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Babylonian en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /bæbɪˈloʊnɪ.ən/ (US)
  • (US) audio
  • /bæbɪˈləʊnɪ.ən/ (UK)

Etymology

From Latin Babylōnius (“of Babylon, Babylonian”) (from Ancient Greek Βαβυλώνιος (Babulṓnios)) + -an. By surface analysis, Babylon + -ian. Piecewise doublet of Babelian.

Meanings

  1. (historical, not-comparable) Pertaining to the city of Babylon, or the Babylonian Empire.
  2. (derogatory, not-comparable, obsolete) Roman Catholic (with reference to e.g. Revelation 14–18).
    • [W]e, on our parts, have learned to speak only the primitive language of the law, and not the confused jargon of their Babylonian pulpits. 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford, published 2009, page 29:
  3. (figuratively, not-comparable) Characteristic of Babylon or its civilization and inhabitants; huge, decadent, indulgent. .
    • The first was in the Babylonian halls of the big hotel, which was the meeting place of the three commercial magnates concerned with arranging for a coal lock-out and denouncing it as a coal strike, 1926, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Ghost of Gideon Wise”, in The Incredulity of Father Brown:

Deriveds

Jewish Babylonian Aramaic · Middle Babylonian · Babylonian Talmud · Neo-Babylonian

Synonyms

Babylonic

Translations (30)

nn babylonsk (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · el βαβυλωνιακός (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · nb babylonsk (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · de babylonisch (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · nn babylonisk (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · ca babiloni (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · la Babylonius (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · pl babiloński (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · gl babilónico (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · pt babilônico (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · pt babilônio (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · pt babilónio (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · da babylonsk (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · ga Bablónach (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · ca babilònic (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · vo ela Babylon (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · it babilonico (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · ru вавило́нский (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · nl Babylonisch (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · vo Babülonik (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · nb babylonisk (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · cs babylónský (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · fr babylonien (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · da babylonisk (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · sv babylonisk (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · es babilonio (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · la babylōnicus (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · fi babylonialainen (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · pt babilónico (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon) · hi बाबिली (pertaining to the city or empire of Babylon)

Babylonian en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /bæbɪˈloʊnɪ.ən/ (US)
  • (US) audio
  • /bæbɪˈləʊnɪ.ən/ (UK)

Etymology

From Latin Babylōnius (“of Babylon, Babylonian”) (from Ancient Greek Βαβυλώνιος (Babulṓnios)) + -an. By surface analysis, Babylon + -ian. Piecewise doublet of Babelian.

Meanings

  1. An inhabitant of the city of Babylon.
  2. An inhabitant of Babylonia, which included Chaldea; a Chaldean.
  3. An astrologer; so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.

Forms

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Babylonians Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (46)

lv Babilonietis (person from the city of Babylon) · ru вавило́нянка (person from the city of Babylon) · nn babyloniar (person from the city of Babylon) · vo ji-Babülonan (person from the city of Babylon) · vo Babülonan (person from the city of Babylon) · nb babylonier (person from the city of Babylon) · pl babilonka (person from the kingdom of Babylonia) · pl babilończyk (person from the kingdom of Babylonia) · el Βαβυλώνιος (person from the city of Babylon) · fi babylonialainen (person from the kingdom of Babylonia) · nb babyloner (person from the kingdom of Babylonia) · ru вавило́нянин (person from the kingdom of Babylonia) · nn babyloniar (person from the kingdom of Babylonia) · de Babylonier (person from the city of Babylon) · hi बाबिली (person from the city of Babylon) · nb babyloner (person from the city of Babylon) · pl babilończyk (person from the city of Babylon) · vo Babülonänan (person from the kingdom of Babylonia) · cs Babylóňan (person from the city of Babylon) · vo ji-Babülonänan (person from the kingdom of Babylonia) · peo 𐎲𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎽𐎢𐏁 (person from the city of Babylon) · ga Bablónach (person from the city of Babylon) · ca babiloni (person from the city of Babylon) · ru вавило́нянка (person from the kingdom of Babylonia) · el Βαβυλώνια (person from the city of Babylon) · ca babiloni (person from the kingdom of Babylonia) · hi बाबिली (person from the kingdom of Babylonia) · da babylonier (person from the kingdom of Babylonia) · nb babylonier (person from the kingdom of Babylonia) · ca babilònia (person from the kingdom of Babylonia) · fa بابلی (person from the city of Babylon) · fi babylonialainen (person from the city of Babylon) · nn babylonar (person from the city of Babylon) · de Babylonierin (person from the city of Babylon) · vo hi-Babülonan (person from the city of Babylon) · hi बाबिली (person from the city of Babylon) · de Babylonier (person from the kingdom of Babylonia) · pl babilonka (person from the city of Babylon) · vo hi-Babülonänan (person from the kingdom of Babylonia) · nn babylonar (person from the kingdom of Babylonia) · lv Babiloniete (person from the city of Babylon) · ga Bablónach (person from the kingdom of Babylonia) · de Babylonierin (person from the kingdom of Babylonia) · ca babilònia (person from the city of Babylon) · ru вавило́нянин (person from the city of Babylon) · da babyloner (person from the kingdom of Babylonia)

Babylonian en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /bæbɪˈloʊnɪ.ən/ (US)
  • (US) audio
  • /bæbɪˈləʊnɪ.ən/ (UK)

Etymology

From Latin Babylōnius (“of Babylon, Babylonian”) (from Ancient Greek Βαβυλώνιος (Babulṓnios)) + -an. By surface analysis, Babylon + -ian. Piecewise doublet of Babelian.

Meanings

  1. A later form of the Akkadian language spoken in Babylonia from 1950 BCE to 100 CE.

Deriveds

Assyro-Babylonian

Translations (7)

vo babülon (Akkadian language) · hi बाबिली (Akkadian language) · cs babylónština (Akkadian language) · ga Bablóinis (Akkadian language) · vo Babülonänapük (Akkadian language) · ca babiloni (Akkadian language) · de Babylonisch (Akkadian language)