Lisbon

English <dab!> Etymology en :bor fr:Lisbonne 1 As the capital of Portugal, from en fr Lisbonne, from en ar لِشْبُونَة, from en la Olisīpō, the origin of which is uncertain.Jack Malcolm, Lisbon: City of the Sea: A History (2007) Older spellings include la Ulixbona and la Ulixbuna (in the Visigothic era); grc Ὀλισσιπών or grc Ὀλισσιπόνα (by Greek writers), la Olisippo (by Pliny the Elder), and la Ulyssippo (by Pomponius Mela of Hispania), the last of which relates to the first-century Roman folk etymology that it was founded by and named after Ulysses; another common folk etymology is the phn 𐤏𐤋𐤉𐤑 𐤏𐤁𐤀 ʿaliṣ-ʿuboʾ safe harbour, but there is not much evidence for such words. Another possibility, based on hydronymy of the area, derives the name from en qsb-ibe's appellation for the Tagus, und Lisso or und Lucio. In other senses, with reference to the Portuguese city. Pronunciation en /ˈlɪzbən/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Lisbon.wav Southern England en ɪzbən 2 Proper noun en Q597en port city on the r/Iberian Peninsula at the mouth of the Tagus River on the Atlantic Ocean ; capital city c/Portugal. en Everybody Comes to Rick’s: “Casablanca” on the Big Screen David Denby March 19, 2012 https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/everybody-comes-to-ricks-casablanca-on-the-big-screen w:The New Yorker We see documentary footage (the trudging homeless) and an animated map—an inky line movies from Paris to Marseilles, from there to Oran, and finally to Casablanca, where the lucky ones escape via Lisbon and the rest “wait…and wait…and wait.” https://web.archive.org/web/20260910150409/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/everybody-comes-to-ricks-casablanca-on-the-big-screen 10 September 2026 en district c/Portugal around the capital. en metonym The Portuguese government. en number of places c/USA: en town co/New London County s/Connecticut. TopoZone: Town of Lisbon, Connecticut en CDP co/Lake County s/Florida. en village/and/twp co/Kendall County s/Illinois. en ucomm twp:Suf/Allen co/Noble County s/Indiana. en city co/Linn County s/Iowa. en village co/Claiborne Parish s/Louisiana. en town/and/CDP therein, in co/Androscoggin County s/Maine. en CDP co/Howard County s/Maryland. en twp co/Yellow Medicine County s/Minnesota. en ucomm co/Howard County s/Missouri. en town/and/CDP therein, in co/Grafton County s/New Hampshire. TopoZone: Lisbon, New Hampshire en town/and/hamlet therein, in co/St. Lawrence County s/New York, named after Lisburn, Northern Ireland. TopoZone, Lisbon, New York en twp co/Sampson County s/North Carolina. en city/county seat co/Ransom County s/North Dakota. en village/county seat co/Columbiana County s/Ohio. en ucomm twp:Suf/Harmony co/Clark County s/Ohio. en twp co/Davison County s/South Dakota. en town co/Juneau County s/Wisconsin. en village co/Waukesha County s/Wisconsin. Synonyms capital of Portugal en Olisipo historical, en Lisboa village in Ohio, USA en New Lisbon historical Derived terms en Lisboner Lisbon Falls Lisbonite New Lisbon Translations capital city of Portugal Afrikaans: af Lissabon Albanian: sq Lisbona f, sq Lisbonë f indefinite Amharic: am ሊዝቦን Arabic: ar لِشْبُونَة f, ar أُشْبُونَة f archaic Hijazi Arabic: acw لِشْبونَة lišbōna Aragonese: an Lisbona f Armenian: hy Լիսաբոն Asturian: ast Lisboa f Azerbaijani: az Lissabon Basque: eu Lisboa Belarusian: be Лісабо́н m Bengali: bn লিসবন Bulgarian: bg Лисабо́н m Burmese: my လစ်စဘွန်းမြို့ Catalan: ca Lisboa f Chinese: Cantonese: yue 里斯本 lei5 si1 bun2, yue 葡京 pou4 ging1 Mandarin: cmn 里斯本 Lǐsīběn, cmn 葡京 Pújīng Czech: cs Lisabon m Danish: da Lissabon n Dutch: nl Lissabon n Esperanto: eo Lisbono Finnish: fi Lissabon French: fr Lisbonne f Middle French: frm Lissebonne Frisian: North Frisian: frr Lisabon West Frisian: fy Lissabon n Friulian: fur Lisbone Galician: gl Lisboa f Georgian: ka ლისაბონი German: de Lissabon n Greek: el Λισσαβώνα f Ancient Greek: grc Ὀλισσιπών Hawaiian: haw Likepona Hebrew: he לִיסְבּוֹן f lísbon Hindi: hi लिस्बन m Hungarian: hu Lisszabon Icelandic: is Lissabon f Irish: ga Liospóin f Italian: it Lisbona f Japanese: ja リスボン Risubon Kazakh: kk Лиссабон Khmer: km លីសបោន Korean: ko ^리스본 Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: kmr Lîzbon Kyrgyz: ky Лиссабон Lao: lo ລີຊະບົນ Latin: la Olisīpō Latvian: lv Lisabona f Ligurian: lij Lisbonn-a Lithuanian: lt Lisabona f Low German: German Low German: nds-de Lissabon n Macedonian: mk Лисабон m Maltese: mt Liżbona Mirandese: mwl Lisboua Mongolian: Cyrillic: mn Лиссабон Norwegian: Bokmål: nb Lisboa, nb Lissabon Occitan: oc Lisbona f Old Galician-Portuguese: roa-opt Lixbõa Pashto: ps لزبن m Lezbón, ps لېزبن m Lezbon Persian: fa لیسبون Lisbon Polish: pl Lizbona f Portuguese: pt Lisboa f Romanian: ro Lisabona Romansh: rm Lisbona f Russian: ru Лиссабо́н m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Лисабон m Latin: sh Lisabon m Slovak: sk Lisabon m Slovene: sl Lizbóna f Spanish: es Lisboa f Swedish: sv Lissabon n Tajik: tg Лиссабон Tamil: ta லிஸ்பன் Tatar: tt Лиссабон Thai: th ลิสบอน Tibetan: bo ལི་སི་བཱོན Turkish: tr Lizbon Ottoman Turkish: ota ⁧لیزبون⁩ Lizbon Turkmen: tk Lissabon Ukrainian: uk Лісабо́н m Urdu: ur لسبن m lisban Uyghur: ug لىسبون Uzbek: uz Lissabon Venetan: vec Lisbona f Vietnamese: vi Li-xboa Yiddish: yi ליסבאָן n, yi ליסאַבאָן n Noun ? A sweet, light-coloured wine from Portugal. 1808–10, William Hickey (memoirist) William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 165: We had plenty of port wine and Lisbon, which, with uninterrupted good humour, made the hours glide rapidly away. See also en Lisboa References Anagrams en bilnos Bolins bolins en exonyms en District capitals Welsh cy: Pronunciation cy /ˈlɪsbən/ cy-N cy /ˈlɪzbən/ cy-S Proper noun f cy capital city c/Portugal Lisbon