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Type Political Subdivision & Settlement
Usage English, Italian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German, Indonesian, Kazakh, Korean, Malay, Maltese, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Ukrainian
Scripts Алеппо(Kazakh, Mongolian Cyrillic, Russian, Ukrainian) 알레포(Korean Hangul) อะเลปโป(Thai)
Pronounced Pron. ə-LEH-po(British English, American English) a-LEHP-po(Italian) a-LEH-po(German) AL-LEH-PO(Korean) a-LEHP-paw(Polish) u-LYEHP-pə(Russian) a-lehp-PO(Thai) u-LEHP-paw(Ukrainian) [key·IPA]
Meaning & History
Italian form of Arabic حلب (Halab) of uncertain meaning. It may be derived from حَلَب (halaba) meaning "to give out milk", a reference to the traditional belief that Abraham distributed milk to travelers in the region. This is the name of a governorate of, as well as a city in, Syria.