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Levantine
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levantine
English
Etymology
From en Levant ine of.
Pronunciation
en /ˈlɛvəntaɪn/ /ˈlɛvəntiːn/
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Adjective
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Of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean.
en Ponentine
en w:Roger Cohen The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/opinion/roger-cohen-the-evil-of-isis.html w:The New York Times 17 November 2014 [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. https://web.archive.org/web/20250716110448/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/opinion/roger-cohen-the-evil-of-isis.html 16 July 2025
Translations
of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean
Arabic: ar شَامِيّ
Bengali: bn শামী śamī
Catalan: ca llevantí
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 黎凡特的 Lífántè de
Czech: cs levantský
Dutch: nl Levantijns
Finnish: fi levanttilainen
French: fr levantin
German: de levantinisch, de morgenländisch
Greek: el λεβαντίνος
Hebrew: he לֶבַנְטִינִי
Hindi: hi
Irish: ga Leiveantach
Italian: it levantino
Japanese: ja
Kazakh: kk
Manx: gv Levaantagh
Persian: fa
Polish: pl lewantyński
Portuguese: pt levantino
Romanian: ro levantin m
Russian: ru леванти́йский
Swedish: sv levantinsk c
Tamil: ta
Noun
en Franco-Levantine.
Anagrams
en aeeilnntv Valentine valentine
en Demonyms
French
Pronunciation
Noun
f
fr Levantin