English Explanatory Dictionary

Phoenicia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The land of city states of the Phoenicians which around 1000 BC was situated on the coast of present day Syria and Lebanon, and included the cities of Tyre and Sidon.
  2. The trading empire of the Phoenicians which spread across most of the eastern Mediterranean Sea as far west as Sicily.

Pronunciation

/fəˈnɪʃɪə/ /fəˈniːʃɪə/ /fəˈnɪʃə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Phoenicia.wav

Word forms

Phoenicia Phenicia Phœnicia

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Phoenicia, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek Φοινίκη (Phoiníkē). The word is already found in the Mycenaean Greek ethnonym 𐀡𐀛𐀑𐀍 (po-ni-ki-jo). Ultimately from Egyptian fnḫw, f:n:x-w-V12:Z2 ‘Canaanites, Syrians’.

Derived words

Heliopolis in Phoenicia Phoenician

Translations

Arabic: فِينِيقِيَا Armenian: Փյունիկիա Basque: Fenizia Bengali: ফিনিশিয়া Bengali: ফোনিশিয়া Bulgarian: Фини́кия Catalan: Fenícia Chinese Cantonese: 腓尼基 Chinese Mandarin: 腓尼基 Czech: Fénicie Danish: Fønikien Dutch: Fenicië Esperanto: Fenicio Faroese: Fønikia Finnish: Foinikia French: Phénicie German: Phönizien Ancient Greek: Φοινίκη Hawaiian: Poinikia Hungarian: Fönícia Irish: an Fhéiníc Italian: Fenicia Japanese: フェニキア Kazakh: Финикия Latin: Phoenīcia Malay: Finiq Malay: فينيق Maltese: Feniċja Persian: فنیقیه Phoenician: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 Polish: Fenicja Portuguese: Fenícia Romanian: Fenicia Russian: Финики́я Slovak: Fenícia Spanish: Fenicia Swedish: Fenicien Tajik: Финиқия Turkish: Fenike Ukrainian: Фінікі́я Volapük: Fönikiyän
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