The story
- sem-wes-pro · derived from*laban-“white”
- Biblical Hebrew · borrowed fromלְבָנוֹן
- English todayLebanon
The country's name comes from the name of the mountain range, which in turn comes from Biblical Hebrew לְבָנוֹן (ləḇānôn), from Proto-West Semitic *laban- (“white”) (compare Hebrew לָבָן (lāḇān, “white”), Arabic لَبَن (laban, “milk”)).
Words from the same roots
sem-wes-pro*laban- all →
benzoin
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.