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Lybian

Lybian is the archaic form of Libyan.

Meaning of Libyan

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

See all 3 meanings of Libyan

Forms of Lybian

pluralLybians

Origin of Lybian

From Lybia + -an.

Phrases with Lybian

Questions about Lybian

What is Lybian the archaic form of?
Lybian is the archaic form of Libyan.

Words near Lybian in the dictionary

  1. Lybarger
  2. Lybargers
  3. Lybbert
  4. Lybberts
  5. Lybia
  6. Lybian
  7. Lybian Arab Jamahiriya
  8. Lybians
  9. Lybrand
  10. Lybrands
  11. Lybster

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Lybian (page history and authors); Libyan (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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