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Beirut (/ b eɪ ˈ r uː t /, bay-ROOT; [4] Arabic: بيروت, romanized: Bayrūt ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.As of 2014, Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, just under half of Lebanon's population, [5] which makes it the fourth-largest city in the Levant region and the sixteenth-largest in the Arab world.
Lebanese Arabic (Arabic: عَرَبِيّ لُبْنَانِيّ ʿarabiyy lubnāniyy; autonym: ʿarabe lebnēne [ˈʕaɾabe ləbˈneːne]), or simply Lebanese (Arabic: لُبْنَانِيّ lubnāniyy; autonym: lebnēne [ləbˈneːne]), is a group of accents or a variety of Levantine Arabic, indigenous to and primarily spoken in Lebanon, with some linguistic influences borrowed from other ...
Arabic script MSA plaque on Said Akl's statue in AUST's campus, Beirut Most Arabs struggle to write MSA correctly. [ 24 ] On social media [ 46 ] and when texting, they use their native variety, either in the Arabic script or Arabizi.
The governor of the Beirut Governate is Greek Orthodox according to tradition, while the mayor of the City of Beirut is Sunni Muslim. Beirut is known to be the most religiously diverse city in the Middle East. There are about 2.5 million people in Beirut and its suburbs (Greater Beirut). Beirut Skyline
Subject to convoluted and complex political machinations even at the best of times, tensions are rising in beleaguered Beirut, with three car bombs detonating in one month’s time.
Occupying 20 printed book volumes (in the most frequently cited edition), it is the best known dictionary of the Arabic language, [2] as well as one of the most comprehensive. Ibn Manzur compiled it from other sources to a large degree.
Greater Beirut, an urban agglomeration comprising the city of Beirut and the adjacent municipalities; Beirut Governorate, a Lebanese governorate; Beirut Vilayet, a first-level administrative division (vilayet) of the Ottoman Empire; Berytus, the ancient city of Beirut; Beirut River, a river in Lebanon; Beyrut, Iran, a village in Iran
Arabic is a language cluster comprising 30 or so modern varieties. [1] Arabic is the lingua franca of people who live in countries of the Arab world as well as of Arabs who live in the diaspora, particularly in Latin America (especially Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile and Colombia) or Western Europe (like France, Spain, Germany or Italy).