Etymology

Beirut

Bei·rut
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Today it means: The capital and largest city of Lebanon. Full definition →

Ottoman Turkish بیروت ← Arabic بَيْرُوت ← Phoenician 𐤁𐤓𐤕
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The story

  1. sem-wes-pro · derived from*biʾrāt-“wells”
  2. Phoenician · derived from𐤁𐤓𐤕
  3. Arabic · derived fromبَيْرُوت
  4. Ottoman Turkish · borrowed fromبیروت
  5. English todayBeirut

From Ottoman Turkish بیروت (beyrût), from Arabic بَيْرُوت (bayrūt), ultimately from Phoenician 𐤁𐤓𐤕 (brt /⁠bērūt⁠/), from Proto-West Semitic *biʾrāt- (“wells”). Doublet of Berytus and Beeroth.

Words from the same roots

Phoenician𐤁𐤓𐤕 all →

Berytus

sem-wes-pro*biʾrāt- all →

Beeroth

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.