Orient (the countries of Asia) · Levant (a cultural region of West Asia consisting of the eastern Mediterranean countries, i.e. Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus)
zıt: Ponant
köken: See levant.
aile: État islamique en Irak et au Levant, levantin, Levantin
köken: From the old present active participle of levar (Old Spanish form of llevar). Corresponds to Latin levantem (“raising”), in reference to the rising of the sun.
Levant (a cultural region of West Asia consisting of the eastern Mediterranean countries, i.e. Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus) · the Levant, levanter (an easterly Mediterranean wind)
alternative form of レバント (Rebanto): Levant (a cultural region of West Asia consisting of the eastern Mediterranean countries, i.e. Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus)
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷséps Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšápā Proto-Iranian *xšápā Proto-Iranian *-yah Proto-Iranian *xšáfnyah Classical Persian شامbor. Hindi शाम Borrowed from Classical Persian شام (šām), from Proto-Iranian *xšáfnyah. Cognate with Sanskrit क्षप् (kṣap, “night”); despite phonetic and semantic similarity, not related to Sanskrit श्यामा (śyāmā, “night, shadow”), which…