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Port Elizabeth
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English
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Etymology
In South Africa, named by Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin after his late wife, Elizabeth.
Proper noun
port Elizabeth
en city/and/port p:suf/Eastern Cape c/South Africa officially now named comm/Gqeberha.
en Christina Macfarlane ‘There is nothing worse than hunger,’ says South Africa hero Siya Kolisi of helping townships during lockdown w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/28/sport/siya-kolisi-south-africa-coronavirus-spt-intl-cmd 2020-04-28 Growing up in the township of Zwide, just outside Port Elizabeth, bed for Kolisi was a pile of cushions on the living-room floor and finding enough to eat was a daily struggle. https://web.archive.org/web/20250619234043/https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/28/sport/siya-kolisi-south-africa-coronavirus-spt-intl-cmd
en town on isl/Bequia c/Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
en CDP twp:Suf/Maurice River co/Cumberland County s/New Jersey c/USA.
en port or bay on isl/Gilford Island p/British Columbia c/Canada.
en resettled community in r/Newfoundland p/Newfoundland and Labrador c/Canada.
Translations
port of Eastern Cape
Afrikaans: af Port Elizabeth
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 伊丽莎白港 Mainland China, cmn 伊莉莎白港 Taiwan
French: fr Port Elizabeth m
Russian: ru Порт-Эли́забет m Port-Elízabɛt
Xhosa: xh iBhayi
en eponyms