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Babylon
mid-14c., from Greek version of Akkadian
Bab-ilani
"the gate of the gods," from
bab
"gate" +
ilani
, plural of
ilu
"god" (see
Babel
). The Old Persian form,
Babiru-
, shows characteristic transformation of
-l-
to
-r-
in words assimilated from Semitic.