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Phoenicia

/fəˈnɪʃɪə/

Phoenicia proper noun: 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.

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Proper noun

Phoenicia

  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.

Phoenicia meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Arabic and Malay

Phoenicia in Tamil

இது ஒரு நாடாகும்

Phoenicia in Bengali

land of the Phoenicians
ফিনিশিয়া phiniśiẏa, ফোনিশিয়া phōniśiẏa

Phoenicia in Arabic

land of the Phoenicians
فِينِيقِيَا fīnīqiyā

Phoenicia in Malay

land of the Phoenicians
Finiq
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Phoenicia in Persian
فنیقیه feniqiye

Forms of Phoenicia

alternative form (nonstandard)Phenicia
alternative form (archaic)Phœnicia

Origin of Phoenicia

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’.

Words formed from Phoenicia

Questions about Phoenicia

What does Phoenicia mean?
Phoenicia means 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.
What is Phoenicia in Tamil?
Phoenicia in Tamil is இது ஒரு நாடாகும். See Phoenicia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Phoenicia?
Phoenicia is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Phoenicia?
Phoenicia is pronounced /fəˈnɪʃɪə/.

Words near Phoenicia in the dictionary

  1. Phoeby
  2. Phoenecian
  3. Phoenecians
  4. phoeniceous
  5. phoenices
  6. Phoenicia
  7. Phoenician
  8. Phoenicianism
  9. Phoenicianist
  10. Phoenicianists
  11. Phoenicianness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Phoenicia (page history and authors); Phoenicia (Tamil 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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