Libyan en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈlɪbi.ən/
- lĭbʹē-ən
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Libya + -an. English since the 16th century.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of, from, or pertaining to Libya.
More than 40,000 would-be migrants to Europe have been intercepted at sea since Italy began paying and equipping the Libyan coastguard to do so in 2017.
2020 February 13, Roland Oliphant, “'I have lost four years of my life': the desperate migrants stuck in squalid Libyan camps”, in The Telegraph, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2025:
Deriveds
Libyanize · Libyanness · Libyanization
Translations (25)
es libio (Of, from, or pertaining to Libya, the Libyan people or the Libyan language) · nb libysk (Of, from, or pertaining to Libya, the Libyan people or the Libyan language) · gl libio (Of, from, or pertaining to Libya, the Libyan people or the Libyan language) · cs libyjský (Of, from, or pertaining to Libya, the Libyan people or the Libyan language) · ast libiu (Of, from, or pertaining to Libya, the Libyan people or the Libyan language) · eo libia (Of, from, or pertaining to Libya, the Libyan people or the Libyan language) · ca libi (Of, from, or pertaining to Libya, the Libyan people or the Libyan language) · nn libysk (Of, from, or pertaining to Libya, the Libyan people or the Libyan language) · ro libian (Of, from, or pertaining to Libya, the Libyan people or the Libyan language) · ru ливи́йский (Of, from, or pertaining to Libya, the Libyan people or the Libyan language) · de libysch (Of, from, or pertaining to Libya, the Libyan people or the Libyan language) · it libico (Of, from, or pertaining to Libya, the Libyan people or the Libyan language) · sv libysk (Of, from, or pertaining to Libya, the Libyan people or the Libyan language) · nl Libisch (Of, from, or pertaining to Libya, the Libyan people or the Libyan language) · da libysk (Of, from, or pertaining to Libya, the Libyan people or the Libyan language) · fr libyque (Of, from, or pertaining to Libya, the Libyan people or the Libyan language) · hy լիբիական (Of, from, or pertaining to Libya, the Libyan people or the Libyan language) · pl libijski (Of, from, or pertaining to Libya, the Libyan people or the Libyan language) · sw Kilibya (Of, from, or pertaining to Libya, the Libyan people or the Libyan language) · fr libyen (Of, from, or pertaining to Libya, the Libyan people or the Libyan language) · ca líbic (Of, from, or pertaining to Libya, the Libyan people or the Libyan language) · af Libies (Of, from, or pertaining to Libya, the Libyan people or the Libyan language) · ar لِيبِيّ (Of, from, or pertaining to Libya, the Libyan people or the Libyan language) · pt líbio (Of, from, or pertaining to Libya, the Libyan people or the Libyan language) · fi libyalainen (Of, from, or pertaining to Libya, the Libyan people or the Libyan language)