Where does “Babylon” come from?

Babylon (Jamaican Creole) comes from English Babylon, from Latin Babylōn, from Ancient Greek Βαβυλών, from Akkadian Bābilim — Babylon.

Babylon (Jamaican Creole): cops, police law enforcement organisation

Definitions

  1. cops, police law enforcement organisation

Ancestry of “Babylon”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishBabylonAny city of great wealth, luxury and vice
2LatinBabylōn—
3Ancient GreekΒαβυλώνBabylon
4AkkadianBābilimBabylon
Every word from Akkadian Bābilim →Every word from Ancient Greek Βαβυλών →Every word from Latin Babylōn →
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