Beirut

• (city): Beyrout (dated)

From Ottoman Turkish بیروت (beyrût), from Arabic بَيْرُوت (bayrūt), ultimately from Phoenician 𐤁𐤓𐤕 (brt /⁠bērūt⁠/), from Proto-West Semitic *biʾrāt- (“wells”). Doublet of Berytus and Beeroth.

• enPR: bā-ro͞otʹ, IPA^(key): /beɪˈɹuːt/^[1]

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• Hyphenation: Bei‧rut
• Rhymes: -uːt

Beirut

2. The capital and largest city of Lebanon.
   • 2025 April 27, Oren Liebermann, Charbel Mallo, Michael Rios, Eyad Kourdi and Dana Karni, “Israeli airstrike rocks southern Beirut after military issues evacuation warning”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     An Israeli airstrike rocked southern Beirut on Sunday soon after the military issued an evacuation warning for the Lebanese capital.

4. The drinking game of beer pong.

• Beiruti
• Berytus

• Iturbe, biuret, Uberti

Beirut

1. Beirut (the capital city of Lebanon)

• IPA^(key): /baɪ̯ˈʁuːt/, /ˈbaɪ̯ʁuːt/, (both also) /bɛɪ̯-/

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Beirut n (proper noun, genitive Beiruts or (optionally with an article) Beirut)

1. Beirut (the capital city of Lebanon)

• Bayreuth (not to be confused)

• IPA^(key): /beiˈɾut/ [bei̯ˈɾut̪]
• Rhymes: -ut
• Syllabification: Bei‧rut

Beirut ?

1. Beirut (the capital city of Lebanon)

Beirut n (genitive Beiruts)

1. Beirut (the capital city of Lebanon)