Zamboanga

English
Zamboanga City, as illustrated in the Velarde Map (1734)

Etymology

From Spanish Zamboanga, from Central Sama Samboangan (“mooring place”) from samboang (“mooring pole”) +‎ -an (“place marker suffix”), as attested in the Velarde Map (1734). A popular folk etymology may also attribute it to either Indonesian jambangan (“flower garden”) or Malay jambangan (“flower garden”) or Tausug jambangan (“flower garden”) from jambang (“flower pot”) +‎ -an (“place marker suffix”), but this name has never been attested in any historical records prior to the 1960s with the place being attested usually instead as "Samboangan".[1]

Proper noun

Zamboanga

  1. Zamboanga City (a city in the Philippines)
  2. either of the three provinces of the Zamboanga Peninsula
  3. Zamboanga peninsula (a peninsula in the Philippines)
  4. Province of Zamboanga (a former province of the Philippines)
  5. Republic of Zamboanga

References
  1. Enriquez, A.R. (September 5, 2011), “Jambangan: the "Garden of Flowers" never was!”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎, retrieved 13 September 2016

Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish Zamboanga, from Central Sama Samboangan (“mooring place”) from samboang (“mooring pole”) +‎ -an (“place marker suffix”), as attested in the Velarde Map (1734). A popular folk etymology may also attribute it to either Indonesian jambangan (“flower garden”) or Malay jambangan (“flower garden”) or Tausug jambangan (“flower garden”) from jambang (“flower pot”) +‎ -an (“place marker suffix”), but this name has never been attested in any historical records prior to the 1960s with the place being attested usually instead as "Samboangan".[1]

Proper noun

Zamboanga

  1. Zamboanga City (a city in the Philippines)
  2. either of the three provinces of the Zamboanga Peninsula
  3. Zamboanga peninsula (a peninsula in the Philippines)
  4. Province of Zamboanga (a former province of the Philippines)
  5. Republic of Zamboanga

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Zamboanga.

References
  1. Enriquez, A.R. (September 5, 2011), “Jambangan: the "Garden of Flowers" never was!”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎, retrieved 13 September 2016

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Zamboanga, from Central Sama Samboangan (“mooring place”) from samboang (“mooring pole”) +‎ -an (“place marker suffix”), as attested in the Velarde Map (1734). A popular folk etymology may also attribute it to either Indonesian jambangan (“flower garden”) or Malay jambangan (“flower garden”) or Tausug jambangan (“flower garden”) from jambang (“flower pot”) +‎ -an (“place marker suffix”), but this name has never been attested in any historical records prior to the 1960s with the place being attested usually instead as "Samboangan".[1]

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: Zam‧bo‧an‧ga
  • IPA(key): /sambuˈaŋɡa/, [sɐmˈbwaŋ.ɡɐ]

Proper noun

Zamboanga (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜋ᜔ᜊᜓᜀᜅ᜔ᜄ)

  1. Zamboanga City (a city in the Philippines)
  2. either of the three provinces of the Zamboanga Peninsula
  3. Zamboanga peninsula (a peninsula in the Philippines)
  4. Province of Zamboanga (a former province of the Philippines)
  5. Republic of Zamboanga

Derived terms

References
  1. Enriquez, A.R. (September 5, 2011), “Jambangan: the "Garden of Flowers" never was!”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎, retrieved 13 September 2016
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