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Levantine cuisine, the cuisine of the Levant; Levantine Cultural Center, subsequently The Markaz, a cultural center in Los Angeles, California; Batavia (cloth), also called "Levantine", a type of cloth originally produced in the Levant. Turkish Levantine, descendants of Europeans who settled in parts of the Ottoman Empire.
The term Levant appears in English in 1497, and originally meant 'the East' or 'Mediterranean lands east of Italy'. [23] It is borrowed from the French levant 'rising', referring to the rising of the sun in the east, [23] or the point where the sun rises. [24] The phrase is ultimately from the Latin word levare, meaning 'lift, raise'.
Levantine is spoken in the fertile strip on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean: from the Turkish coastal provinces of Adana, Hatay, and Mersin in the north [48] to the Negev, passing through Lebanon, the coastal regions of Syria (Latakia and Tartus governorates) as well as around Aleppo and Damascus, [4] the Hauran in Syria and Jordan, [49] [50] the rest of western Jordan, [51] Palestine ...
The lexicon of Levantine is overwhelmingly Arabic. [3] Many words, such as verbal nouns (also called gerunds or masdar [4]) are derived from a verb root.For instance مدرسة madrase 'school', from درس daras 'to study, to learn'.
A spread of classic Levantine meze dishes, including, from top, clockwise: hummus, fried haloumi, baba ganouj, makdous and salad. Levantine cuisine is the traditional cuisine of the Levant, in the sense of the rough area of former Ottoman Syria. The cuisine has similarities with Egyptian cuisine, North African cuisine and Ottoman cuisine.
South Levantine Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة الشامية الجنوبية, romanized: al-lahja š-šāmiyya l-janūbiyya, South Levantine: il-lahje š-šāmiyye l-jnūbiyye) was defined in the ISO 639-3 international standard for language codes as a distinct Arabic variety, under the ajp code.
Levantine Arabic grammar is the set of rules by which Levantine Arabic creates statements, questions and commands. In many respects, it is quite similar to that of the other vernacular Arabic varieties .
Boundaries of the Levant Basin, or Levantine Basin (US EIA) The Leviathan gas field is quite central in the south-eastern corner, the Levantine Basin. [3] [4]To the west of the Levantine Deep Marine Basin is the Nile Delta Basin, followed by the Herodotus Basin, 130,000 km 2 (50,000 sq mi) large and up to 3,200 m (10,500 ft) deep, [5] which – at a possible age of 340 million years – is ...