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Libyan

Syllables: Lib·y·an/ˈlɪbi.ən/

Libyan adjective: of, from, or pertaining to Libya.

Adjective

Libyan (not comparable)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Libya.
    • More than 40,000 would-be migrants to Europe have been intercepted at sea since Italy began paying and equipping the Libyan coastguard to do so in 2017.2020 February 13, Roland Oliphant, “'I have lost four years of my life': the desperate migrants stuck in squalid Libyan camps”, in The Telegraph, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2025

Noun

Libyan (plural Libyans)

  1. A person from Libya or of Libyan descent.
    • No one in Faya forgets that French air force raids drove the Libyans out of Faya, prompting them to abandon their tanks with less than Gaddafian revolutionary zeal and hightail it back home on foot.2005, Jeffrey Tayler, Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat, and Camel
    • Their frustration has surfaced in protests in several Libyan cities over the last few days, most notably in Benghazi, the seat of the revolution, where Libyans stormed the National Transitional Council building.2012 January 26, Moni Basu, “Libyans face tough challenges in building a new nation”, in CNN

Proper noun

Libyan

  1. The Libyan Arabic language.

Libyan meaning in Hindi, Bengali and Arabic

Libyan in Hindi

Libyan
लीबियाई lībiyāī

Libyan in Bengali

লিবীয়

Libyan in Arabic

Of, from, or pertaining to Libya, the Libyan people or the Libyan language
لِيبِيّ lībiyy
person
لِيبِيّ lībiyy, لِيبِيَّة lībiyya

Forms of Libyan

pluralLibyans

Origin of Libyan

From Libya + -an. English since the 16th century.

Words formed from Libyan

Phrases with Libyan

Words that rhyme with Libyan

Questions about Libyan

What does Libyan mean?
Libyan means of, from, or pertaining to Libya.
What is Libyan in Hindi?
Libyan in Hindi is लीबियाई (lībiyāī). See Libyan meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is Libyan?
Libyan can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Libyan?
Libyan is pronounced /ˈlɪbi.ən/.

Words near Libyan in the dictionary

  1. Liburnia
  2. Liburnian
  3. Liburnians
  4. Libuton
  5. Libya
  6. Libyan
  7. Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
  8. Libyan Arabic
  9. Libyanization
  10. Libyanize
  11. Libyanized

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Libyan (page history and authors); लीबियाई (Hindi) (page history and authors); Libyan (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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