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Gibraltar
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Gíbraltar Gibraltár
English
Etymology 1
thumb|Gibraltar (sense 1).
From en es Gibraltar, from en ar جَبَل طَارِق Mount Tariq, named after Tariq ibn Ziyad, who led the Umayyad conquest of Hispania, starting in 711. Replaced earlier la Mons Calpe Mount Calpe for the land, and la Columnae Herculis, from grc Ἡράκλειαι στῆλαι Pillars of Hercules, for the strait.
en ar ج ب ل ط ر ق
The barangay in Baguio, Philippines is named by a German national "Jonathan Speth" after the Rock of Gibraltar in Europe. He lived and died in the barangay.50
Pronunciation
en /d͡ʒɪˈbɹɔːltə(ɹ)/ /d͡ʒɪˈbɹɒltə(ɹ)/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Gibraltar.wav Southern England /d͡ʒɪˈbɹɒltə/
jĭ-brôl′tərGibraltar 680 1 Gibraltar (jĭbrôl′tu̇r),Gi·bral·tar 277 1 Gi·bral·tar (jĭ-brôl′tər),
en ɔːltə(ɹ) ɒltə(ɹ) 3
Proper noun
en Q1410en peninsula/city/and/overseas territory c/United Kingdom at the southern end of r/Iberia.
en 14 August 2013 Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history Simon Jenkins w:The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/14/gibraltar-falklands-deny-logic-history Nothing beats a gunboat. HMS Illustrious glided out of Portsmouth on Monday, past HMS Victory and cheering crowds of patriots. Within a week it will be off Gibraltar, a mere cannon shot from Cape Trafalgar. The Spaniards offered Gibraltar fully devolved status, like the Basques and Catalans, respecting language, culture and a degree of fiscal autonomy. https://web.archive.org/web/20210422111850/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/14/gibraltar-falklands-deny-logic-history
en Q36124en strait connecting the Mediterranean to the Atlantic between Gibraltar and Morocco Strait of Gibraltar + Strait of +.
en place cc/England:
en hamlet par/Kempston Rural bor/Bedford co/Bedfordshire OS grid ref TL0046. List of United Kingdom locations: Ge-Gl#Gi
en hamlet mostly in par/Dinton with Ford and Upton co/Buckinghamshire OS grid ref SP7510.
en hamlet par/Hawkinge dist/Folkestone and Hythe co/Kent OS grid ref TR2039.
en locality par/Bletchingdon dist/Cherwell co/Oxfordshire OS grid ref SP4818.
en place c/USA:
en city co/Wayne County s/Michigan.
en ghost town co/Union County s/North Carolina.
en CDP twp:Suf/Robeson co/Berks County s/Pennsylvania.
en ucomm co/Skagit County s/Washington.
en town co/Door County s/Wisconsin.
en rural community in the rmun/Halifax p/Nova Scotia c/Canada.
en town s:Suf/Zulia c/Venezuela.
en barangay city/Baguio p/Benguet c/Philippines.
Synonyms
land territory en Mons Calpe (former name)
strait en Strait of Gibraltar, en Straits of Gibraltar, en STROG
Derived terms
en Gibraltar fever Gibraltarian Gibraltar Range Gibraltar rock Gibraltar Rock Rock of Gibraltar Strait of Gibraltar
Translations
British overseas territory
Albanian: sq Gjibraltar m, sq Gjibraltari m definite
Amharic: am ጅብራልታር
Arabic: ar جَبَل طَارِق m
Hijazi Arabic: acw جَبَل طارِق m f jabal ṭārig
Armenian: hy Ջիբրալթար
Aromanian: rup Ghibraltar m
Asturian: ast Xibraltar m
Azerbaijani: az Cəbəllüttariq
Basque: eu Gibraltar
Belarusian: be Гібралта́р m
Bengali: bn জিব্রাল্টার
Breton: br Jibraltar
Bulgarian: bg Гибралта́р m
Burmese: my ဂျီဘရော်လ်တာ
Catalan: ca Gibraltar m
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 直布羅陀
Mandarin: cmn 直布羅陀
Cornish: kw Jibraltar
Czech: cs Gibraltar m
Danish: da Gibraltar n
Dutch: nl Gibraltar n
Esperanto: eo Ĝibraltaro
Estonian: et Gibraltar
Faroese: fo Gibraltar n
Finnish: fi Gibraltar
French: fr Gibraltar m
Galician: gl Xibraltar m
Georgian: ka გიბრალტარი
German: de Gibraltar n
Greek: el Γιβραλτάρ
Ancient Greek: grc Ἡράκλειαι στῆλαι f-p, grc Κάλπη f
Hebrew: he גיברלטר m gibraltar
Hindi: hi जिब्राल्टर m
Hungarian: hu Gibraltár
Icelandic: is Gíbraltar n
Ido: io Gibraltar
Indonesian: id Gibraltar
Interlingua: ia Gibraltar
Italian: it Gibilterra f
Japanese: ja ジブラルタル Jiburarutaru
Kapampangan: pam Gibraltar
Kazakh: kk Жебелі-Тарық, kk Гибралтар
Khmer: km ស៊ីប្រាល់តា
Korean: ko ^지브롤터, ko ^지브랄타르 North Korea
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kmr Gibraltar
Kyrgyz: ky Гибралтар
Latin: la Calpe
Latvian: lv Gibraltārs m
Lithuanian: lt Gibraltaras m
Low German: nds Gibraltar
Luxembourgish: lb Gibraltar
Macedonian: mk Гибралтар m
Malay: ms Gibraltar
Maltese: mt Ġibiltà
Māori: mi Kamaka
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Гибралтар
Norman: nrf Dgibrâltar m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Gibraltar n
Nynorsk: nn Gibraltar n
Occitan: oc Gibartar m
Pashto: ps جبل الطارق m jabal at-tāriq
Persian: fa جَبلالطّارِق jabal-et-târeq, fa جَبَلطارِق jabal-târeq
Piedmontese: pms Gibiltëra
Polish: pl Gibraltar m
Portuguese: pt Gibraltar m
Romanian: ro Gibraltar
Russian: ru Гибралта́р m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Гѝбралта̄р m
Latin: sh Gìbraltār m
Sicilian: scn Gibbilterra f, scn Gibrartari m
Sinhalese: si ජිබ්රෝල්ටාව
Slovak: sk Gibraltár m
Slovene: sl Gibraltar m
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: hsb Gibraltar m
Spanish: es Gibraltar m
Swahili: sw Gibraltar
Swedish: sv Gibraltar n
Tagalog: tl Hibraltar
Tajik: tg Гибралтар, tg Ҷабалутториқ
Tamil: ta ஜிப்ரால்ட்டர்
Tatar: tt Гибралтар
Thai: th ยิบรอลตาร์
Turkish: tr Cebelitarık
Turkmen: tk Gibraltar
Ukrainian: uk Ґібралта́р m, uk Гібралта́р m
Urdu: ur جبرالٹر jibrālṭar, ur جَبَلالطّارِق jabal-at-tāriq
Uzbek: uz Gibraltar
Venetan: vec Gibiltera f
Walloon: wa Djibraltar
Strait of Gibraltar
See also
heading CAR Baguio
References
Further reading
Gibraltar (disambiguation)
Etymology 2
"Gibraltar" is the name of a line of tumblers made by glassware company Libbey. The drink was named in 2005, by Steve Ford at Blue Bottle Coffee in San Francisco, after the glass in which its version was served.https://books.google.com/books?id=pLNcuq70KskC&pg=PA124 124–5 The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee: Growing, Roasting, and Drinking, with Recipes James Freeman Caitlin Freeman Tara Duggan Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed 2012 9781607741190 The Story Behind The Gibraltar / Cortado rawpluscoffee
Alternative forms
en gibraltar
Noun
en mainly North America; en originally A cortado served in a small glass; en by extension any cortado
2013 October 30, "The Mighty Vancouver Cafe Crawl" Little Ninja Chef [photo caption]:
Two Gibraltars (decaf) at Kafka
en February 26 2015 Greta Kaul https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Startup-that-lets-chefs-review-restaurants-lands-6101738.php Startup that lets chefs review restaurants lands $4 million SFGate At a recent meeting at Mint Plaza’s Blue Bottle Coffee, Maggiotto ordered a Gibraltar, a small, milky espresso drink. https://web.archive.org/web/20231003230548/https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Startup-that-lets-chefs-review-restaurants-lands-6101738.php 3 October 2023
en June 29 2016 Gretchen Fox https://www.forbes.com/sites/gretchenfox/2016/06/29/how-to-create-a-loyal-customer-in-under-five-minutes/ How To Create A Loyal Customer In Under Five Minutes Forbes I paid for my beans and sipped my perfectly-made Gibraltar as I walked down the street thinking about how I would now always order from his pizza company. https://web.archive.org/web/20241209070754/https://www.forbes.com/sites/gretchenfox/2016/06/29/how-to-create-a-loyal-customer-in-under-five-minutes/ 9 December 2024
References
Catalan
Etymology
from ca ar جَبَل طَارِق Mount Tariq, probably via es Gibraltar.
Pronunciation
[a(r)]
ca LL-Q7026 (cat)-Marvives-Gibraltar.wav Barcelona
Proper noun
m
ca Gibraltar Q1410,Q36124
Derived terms
ca estret de Gibraltar
ca gibraltareny
ca penyal de Gibraltar
Cebuano
Proper noun
ceb proper noun
ceb
ceb Gibraltar Q1410,Q36124
Czech
Pronunciation
Džibraltar
Proper noun
m-in gibraltarský
cs Gibraltar Q1410,Q36124
Declension
m.sg
Danish
Proper noun
da proper noun
da Gibraltar Q1410,Q36124
Dutch
nl:
Pronunciation
nl /ɣɪˈbrɑltɑr/
nl Nl-Gibraltar.ogg
Proper noun
n
nl Gibraltar Q1410,Q36124
French
fr:
Pronunciation
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-GrandCelinien-Gibraltar.wav <<France>> (<<Paris>>)
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick-Gibraltar.wav <<France>> (<<Somain>>)
Proper noun
m
fr Gibraltar Q1410,Q36124
Derived terms
fr détroit de Gibraltar
fr gibraltarien
fr Gibraltarien
Galician
Proper noun
m
Xibraltar
German
Pronunciation
de /ɡiˈbral.tar/ [ɡiˈbʁal.taʁ] [ɡɪ-] [-taɐ̯] /-tər/ [-tɐ]
de /ɡi.bralˈtaːr/ [-ˈtaː(ɐ̯)] rare
de De-Gibraltar.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
de De-Gibraltar2.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
toponym
de Gibraltar Q1410,Q36124
Norwegian Bokmål
no:
Proper noun
nb proper noun
nb Gibraltar Q1410,Q36124
Derived terms
nb Gibraltarstredet
Norwegian Nynorsk
nn:
Proper noun
nn proper noun
nn Gibraltar Q1410,Q36124
Derived terms
nn Gibraltarsundet
Polish
pl:
thumb|Gibraltar
Etymology
pl :bor en:Gibraltar + 1
Pronunciation
LL-Q809 (pol)-Poemat-Gibraltar.wav
Proper noun
m-in gibraltarski
pl Gibraltar Q1410,Q36124
Declension
s
Derived terms
pl nouns Gibraltarczyk Gibraltarka
Further reading
pl exonyms
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Gibraltarh
Proper noun
m
pt Gibraltar Q1410,Q36124
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
Gìbraltār
sh Gi bral tar
Proper noun
Gìbraltār m-in
sh Gibraltar Q1410,Q36124
Declension
Gibraltar Gibraltara Gibraltaru Gibraltar Gibraltare Gibraltaru Gibraltarom
Slovene
sl:
Pronunciation
Gíbraltar
Proper noun
Gíbraltar m-in
sl Gibraltar Q1410
Declension
Gíbraltar Gíbraltarj sg
Related terms
sl gíbraltarski
References
Spanish
Pronunciation
+<audio:LL-Q1321 (spa)-Rodelar-Gibraltar.wav<a:Spain>> raw:/xibɾaɾˈtaɾ/ [hi.β̞ɾat̪ˈt̪a(ɾ), hi.β̞ɾaɾˈt̪a(ɾ)]<a:Andalusia> +
Proper noun
m
es Gibraltar Q1410,Q36124
Derived terms
es estrecho de Gibraltar gibraltareño
Swedish
Proper noun
n
sv Gibraltar Q1410,Q36124
Turkmen
Гибралтар Gibraltar جبل طارق
Proper noun
tk proper noun
tk Gibraltar Q1410,Q36124