English Explanatory Dictionary

Zamboanga

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Zamboanga City (a city in Zamboanga Peninsula, Mindanao, Philippines)
  2. Zamboanga Peninsula (an administrative region of Mindanao, Philippines).
  3. Zamboanga peninsula (a peninsula in Mindanao, Philippines).
  4. Province of Zamboanga (a former province of Mindanao, Philippines)
  5. The Republic of Zamboanga, a short-lived revolutionary republic, founded after the collapse of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines, existing between May and November 1899.

Pronunciation

/zɐmbˈwaŋ.ɡɐ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Mlgc1998-Zamboanga.wav

Word forms

Zamboanga

Etymology

From Spanish Zamboanga, from Central Sama Samboangan (“mooring place”), from sambuwang (“large mooring post”) + -an (locative suffix). The root is cognate with Malay sembuang (“large mooring post”). The original etymon is attested in the Velarde map (1734). A popular folk etymology may also attribute it to Malay jambangan (“flower garden”), from jambang (“flower pot”) + -an (locative suffix), but this name has never been attested in any historical records prior to the 1960s with the place being historically attested usually instead as "Samboangan".

Derived words

Zamboanga City

Translations

Cebuano: Zamboanga Chavacano: Zamboanga Chavacano: Ciudad de Zamboanga Chinese: 三寶顏 /三宝颜 Chinese Mandarin: 三寶顏 /三宝颜 French: Zamboanga German: Zamboanga Greek: Ζαμποάνγκα Japanese: サンボアンガ Korean: 잠보앙가 Macedonian: Самбоанга Russian: Замбоанга Spanish: Zamboanga Spanish: Ciudad de Zamboanga Tagalog: Zamboanga Tausug: Sambuangan
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