Usage: English, German, Dutch, Biblical, Ancient Roman, Biblical Latin, Ancient Greek, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Βαβυλών(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: BAB-i-lahn(English) BA-buy-lawn(German) BA-bee-lawn(German, Dutch)
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Greek form of Akkadian
𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠 (Babili), which appears to mean
"gateway of God", from Akkadian
𒆍 (babu) meaning "gate" and
𒀭 (ilu) meaning "God", though it may in fact derive from a non-Semitic language. This was the name of a major city in ancient Mesopotamia, the capital of the Babylonian Empire. It was located in present-day
Iraq.