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Iberian
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English
Etymology
en :af Iberia -an + 1
Pronunciation
en /ˌaɪˈbɪə.ɹi.ən/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Iberian.wav Southern England
en ɪəɹiən 4
Adjective
Native to Iberia.
Of or pertaining to Iberia.
en 2004 David Mitchell Cloud Atlas Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery 119 978-0-676-97494-2 The store clerk scribbles himself a to-do note and lifts the stylus back to the start of “¿Por qué lloras blanca niña?,” lowers the needle onto shimmering black vinyl, and dreams of Jewish shepherd boys plucking their lyres on starlit Iberian hillsides.
Derived terms
en Iberianness Iberian wolf Iberian desman Iberian ibex Iberian America Iberian magpie Iberian lynx Iberian ribbed newt
Translations
Native to Iberia
Afrikaans: af Iberies
Catalan: ca ibèric
Dutch: nl Iberisch
Esperanto: eo iberia
French: fr ibérique, fr ibère
Galician: gl ibérico
German: de iberisch
Irish: ga Ibéarach
Italian: it iberico
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb iberisk
Nynorsk: nn iberisk
Old Galician-Portuguese: roa-opt espanhol m
Polish: pl iberyjski
Portuguese: pt ibérico
Spanish: es ibérico, es ibero
Swedish: sv iberisk
Yiddish: yi איבעריש
Noun
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en countable A native of modern-day Iberia the European peninsula: a person native to Spain, Portugal, Andorra, or Gibraltar,.
en historical chiefly in the plural An ancient people settled in the eastern and southern coasts of the Iberian Peninsula, at least from the 6th century BCE.
en countable A Georgian person from the country in Eurasia.
Derived terms
en Celtiberian
Translations
Native of Iberia
Afrikaans: af Iberiër
Catalan: ca iber m
Dutch: nl Iberiër m
French: fr ibère m f
Galician: gl ibérico m, gl ibero m
German: de Iberer m, de Ibererin f
Irish: ga Ibéarach m, ga Ibéaraigh m-p
Italian: it iberico m
Portuguese: pt ibérico m, pt ibero m
Spanish: es ibero m, es íbero m
Proper noun
+ language
An extinct language isolate that was spoken in the Iberian peninsula.
en The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon 2025 Cid Swanenvleugel 518 Whereas the presence of Etruscan [in southern France] was likely the result of Etruscan traders settling in the area relatively recently, Iberian appears to have been the prevalent language, at least in the southwesternmost parts of what is now the French Mediterranean coast.
Translations
an extinct language
Catalan: ca ibèric m
Dutch: nl Iberisch n
Galician: gl ibero, gl ibérico
German: de Iberisch n
Spanish: es ibérico m, es ibero m, es íbero m
See also
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Further reading
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