Zamboanga

From Spanish Zamboanga, from Central Sama Samboangan (“mooring place”) from samboang (“mooring pole” - cognate with Malay sembuang^[1]) + place marker suffix -an, as attested in the Velarde Map (1734). A popular folk etymology may also attribute it to either 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".^[2]

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

• Audio (Philippines):

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Zamboanga

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. (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.

• Zamboanga City

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]

Zamboanga

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. (historical) Republic of Zamboanga

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Zamboanga.

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

Zamboanga f

1. Zamboanga

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]

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /zamboˈaŋɡa/ [zɐm.boˈaŋ.ɡɐ]
  • IPA^(key): (more-native sounding) /samboˈaŋɡa/ [sɐm.boˈaŋ.ɡɐ]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aŋɡa
• Syllabification: Zam‧bo‧an‧ga

Zamboanga (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜋ᜔ᜊᜓᜏᜅ᜔ᜄ)

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. (historical) Republic of Zamboanga