Gibraltar

See also Gibraltár

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From the Arabic جبل طارق (Jabal Ţāriq), meaning Mountain of Tariq, who led the Umayyad conquest of Hispania, starting in 711. Replaced earlier Latin Mons Calpe (“Mount Calpe”) for the land, and Ancient Greek Ηράκλειες Στήλε (“Pillars of Hercules”) (Latin Columnae Herculis) for the strait.

Proper noun

Gibraltar

1. An overseas territory of the United Kingdom at the southern end of Iberia.
2. A strait connecting the Mediterranean to the Atlantic between Gibraltar and Morocco.

Derived terms

• Gibraltarian

Translations

British overseas territory

• Albanian: Gjibraltari (sq)
• Arabic: جبل طارق (ar) (jábal Taariq) m
• Armenian: Ջիբրալթար (hy) (Jibralt’ar)
• Aromanian: Ghibraltar (rup) m
• Asturian: Xibraltar (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: Cəbəli-Tariq (az)
• Basque: Gibraltar (eu)
• Belarusian: Гібралтар (be) (Hibraltár) m
• Breton: Jibraltar (br)
• Bulgarian: Гибралтар (bg) (Gibraltár) m
• Catalan: Gibraltar (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 直布羅陀 (cmn), 直布罗陀 (cmn) (Zhíbùluótuó)

  Min Nan: Gibraltar (nan)

• Cornish: Jibraltar (kw)
• Czech: Gibraltar (cs) m
• Danish: Gibraltar (da)
• Dutch: Gibraltar (nl)
• Esperanto: Ĝibraltaro (eo)
• Estonian: Gibraltar (et)
• Finnish: Gibraltar (fi)
• French: Gibraltar (fr) m
• Galician: Xibraltar (gl) m
• Georgian: გიბრალტარი (ka) (gibraltari)
• German: Gibraltar (de)
• Greek: Γιβραλτάρ (el) (Yivraltár)
• Hebrew: גיברלטר (he) (gibraltar) m
• Hindi: जिब्राल्टर (hi) (jibrālṭar)
• Hungarian: Gibraltár (hu)
• Icelandic: Gíbraltar (is)
• Ido: Gibraltar (io)
• Indonesian: Gibraltar (id)
• Interlingua: Gibraltar (ia)
• Italian: Gibilterra (it) f
• Japanese: ジブラルタル (ja) (Jiburarutaru)
• Jèrriais: Gibraltar m
• Kapampangan: Gibraltar

• Kazakh: Жебелі-Тарық (kk) (Žebeli-Tarık)
• Korean: 지브롤터 (ko) (Jibeurolteo)
• Kurdish: Gibraltar (ku)
• Latin: Calpe (la)
• Latvian: Gibraltārs (lv)
• Lithuanian: Gibraltaras (lt)
• Low German: Gibraltar (nds)
• Luxembourgish: Gibraltar (lb)
• Macedonian: Гибралтар (mk) (Gibraltár) m
• Malay: Gibraltar (ms)
• Maltese: Ġibiltà (mt)
• Maori: Kamaka (mi)
• Norwegian: Gibraltar (no)
• Occitan: Gibartar (oc) m
• Persian: جبلالطارق (fa)
• Piedmontese: Gibiltëra
• Polish: Gibraltar (pl) m
• Portuguese: Gibraltar (pt) m
• Romanian: Gibraltar (ro)
• Russian: Гибралтар (ru) (Gibraltár) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Гибралтар (sh) m

  Roman: Gibraltar (sh) m

• Sicilian: Gibbilterra (scn) f
• Slovak: Gibraltár (sk) m
• Slovene: Gibraltar (sl) m
• Spanish: Gibraltar (es) m
• Swahili: Gibraltar (sw)
• Swedish: Gibraltar (sv)
• Tagalog: Gibraltar (tl)
• Thai: ยิบรอลตาร์ (th) (yíprondtaa)
• Turkish: Cebelitarık (tr)
• Ukrainian: Ґібралтар (uk) (Gibraltár) m, Гібралтар (uk) (Hibraltár) m
• Upper Sorbian: Gibraltar (hsb) m
• Venetian: Gibiltera f
• Vietnamese: Gibraltar (vi)
• Walloon: Djibraltar (wa)

Strait of Gibraltar — see Strait of Gibraltar

Synonyms

• (land territory): Mons Calpe (former name)
• (strait): Strait of Gibraltar, Straits of Gibraltar, STROG

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Czech

Proper noun

Gibraltar m

1. Gibraltar (UK overseas territory)

Derived terms

• gibraltarský

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Danish

Proper noun

Gibraltar

1. (geography) Gibraltar (UK overseas territory)

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Dutch

Wikipedia

Gibraltar

Proper noun

Gibraltar n

1. Gibraltar: overseas territory of the United Kingdom at the southern end of the Iberian peninsula.

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /gǐbraltaːr/
• Hyphenation: Gi‧bral‧tar

Proper noun

Gìbraltār m (Cyrillic spelling Гѝбралта̄р)

1. Gibraltar

Declension

    declension of Gibraltar

	singular
nominative	Gibraltar
genitive	Gibraltara
dative	Gibraltaru
accusative	Gibraltar
vocative	Gibraltare
locative	Gibraltaru
instrumental	Gibraltarom

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Spanish

Proper noun

Gibraltar

1. Gibraltar: overseas territory of the United Kingdom at the southern end of the Iberian peninsula.

Derived terms

• gibraltareño