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HANNIBAL

Gender: Masculine

Usage: History

Pronounced: HAN-i-bəl (English)   [key]

Means "grace of Ba'al" from Phoenician hann "grace" combined with the name of the god BA'AL. Hannibal was the Carthaginian general who threatened Rome during the Second Punic War in the 3rd century BC.
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