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Bilbaoan
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English
Etymology
From en Bilbao an.
Adjective
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en the <<city:pref/Bilbao>>, <<acomm/Basque Country>>, <<c/Spain>>.
en 1984 Dorothy Legarreta The Guernica generation: Basque refugee children of the Spanish Civil War Arana, the son of a major Bilbaoan shipbuilder, set out to revitalize a flagging Basque consciousness. One of his major concerns was the restoration of the Basque language, Euskera, which had fallen to the status of a local patois
1998, José C. Moya, Cousins and strangers: Spanish immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930
Antonio's good grammar and mathematical skills landed him a job in the store of an old Bilbaoan friend of his uncle two blocks from the latter's residence.
Translations
from Bilbao
Asturian: ast bilbaín
Basque: eu bilbotar
Catalan: ca bilbaí
French: fr bilbayen
Galician: gl bilbaíno, gl bilbotarra
Italian: it bilbaino
Spanish: es bilbaíno
Noun
en the <<city:pref/Bilbao>>, <<acomm/Basque Country>>, <<c/Spain>>.
en 1989 Barbara Rosen Arriaga the Forgotten Genius: The Short Life of a Basque Composer During the French occupation, Bilbaoans were likely to have been exposed to some French culture and influence.
en 2007 William A. Douglass; Joseba Zulaika Basque culture: anthropological perspectives Only about 10 percent of Bilbaoans speak Euskara, as compared with 35 to 40 percent of the inhabitants of Donostia. Such a contradiction is at the very core of both the difficulties and the dynamism of the Basque Country.
Translations
someone from Bilbao
Asturian: ast bilbaín m
Basque: eu bilbotar
Catalan: ca bilbaí m
French: fr Bilbayen m, fr Bilbayenne f
Galician: gl bilbaíno m, gl bilbotarra m f
Italian: it bilbaino m, it bilbaina f
Spanish: es bilbaíno m, es bilbaína f