Semaan (Syriac Aramaic: ܫܡܥܘܢ Šemʿōn ; Arabic: سمعان, Semʻān) (also spelled Sem'an, Semán, Simaan, Sim'an, Samaan, Sam'an, Sima'an) is a Christian surname mainly found in the Levant area of the Middle East. It is derived from the Semitic root word/verb sema or shema, which means “to hear”; thus, the meaning of Semaan becomes “the one who hears or listens” in both Syriac Aramaic and Arabic. Its equivalent in Hebrew is שִׁמְעוֹן (Shimon or Shim'on), which also has the same meaning. The Greek transliteration is Σιμων (Simon) or Συμεών (Symeon), and, when Latinized, it becomes Simon or Simeon.
In the Middle East today, the overwhelming majority of people who hold the Semaan surname are Christians who belong to early Christian churches such as the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch, the Melkite Greek Catholic Church of Antioch, the Maronite Catholic Church, the Chaldean Catholic Church, the Assyrian Orthodox Church, and the Coptic Orthodox Church. The ethnic origin of Semaan families varies by geographic location, most prevalent of which is Greek-Syrian, descendants of the Byzantine Greek (Rûm) population of the Syrian tetrapolis (Antioch, Seleucia Pieria, Apamea, and Laodicea).
Beirut (/beɪˈruːt/ bay-ROOT; Arabic: بيروت, romanized: Bayrūt; French: Beyrouth) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. As of 2014[update], Greater...
Semaan Bassil (born 1965) is the Chairman - General Manager of Byblos Bank S.A.L., Lebanon’s third largest listed bank, and Chairman - General Manager...
until she died on stage at the age of fifty. Ferial Karim was born Vera Semaan to a Christian family on April 16, 1938, to Bechara, a postal office clerk...
the vast edifice erected in his honour and known in Arabic as the Qalaat Semaan ("the Fortress of Simeon") can still be seen. They are located about 30 km...
Mount Simeon or Mount Simon (Arabic: جبل سمعان Jabal Simʻān [ˈʒæbæl sɪmˈʕaːn]), also called Mount Laylūn (Arabic: جبل ليلون, is a highland region in Aleppo...
Zurayk, S. 2003. Conifer conservation in Lebanon. Acta Hort. 615: 411–414. Semaan, M. & Haber, R. 2003. In situ conservation on Cedrus libani in Lebanon....
booker, music management agency and media company founded in 2012 by Anthony Semaan, Jessica Naime, Talia Souki and Roy Jamhouri in Beirut, Lebanon. The organization...
Mar Youhannan Semaan Issayi (1914 -یوحنا سمعان عیسائی) ;1999)) was the Metropolitan Archbishop of Tehran of the Chaldean Catholics from March 16, 1971...
Position Name President Hachem Haidar Vice President Raymond Semaan General Secretary Jihad El Chohof Treasurer Mahmoud El Rabaah Technical Director Bassem...
architecture. Many hundreds of those settlements are in Mount Simeon (Jabal Semaan) and Jabal Halaqa regions at the western suburbs of Aleppo, within the range...
is popularly known as either Qalaat Semaan (قلعة سمعان, Qalʿat Simʿān, the 'Fortress of Simeon') or Deir Semaan (دير سمعان, Dayr Simʿān, the 'Monastery...
at the newly established Banque du Liban. The initial founders include Semaan Melkan Bassil, Youssef Melkan Bassil, Victor Fernainé and Fouad Fernainé...
names, such as Antun (Anthony or Antonios), Butros (Peter), Boulos (Paul), Semaan or Shamaoun (Simon or Simeon), Jergyes (George), Elie (Ilyas or Elias),...
Dead Mine Film poster Directed by Steven Sheil Written by Ziad Semaan Steven Sheil Produced by Mike Wiluan Nick North Daniel Davila Catherine Davila Starring...
existed in the 1st century and continue to exist today, notably by certain Semaan families of modern-day Syria and Lebanon. Historians have furnished other...
post by the Slow Factory Foundation, an activist group founded by Céline Semaan Vernon, calling attention to digital blackface led to many critiques and...
01.004. PMID 20643039. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2013-02-19. Semaan, MT; Megerian, CA (April 2011). "Ménière's disease: a challenging and relentless...
Faculty of Medicine HSON, Rafic Hariri School of Nursing MSFEA, Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture OSB, Suliman S. Olayan School of...
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