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".

Pronunciation

• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /zɐmbˈwaŋ.ɡɐ/

Proper noun

Zamboanga

1. Zamboanga City (a city in Zamboanga Peninsula, Mindanao, Philippines)
2. Any of the three provinces of the Zamboanga Peninsula
3. Zamboanga peninsula (a peninsula in Mindanao, Philippines)
4. Province of Zamboanga (a former province of Mindanao, Philippines)
5. (historical) 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.

Translations

city in the Philippines

• Cebuano: Zamboanga
• Chavacano: Zamboanga, Ciudad de Zamboanga
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三寶顏／三宝颜 (zh) (Sānbǎoyán)

• French: Zamboanga (fr)
• German: Zamboanga
• Greek: Ζαμποάνγκα (Zampoángka)
• Japanese: サンボアンガ
• Korean: 잠보앙가 (jamboangga)
• Macedonian: Самбоанга f (Samboanga)
• Russian: Замбоанга (Zamboanga)
• Spanish: Zamboanga, Ciudad de Zamboanga
• Tagalog: Zamboanga

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".

Proper noun

Zamboanga

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

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Zamboanga.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θamboˈanɡa/ [θãm.boˈãŋ.ɡa]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /samboˈanɡa/ [sãm.boˈãŋ.ɡa]
• Rhymes: -anɡa
• Syllabification: Zam‧bo‧an‧ga

Proper noun

Zamboanga f

1. Zamboanga

Derived terms

• chavacano de Zamboanga
• zamboangueño

 

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".

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /zamboˈaŋɡa/ [zɐm.boˈaŋ.ɡɐ]
  • IPA^(key): (more native-sounding) /samboˈaŋɡa/ [sɐm.boˈaŋ.ɡɐ]
• Rhymes: -aŋɡa
• Syllabification: Zam‧bo‧an‧ga

Proper noun

Zamboanga (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜋ᜔ᜊᜓᜏᜅ᜔ᜄ)

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

Related terms

• Zamboanga del Norte
• Zamboanga del Sur
• Zamboanga Sibugay