Βηρυτός f
Hebrew: he ביירות f ביירות \ בֵּירוּת beirut
Hindi: hi बेरूत m
Hungarian: hu Bejrút
Icelandic: is Beirút
Ido: io Beirut
Indonesian: id Beirut
Irish: ga Béiriút m
Italian: it Beirut, it Berito m Ancient
Japanese: ja ベイルート Beirūto
Kazakh: kk Бейрут
Khmer: km បេរូត
Korean: ko ^베이루트, ko ^바이루트 North Korea
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr Bêrût
Kyrgyz: ky Бейрут
Lao: lo ເບຣຸດ
Latin: la Bērȳtus f
Latvian: lv Beirūta f
Lithuanian: lt Beirutas m
Macedonian: mk Бејрут m
Malay: ms Beirut
Maltese: mt Bejrut
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Бейрут
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Beirut n
Nynorsk: nn Beirut n
Occitan: oc Beirot
Pashto: ps بيروت m birut
Persian:
Dari: prs بَیْرُوت
Iranian Persian: fa-ira بِیْروت
Polish: pl Bejrut m
Portuguese: pt Beirute
Romanian: ro Beirut
Russian: ru Бейру́т m
Scots: sco Beirut
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Бејрут m
Latin: sh Bejrut m
Slovak: sk Bejrút m
Slovene: sl Bejrut m
Spanish: es Beirut
Swedish: sv Beirut n
Tajik: tg Байрут
Tatar: tt Бәйрут
Thai: th เบรุต
Turkish: tr Beyrut
Turkmen: tk Beýrut
Ukrainian: uk Бейру́т m
Urdu: ur بَیرُوت m
Uyghur: ug بەيرۇت
Uzbek: uz Bayrut
Vietnamese: vi Bây-rút
Volapük: vo Bäyrut
Yiddish: yi ביירוט n
References
Anagrams
en beirtu Iturbe biuret Uberti
en Phoenicia
Danish
Proper noun
da proper noun
da capital city c/Lebanon Beirut
German
Pronunciation
de /baɪ̯ˈʁuːt/ /ˈbaɪ̯ʁuːt/ both also /bɛɪ̯-/
de De-Beirut.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
de De-Beirut2.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
toponym
de capital city c/Lebanon Beirut
See also
de Bayreuth not to be confused
Spanish
es:
Pronunciation
Proper noun
es capital city c/Lebanon Beirut
Swedish
Proper noun
n
sv capital city c/Lebanon Beirut