Beirut
Syllables: Bei·rut/beɪˈɹuːt/
Beirut proper noun: the capital and largest city of Lebanon.
Proper noun
Beirut
- The capital and largest city of Lebanon.
- An Israeli airstrike rocked southern Beirut on Sunday soon after the military issued an evacuation warning for the Lebanese capital.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
- The Lebanese government.
- The drinking game of beer pong.
Beirut meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Pashto
Beirut in Hindi
- capital and largest city of Lebanon
- बेरूत berūt
Beirut in Urdu
- capital and largest city of Lebanon
- بَیرُوت bairūt
Beirut in Bengali
- capital and largest city of Lebanon
- বৈরুত bōirut
Beirut in Pashto
- capital and largest city of Lebanon
- بيروت birut
More languagesFewer languages
- Beirut in Arabic
- بَيْرُوت bayrūt
- Beirut in Malay
- Beirut
- Beirut in Indonesian
- Beirut
- Beirut in Thai
- เบรุต bee-rút
- Beirut in Vietnamese
- Bây-rút
- Beirut in Myanmar
- ဘေရွတ်မြို့ bherwatmrui.
Forms of Beirut
| alternative form (dated) | Beyrout |
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Origin of Beirut
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.
Words formed from Beirut
Words that rhyme with Beirut
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- cute
- moot
- overshoot
- recruit
- salute
- volute
- dispute
- impute
- pollute
- scoot
- snoot
- substitute
- chute
- depute
- dilute
- hoot
- loot
- pursuit
- reboot
- scute
- uproot
- cahoot
- Clute
- convolute
- lute
- zoot
- ablute
- Aleut
- argute
- astute
- beaut
- bruit
- compute
- coot
- doot
- en route
- glout
- jute
- minute
- newt
- poot
- refute
- repute
- resolute
- 'tute
- angel lute
- butte
- cheroot
Questions about Beirut
- What does Beirut mean?
- Beirut means the capital and largest city of Lebanon.
- What is Beirut in Hindi?
- Beirut in Hindi is बेरूत (berūt). See Beirut meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Beirut?
- Beirut is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Beirut?
- Beirut is pronounced /beɪˈɹuːt/.
Words near Beirut in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Beirut (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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