Levant

Senso (Inglese)

Name

A cultural region of West Asia, consisting of the countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea, namely Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus (and sometimes, especially in a historical context, also including Turkey and Egypt, then part of the Ottoman Empire).

Noun

1. An easterly wind, generally in the western Mediterranean Sea.
2. A type of leather.

Concetti

levante

Levante

Repubblica turca

Turchia

🇹🇷

sinonimi

Levant morocco

Turkey

🦃

Hagia Sophia

Near East

Maiden’s Tower

Traduzioni

Levant

Levant

Levante

Levante

بلاد الشام

Λεβάντες

اَلْمَشْرِق اَلْعَرَبِيّ

مَشْرِق

شرق

Τουρκία

λεβάντες

Türkei

🇹🇷

Εγγύς Ανατολή

Republik Türkei

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈlɛv.ənt/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Borrowed from French levant (“rising, sun's point of rising”), form of lever (“to rise”), from Latin levō (“to rise”) (cf. also the present participle levāns), from levis (“light, not heavy”).