Zamboanga.
Zamboanga City (a city in Zamboanga Peninsula, Mindanao, Philippines)
Meaning & usage
Zamboanga City (a city in Zamboanga Peninsula, Mindanao, Philippines)
Zamboanga Peninsula (an administrative region of Mindanao, Philippines)
Zamboanga peninsula (a peninsula in Mindanao, Philippines)
Province of Zamboanga (a former province of Mindanao, Philippines)
Republic of Zamboanga
Where this word comes from
Attested in the Velarde map (1734). From Central Sama Samboangan (“mooring place”), from sambuwang (“large mooring post”) + -an (locative suffix). The root is cognate with Malay sembuang (“large mooring post”). Compare Hokkien 三寶顏 /三宝颜 (Sam-pó-gân, “Zamboanga”).
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