Levant

累范特

发音

/ləˈvænt/
US /ləˈvɑnt/
US /lɪˈvɑnt/
US /ləˈvænt/

词形变化

Levants 复数 Levants the Levant

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An easterly wind, generally in the western Mediterranean Sea.

  2. 2.

    A type of leather.

name
  1. 1.

    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).

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词源

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”).

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