Lixbõa
Old Galician-Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic لِشْبُونَة (lišbūna),[1] from Latin Olisīpō, from Phoenician or Tartessian.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /liʃ.ˈbõ.a/
Proper noun
Lixbõa
- a city in central Portugal
- a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 277 (facsimile):
- Eles de Liſbõa eran. ⁊ atal pꝛeito poſerõ. ontreſſi q̃ coꝛrer foſſẽo algarue ſi feꝣeron.
- They were from Lisbon. And agreed among themselves to go to Algarve and they did that.
- Eles de Liſbõa eran. ⁊ atal pꝛeito poſerõ. ontreſſi q̃ coꝛrer foſſẽo algarue ſi feꝣeron.
Descendants
References
- ^ 'Lisboa muçulmana = Lixbûnâ' in Ciberdúvidas