Editing Lebanon (section)

== Etymology ==
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The name of [[Mount Lebanon]] originates from the [[Phoenician language|Phoenician]] [[Semitic root|root]] ''{{lang|sem|lbn}}'' ([[wikt:𐤋𐤁𐤍|𐤋𐤁𐤍]]) meaning "white", apparently from its snow-capped peaks.<ref>{{cite book |title=Placenames of the World: Origins and Meanings of the Names for 6,621 Countries, Cities, Territories, Natural Features and Historic Sites |last1=Room |first1=Adrian |edition=2nd |year=2005 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-2248-7 |pages=214–216 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M1JIPAN-eJ4C&pg=PA214 |access-date=20 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905180538/https://books.google.com/books?id=M1JIPAN-eJ4C&pg=PA214 |archive-date=5 September 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn | Coogan | Smith | 2012 | p=177}} Occurrences of the name have been found in different [[Middle Bronze Age]] texts from the library of [[Ebla]],<ref>{{cite book|title=The Oxford guide to people and places of the Bible |last1=Metzger |first1=Bruce M. |last2=Coogan |first2=Michael D. |year=2004 |publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-517610-0 |page=178}}</ref> and three of the twelve tablets of the [[Epic of Gilgamesh]].
The name is recorded in Egypt as ''[[:wikt:rmnn|rmnn]]'' ({{langx|egy|𓂋𓏠𓈖𓈖𓈉}}; it had no letter corresponding to ''l'').<ref>{{cite web| title=The Pronunciation of Ancient Egyptian| last=Ross| first=Kelley L| work=The Proceedings of the Friesian School, Fourth Series|url=http://www.friesian.com/egypt.htm| publisher=Friesian School| access-date=20 January 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090125040619/http://friesian.com/egypt.htm| archive-date=25 January 2009| url-status=dead| df=dmy-all}}</ref>
The name occurs nearly 70 times in the [[Hebrew Bible]] as {{lang|he|לְבָנוֹן}} ''Ləḇānon''.<ref>{{cite book|title=Dictionary of the ancient Near East |last1=Bienkowski |first1=Piotr |last2=Millard |first2=Alan Ralph |year=2000|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=978-0-8122-3557-9 |page=178}}</ref>

''Lebanon'' as the name of an administrative unit (as opposed to the mountain range) that was introduced with the [[Tanzimat|Ottoman reforms of 1861]] as the ''[[Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate]]'' ({{langx|ar|متصرفية جبل لبنان}}; {{langx|tr|Cebel-i Lübnan Mutasarrıflığı}}), continued in the name of [[Greater Lebanon]] ({{langx|ar|دولة لبنان الكبير}} ''{{transliteration|ar|Dawlat Lubnān al-Kabīr}}''; {{langx|fr|État du Grand Liban}}) in 1920, and eventually in the name of the sovereign ''Republic of Lebanon'' ({{langx|ar|الجمهورية اللبنانية}} {{transliteration|ar|''al-Jumhūriyyah al-Lubnāniyyah''}}) upon its independence in 1943.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}