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Aleppo definition

ə-lĕp
(place) City in NW Syria.
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A city now in northern Syria, formerly an important city in the ancient world (Beroea of Seleucid empire).
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A city of northwest Syria near the Turkish border. Inhabited perhaps as early as the sixth millennium bc , Aleppo was a key point on the caravan route across Syria to Baghdad and later a major center of Christianity in the Middle East.
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Alternative Forms

Alternative Form of aleppo - Haleb, alep, halab

Origin of aleppo

  • From Italian Aleppo, from French Alep, from Turkish Halep, from Arabic حلب (Ḥalab), of uncertain origin. Folk-etymologically explained as from Arabic حَلَبَ (ḥalaba, “gave out milk”), coming from the ancient tradition that Abraham gave milk to travelers as they moved throughout the region. Attested in Akkadian as [script?] (Halab, Halap), Hittite [script?] (Ḫalpa), Ugaritic [script?] (Ḥlb), Aramaic [script?] (Ḥlb), Old Armenian Խաղաբ (Xałab).

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Aleppo Sentence Examples

  • Other trees of southern France are the cork-oak and the Aleppo and maritime pines.

  • On the collapse of the rebellion he fled to Turkey, adopted Mahommedanism, and under the name of Murad Pasha served as governor of Aleppo, at which place, at the risk of his life, he saved the Christian population from being massacred by the Moslems. Here he died on the 6th of September 1850.

  • His later life was spent in various parts of the Moslem world, in Aleppo with Saif-ud-Daula (to whom he dedicated the Book of Songs), in Rai with the Buyid vizier Ibn `Abbad and elsewhere.

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