Levantine

See also: levantine

English

Etymology

From Levant +‎ -ine (“of”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛvəntaɪn/

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Adjective

Levantine (not comparable)

1. Of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean.

   Antonym: Ponentine

   • 2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times‎:

     [O]ne minute this "Jihadi John" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento intent on subjecting the world to its murderous brand of Wahhabi Islam.

Translations

of the Levant, the Eastern Mediterranean

Arabic: شَامِيّ (šāmiyy) Bengali: শামী (bn) (śamī) Catalan: llevantí Chinese: Mandarin: 黎凡特的 (Lífántè de) Czech: levantský Dutch: Levantijns (nl) Finnish: levanttilainen French: levantin (fr) German: levantinisch (de), morgenländisch Greek: λεβαντίνος (el) (levantínos) Hebrew: לֶבַנְטִינִי Hindi: please add this translation if you can Irish: Leiveantach Italian: levantino (it) Japanese: please add this translation if you can Kazakh: please add this translation if you can Manx: Levaantagh Persian: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: levantino Romanian: levantin (ro) m Russian: леванти́йский (ru) (levantíjskij) Swedish: levantinsk c Tamil: please add this translation if you can

Noun

Levantine (plural Levantines)

1. Synonym of Franco-Levantine.

Anagrams

• Valentine, valentine

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lə.vɑ̃.tin/

Noun

Levantine f (plural Levantines)

1. female equivalent of Levantin