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語源

Borrowed from French levant (“rising, sun's point of rising”), form of lever (“to rise”), from Latin levō (“to rise”) (cf. also the present participle levāns), from levis (“light, not heavy”).

発音

• IPA: /ləˈvænt/
• (General American) IPA: /ləˈvɑnt/, /lɪˈvɑnt/, /ləˈvænt/
• 韻: -ænt

固有名詞

the Levant

1. A cultural region of West Asia, consisting of the countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea, namely Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus (and sometimes, especially in a historical context, also including Turkey and Egypt, then part of the Ottoman Empire).

   Synonyms: Mashreq, Greater Syria

   • 1948 October, Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm (The Second World War), volume I, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, book I (From War to War: 1919–1939), page 171:

     I see by the newspapers that the Mediterranean Fleet is leaving Malta for the Levant.

等位語

• Maghreb (western Mediterranean, literally “where the sun sets”)
• Ponant

派生語

名詞

Levant (plural Levants)

1. An easterly wind, generally in the western Mediterranean Sea.

   Synonym: levanter

2. A type of leather.
   • 1976, Geoffrey Wolff, Black Sun, New York Review of Books, published 2003, page 173:

     [I]t was bound by G. Levitsky […] in turquoise Levant, stamped back and front with the Crosby crest in gold.

Further reading

• Levant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Levant (wind) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• -valent, valent, vental