Babel
Appearance
Babel is a name used in the Hebrew Bible for the city of Babylon.
Babel may also refer to:
Tower of Babel
- Tower of Babel, Biblical account
- Tower of Babel (disambiguation), various artistic and written works deriving from the Biblical account
Geography
- Babylon, Mesopotamia itself
- Babel, Carmarthenshire, a village in Wales
- Babel, abbreviation of Bangka Belitung, a province in Indonesia
- Babel, Khuzestan, a village in Iran
- The Babil Governorate in Iraq (named after Babylon) is sometimes transliterated as "Babel"
- Babel Island, Tasmania, Australia
- Babel River, Alaska, United States
- Mount Babel (Alberta), Canada
- Mount Babel (Quebec), Canada
People
- Babel (surname)
- Babels, a volunteer translators network
Books
- Babel, novel by John Cournos 1922
- Babel, novel by Alan Burns (author) 1969
- Babel (book), by Patti Smith
- Babel, book by Zygmunt Bauman and Ezio Mauro 2016
- Babel (newspaper), an Iraqi newspaper
- Babel (magazine), a magazine about linguistics
- Babel, a journal produced by the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations
- Babel-17, a science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany in which the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is strongly influential
- The Library of Babel, a short story by Jorge Luis Borges
Film, television and entertainment
- Babel (film), a 2006 film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Babel (TV series), a 2019 South Korean television series
Star Trek
- "Babel" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Babel (planet), a neutrally aligned planet in the fictional Star Trek universe
- "Babel One", an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
- "Journey To Babel", an episode of Star Trek' (The Original Series)
Technology and science
- 5808 Babel', a minor planet
- Babel, a Turbo CD role-playing game released by Nippon Telenet
- Babel, an open source collection of utilities (toolset) for internationalizing and localizing Python applications
- Babel (transcompiler), a JavaScript transcompiler
- Babel (protocol), a robust and efficient routing protocol for wired, wireless, and hybrid IP mesh networks
- Babel Fish (website), an automated bilingual dictionary lookup service for words and phrases
- Babel Middleware, open-source middleware for scientific computing
- GPSBabel, GPS file format conversion software
- OpenBabel, open-source chemical modeling software
Music
- Babel, cantata for reciter, male chorus & orchestra by Igor Stravinsky, 1944
- Babel Label, a British record label
- Babel Fish (band), a Norwegian band who got their name from the Douglas Adams books
Albums
- Babel (D*Note album), 1993
- Babel (soundtrack), Gustavo Santaolalla, the soundtrack album from the 2006 film
- Babel (Mumford & Sons album), a 2012 album by Mumford & Sons, or its title track (see below)
- Babel, album by German electronic musician Klaus Schulze, 1987
- Babel, Banda Pau Brasil 1997
- Babel, album by Hughes de Courson 2008
- Babel, album by Gabriel Yacoub 1997
- Babel, album by Philip Catherine 1980
Songs
- "Babel" (song), the title track of the aforementioned album by Mumford & Sons
- "Babel", a song from the album Heligoland by Massive Attack
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Babel
- All pages with titles containing Babel
- Babble (disambiguation)
- Bab (disambiguation)
- Babbel, an online language learning platform
- Babol, a city in Iran
- Bable, an alternative name of the Asturian language of Spain