Lebanon

English thumb|240px|Flag of Lebanon <dab!> Etymology en :bor hbo:לְבָנוֹן<tr:ləḇānôn> 1 The country's name comes from the name of the mountain range, which in turn comes from en hbo לְבָנוֹן ləḇānôn, from en sem-wes-pro *laban- white (compare he לָבָן lāḇān white, ar لَبَن milk). Pronunciation en /ˈlɛbənən/ RP,SSBE en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Soundguys-Lebanon.wav London en /ˈlɛbənɒn/ SSBE,IE,South Africa uncommon en /ˈlɛbənɑn/ /ˈlɛbənən/ some towns GA,Atlantic Canada en En-us-Lebanon.ogg US en En-US-Lebanon.ogg US en /ˈlebənɔn/ AU en /ˈlebənɒn/ [ˈlebənɔ̟n] NZ Proper noun - s en Q822en country r/West Asia in the r/Middle East Lebanese Republic Beirut 1. Also (especially formerly) known as "the Lebanon". en 1958 1972 w:Anthony Burgess The Enemy in the Blanket The Malayan Trilogy 382 "He does a trip from Jiddah up to the Lebanon and now he's extending it as far as Marseilles." en Tamara Qiblawi US-backed army chief elected Lebanon’s president, ending years-long stalemate w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/09/middleeast/joseph-aoun-elected-lebanon-president-intl 2025-01-09 Lebanon had been without a president since the end of the tenure of former President Michel Aoun – who is not related to Joseph Aoun – in October 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20251231153714/https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/09/middleeast/joseph-aoun-elected-lebanon-president-intl 31 December 2025 en Q333711en mountain range c:pref/Lebanon r/West Asia Mount Lebanon. Various places in the United States of America: en small unincorporated community co/Montezuma County s/Colorado. en town co/New London County s/Connecticut. TopoZone: Lebanon, Connecticut en CDP co/Kent County s/Delaware, in full Rising Sun-Lebanon. en city co/St. Clair County s/Illinois. en city/county seat co/Boone County s/Indiana. en small city co/Smith County s/Kansas. en home rule city/county seat co/Marion County s/Kentucky. en town co/York County s/Maine. en city/county seat co/Laclede County s/Missouri. en small village co/Red Willow County s/Nebraska. en city co/Grafton County s/New Hampshire. TopoZone: Lebanon, New Hampshire en bor in co/Hunterdon County s/New Jersey. TopoZone: Lebanon, New Jersey en town co/Madison County s/New York. en city/county seat co/Warren County s/Ohio. en census-designated place/and/unincorporated community co/Marshall County s/Oklahoma. en city co/Linn County s/Oregon. en city/county seat co/Lebanon County s/Pennsylvania. en small town co/Potter County s/South Dakota. en city/county seat co/Wilson County s/Tennessee. en unincorporated community co/Hardin County s/Tennessee. en town/county seat co/Russell County s/Virginia. en town/and/census-designated place co/Dodge County s/Wisconsin. en town co/Waupaca County s/Wisconsin. en A number of <<townships>> in the <<c/USA>>, listed under Lebanon Township. en barangay mun/Montevista p/Davao de Oro c/Philippines. XI Davao de Oro Montevista Usage notes The country is traditionally referred to with the definite article en the, though this construction has declined in use.Motschenbacher Heiko 2020 Greece, the Netherlands and (the) Ukraine: A Corpus-Based Study of Definite Article Use with Country Names A Journal of Onomastics 68 1 1–16 10.1080/00277738.2020.1731241 Derived terms en East Lebanon Lebanese * Lebaneseness Lebanism Lebanize * Lebanization Lebanon cedar Lebanon County Lebanonism Lebanonist lollar Mount Lebanon New Lebanon South Lebanon West Lebanon Descendants bn লেবানন 1 my လက်ဘနွန် 1 kw Lebanon 1 hi लेबनान 1 id Libanon 1 ga An Liobáin 1 ja レバノン Rebanon 1 ko 레바논 1 gd Leabanon 1 si ලෙබනනය 1 ta லெபனான் 1 te లెబనాన్ 1 th เลบานอน 1 Translations mountain range Arabic: ar لُبْنَان f Aramaic: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܠܸܒ݂ܢܵܢ liwnan Biblical Aramaic: arc לִבְנָן liḇnān Classical Syriac: arc ܠܸܒܼܢܵܢ leḇnān Armenian: Old Armenian: xcl Լիբանան Cherokee: chr ᎴᏈᏅ French: fr Liban German: de Libanon Greek: el Λίβανος Ancient Greek: grc Λίβανον Hebrew: he לבנון הַלְּבָנוֹן ha-l'vanón Latin: la Libanus m Nicobarese: Car Nicobarese: caq Lëpanön Old Church Slavonic: Cyrillic: cu Лїванъ m Russian: ru Лива́н m Scottish Gaelic: gd Lebanon f, gd Leabanon f Tamil: ta லெபனான் Ugaritic: uga 𐎍𐎁𐎐𐎐 Yiddish: yi לבֿנון levonen Q822 Lebanese Republic Abkhaz: ab Ливан Afrikaans: af Libanon Albanian: sq Liban m, sq Libani m definite Amharic: am ሊባኖስ Arabic: ar لُبْنَان m f Egyptian Arabic: arz لبنان f lebnān Hijazi Arabic: acw لبنان f libnān Moroccan Arabic: ary لبنان lubnān North Levantine Arabic: apc لبنان libnēn Aramaic: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: aii ܠܸܒܢܵܢ libnan Armenian: hy Լիբանան Asturian: ast El Líbanu, ast Líbano, ast El Líbanu Azerbaijani: az Livan Bashkir: ba Ливан Belarusian: be Ліва́н m Bengali: bn লেবানন Breton: br Liban Bulgarian: bg Лива́н m Burmese: my လက်ဘနွန် Catalan: ca Líban m Cherokee: chr ᎴᏆᎾᏂ Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 黎巴嫩 Líbānèn Circassian: West Circassian: ady Ливан Crimean Tatar: crh Lübnan Czech: cs Libanon m Danish: da Libanon n Dhivehi: dv ލުބުނާން Dutch: nl Libanon n Esperanto: eo Libano Estonian: et Liibanon Faroese: fo Libanon n Finnish: fi Libanon French: fr Liban m Galician: gl Líbano m Georgian: ka ლიბანი German: de Libanon m Greek: el Λίβανος m Hausa: ha Labanan Hebrew: he לְבָנוֹן m l'vanón Hindi: hi लेबनान m, hi लेबनॉन m Hungarian: hu Libanon Icelandic: is Líbanon n Ido: io Libano Indonesian: id Lebanon Interlingua: ia Libano Irish: ga Liobáin f An Liobáin Italian: (il) it Libano m Japanese: ja レバノン Rebanon Kabuverdianu: kea Líbanu Kalenjin: kln Lebanon Kamba: kam Lebanon Kazakh: kk Ливан Khmer: km លីបង់ Kikuyu: ki Lebanon, ki Lebanon Korean: ko ^레바논 Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ckb لوبنان Northern Kurdish: kmr Libnan Kyrgyz: ky Ливан Lao: lo ລີບັງ Latvian: lv Libāna f Lithuanian: lt Libanas m Luhya: luy Lebanon Luo: luo Lebanon Macedonian: mk Ли́бан m Malay: ms Lubnan Maltese: mt Libanu il-Libanu Meru: mer Lebanon Mongolian: Cyrillic: mn Ливан Navajo: nv Łíbanoo Nicobarese: Car Nicobarese: caq Lëpanön Norman: nrf Liban m Norwegian: Bokmål: nb Libanon n Nynorsk: nn Libanon n Pashto: ps لبنان m lubnān Persian: Dari: prs لُبْنَان Iranian Persian: fa-ira لُبْنان Old Persian: peo 𐎾𐎲𐎴𐎠𐎴 labanāna Polish: pl Liban m Portuguese: o pt Líbano m Romanian: ro Liban m Russian: ru Лива́н m Scottish Gaelic: gd Leabanon f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Либан m, sh Ли̏банон m Latin: sh Liban m, sh Lȉbanon m Sicilian: scn Lìbbanu m Sinhalese: si ලෙබනනය Slovak: sk Libanon m Slovene: sl Líbanon m Somali: so Lubnaan Sotho: st Libanon Spanish: el es Líbano m Swahili: sw Lebanon Swedish: sv Libanon n Tagalog: tl Lebanon Tajik: tg Лубнон Tamil: ta லெபனான் Tatar: tt Ливан Telugu: te లెబనాన్ Thai: th เลบานอน Turkish: tr Lübnan Ottoman Turkish: ota لبنان Lübnan Turkmen: tk Liwan Ukrainian: uk Ліва́н m Urdu: ur لِبْنان m Uyghur: ug لىۋان Uzbek: uz Livan Vietnamese: vi Li-băng Welsh: cy Libanus m Yiddish: yi לבֿנון m levonen Yoruba: yo Lebanoni See also Countries of the world References Anagrams en abelnno nanobel en exonyms Cornish kw: Etymology kw en Lebanon, from kw hbo לְבָנוֹן ləḇānôn. Pronunciation kw /ˈlɛbanɔn/ Proper noun kw propn m kw Lebanon Q822 Coordinate terms Related terms kw derow Lebanon<t:Lebanon oaks> sedres Lebanon<t:cedars of Lebanon> lebanek<t:Lebanese><pos:a> Lebanyas,Lebanyades<t:Lebanese person><pos:n> Indonesian id: Alternative forms id Libanon Dutch-influenced Indonesian Etymology id sem-wes-pro From id en Lebanon, from id hbo לְבָנוֹן ləḇānôn. Cognate with ms Lubnan. Pronunciation id [lɛˈbanɔn] standard, English-influenced [liˈbanɔn] Dutch-influenced id Le ba non Proper noun id Lebanon Q822 See also Further reading Marshallese Proper noun proper noun mh Lebanon Q822 Tagalog Etymology tl :bor en:Lebanon 2 1 Pronunciation Lébanon Proper noun Lébanón + tl Lebanon Q822 tl Libano Coordinate terms