Marbella

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɑː(ɹ)ˈbeɪ.jə/, /mɑː(ɹ)ˈbeɪ.ə/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Proper noun

Marbella

  1. A city in Andalusia, in southern Spain, on the Mediterranean Sea.
    Synonym: (informal) Marbs

Translations

Spanish

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /maɾˈbeʝa/ [maɾˈβ̞e.ʝa] (most of Spain and Latin America)
  • IPA(key): /maɾˈbeʎa/ [maɾˈβ̞e.ʎa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
  • IPA(key): /maɾˈbeʃa/ [maɾˈβ̞e.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
  • IPA(key): /maɾˈbeʒa/ [maɾˈβ̞e.ʒa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

 

  • Syllabification: Mar‧be‧lla

Proper noun

Marbella ?

  1. Marbella (city)

Derived terms

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish, after the city in Málaga.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /maɾˈbelja/ [mɐɾˈbɛl.jɐ]
  • Rhymes: -elja
  • Syllabification: Mar‧bel‧la

Proper noun

Marbella (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜇ᜔ᜊᜒᜎ᜔ᜌ)

  1. a surname from Spanish

Statistics

  • According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Marbella is the 1,313th most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 7,936 individuals.