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Libyan

Libyan

3 3.6
A person from Libya
  • noun
  • /ˈlɪbiən/
translation icon : libio
  • This was a private family compound owned by a wealthy Libyan who got out of town after the revolution and leased it to the CIA.

And then you have the Somalis and then you have the the Libyans and then you've got Hambali down in Indonesia or Malaysia or wherever it was that he was.

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Examples

  • My visitors told me that every Libyan was now discussing the Lockerbie proposal.

    Academic text (1999)

  • I see she is Libyan.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • I am Libyan and I know all these things.

    Blog text (22)

  • And that certainly meant most Libyans welcomed it.

  • I am Libyan and I am definitely in favor of arming our national army, not the amateur rebels.

    Blog text (22)

  • I am Libyan, and Kaddafi has always killed Libyans in cold blood.

    Blog text (22)

  • And at that school I had eight Libyan refugees who just arrived from a war-torn country and the principal said they're yours for the rest of the year.

  • At FBI headquarters in Washington, spokesman Michael Kortan on Wednesday declined to comment on the Libyan's conduct of the probe.

    Blog text (13)

  • In an official account provided Wednesday by the Obama administration, embassy security staff—both American and Libyan—failed to break the assault.

    Blog text (14)

  • Every Libyan I've met is proud of their country's rich history.

Compounds

Libyan Islamic Fighting Group
  • NSFW
1 9.9

An armed group from Libya formed in 1995 that was against the government and joined al-Qaeda

Libyan Desert
5.1

A dry, sandy part of the Sahara Desert in Libya, Egypt, and Sudan

Libyan dinar
5.3

The official money used in Libya

Libyan dirham
8.3

A Libyan coin or note worth one hundredth of a dinar

Libyan Fighting Group
  • NSFW
9.9

An armed group from Libya linked to al-Qaeda that uses violence to oppose Qaddafi

Libyan Islamic Group
  • NSFW
9.1

A Libyan armed group formed in 1995 that opposed the government and was linked to al-Qaeda

Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
9.9

The official name of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi from 1977 to 2011

Surface Forms

Libyan singular
Libyans plural

Morphology

Libyan = Libya (transparent) = Libya + n

The suffix '-n' is a common English derivation to form demonyms from country names.

Etymology

Libyan comes from the name Libya, which was used long ago for the region on North Africa's Mediterranean coast. So a Libyan is 'a person from Libya'.