What does the word BABEL mean ? this is the film name that win oscar .?

Answer 1

Babel (Hebrew: בָּבֶל‎; Bavel) is the name used in the Hebrew Bible for the city of Babylon (Akkadian Babilu), notable in Genesis as the supposed location of the Tower of Babel.

In Gen. 11:9, the name of Babel is etymologized by association with the Hebrew verb balal, "to confuse or confound": Balal is regarded as a contraction of earlier *balbal. The name bab-ilu in Akkadian means "gate of god" (from bab "gate" + ilu "god"). The word "bab-el" can also be seen to mean "gate of god" (from bab "gate" + el "god"). (see also Bahai)

Answer 2

1)A confusion of sounds or voices.
2)A scene of noise and confusion.

word origin

babel
from Akkadian
This word originated in Iraq

It's in the Book: the story of why we use babel to mean a noisy clash of languages and speakers, all striving in vain to be heard and understood. According to the Hebrew Bible, God was worried that humans communicating with one another would get too uppity, so He split up their language in a place called Babel. In the King James Version, here is the gist of the story from Genesis 11:

The last sentence suggests that the name Babel means "confusion" in the original Hebrew. But it doesn't, except in this sentence. It is simply the Hebrew name for the city of Babylon. Perhaps that was enough; Babylon must have had a noisy variety of languages in biblical times. In any case, Babel came to Hebrew from Akkadian, the chief language of Babylon. The Akkadian Bab-ilu means "gate of God" and is probably a translation from an earlier Sumerian term, Ka-dingir.

The ancient city of Babylon, on the Euphrates River about fifty miles south of present-day Baghdad, exists only in ruins today, and there are no speakers of ancient Akkadian left. It was a Semitic language, related to Arabic and Hebrew, and spoken thousands of years ago in the land now known as Iraq. Another Akkadian word in English is ziggurat (1877), the name for a style of step pyramid used by the Babylonians as a temple.

In English, the name Babel was used as early as 1382 by John Wycliffe in his translation of the Bible. By 1529 it also was being used with today's broader meaning of any incoherent collection of noise or speech. Strangely enough, the word with two b's, babble, is not related but goes back to a common Indo-European word imitating the sound to which it refers.

Answer 3

From the Tower of Babel in the Bible.

Answer 4

this is a tower in Iraq(nowadays) and it was built to challenge god and try to reach the sky but god destroy the tower by a lightening, the director chose this name i guess from the bible.

Answer 5

hello

Answer 6

If it is Hindi/Urdu word it means, father.

Answer 7

try this link :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon