Bethlehem

Etymology
, from, from , from , from. .

Proper noun

 * , believed to be the birthplace of Jesus.
 * 1) A number of other places around the world:
 * 1) A number of other places around the world:

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Bethlehem
 * Aghwan: 𐔱𐔴𐔸𐔾𐔰𐕆𐔴𐕌
 * Albanian: Bethlehem
 * Amharic: ቤተልሔም
 * Arabic: بَيْت لَحْم
 * Gulf Arabic: بَيت لَحَم
 * Aramaic: בֵּית לַחְמָא
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܹܝܬܠܚܸܡ
 * Armenian: Բեթղեհեմ
 * Azerbaijani: Beytləhm
 * Basque: Betleem
 * Belarusian: Віфлеем
 * Bengali: বেথেলহাম, বাইত লাহাম
 * Bislama: Betlehem
 * Breton: Bethlehem
 * Bulgarian: Витлеем
 * Burmese: ဗက်လင်
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 伯利恆, 白冷
 * Hakka: 伯利恆
 * Hokkien: 伯利恆, Bia̍t-lé-hèm, 白冷
 * Mandarin:, 白冷
 * Cornish: Bethalem
 * Czech:
 * Danish: Betlehem
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: Bet-Leĥem
 * Estonian: Petlemm
 * Farefare: Bɛtelɛm, Bɛtelehɛm
 * Faroese: Betlehem
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ბეით-ლაჰმი, ბეთლემი
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌱𐌴𐌸𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: Βηθλεέμ
 * Haitian Creole: Bètleyèm
 * Hebrew: בֵּית לֶחֶם
 * Hindi: बेथलहम, बैतलहम
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: Betlehem
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: Betlehem
 * Irish: Beithil
 * Old Irish: Bethel, Bethelém
 * Italian: Betlemme
 * Japanese: ベツレヘム, ワィフレエム
 * Karachay-Balkar: Вифлеем
 * Kazakh: Бетлехем
 * Khmer: បេថ្លេហិម
 * Korean: 베들레헴
 * Krymchak: Бетлехем
 * Latin: Bēthlehēmum
 * Latvian: Bētleme
 * Lithuanian: Betliejus
 * Luxembourgish: Betlehem
 * Macedonian: Витлеем
 * Malay: Baitul Laham, Baitullaham, Betlehem
 * Maltese: Betlem
 * Manchu: ᠪᡝᡨᠯᡳᠶᡝᠮ, ᠪᡝᡨᠯᡳᠶᡝᠮ ᡥᠣᡨᠣᠨ
 * Maore Comorian: Ɓaitilham
 * Marathi: बेथलेहेम
 * Nogai: Бетлехем
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: Bethelèm
 * Ossetian: Вифлеем
 * Ottoman Turkish: بیت اللحم
 * Persian: بیت لحم
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: Betleem, Viflaim
 * Russian:, , Бейт-Лахм
 * Scottish Gaelic: Bethlehem
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Витлехем
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: Betlehem
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: Bethlehemu
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Belen, Bethlehem
 * Tamil: பெத்லகேம்
 * Thai: เบธเลเฮม
 * Turkish: Beytüllahim, Betlehem
 * Ukrainian: Віфлеєм
 * Urdu: بَیْت اَلْلَحَم, بیت لحم
 * Uyghur: بېتلېخېم
 * Vietnamese: Belem
 * Welsh: Bethlehem
 * West Frisian: Betlehem
 * White Hmong: Npelehees
 * Yiddish: בית לחם

Noun

 * 1)  A lunatic asylum.
 * 2)  In the Ethiopic church, a small building attached to a church edifice, in which the bread for the Eucharist is made.

Etymology
From, , from , from.

The hamlet is first attested as Bethlehem in 1502 and is named after a former monastery, which was named in turn after the city in Palestine.