Gibraltar

See also Gibraltár

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From the Arabic جبل طارق (Jabal Ţāriq), meaning Mountain of Tariq, who lead 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

Gibraltar (British overseas territory)

Albanian: Gjibraltari (sq) Arabic: جبل طارق (ar) (jábal Taariq) m. Armenian: Ջիբրալթար (hy) (Jibralt’ar) Aromanian: Ghibraltar m. Asturian: Xibraltar m. Azerbaijani: Cəbəli-Tariq Basque: Gibraltar Belarusian: Гібралтар (be) (Hibraltár) m. Bosnian: Gibraltar (bs) m. Breton: Jibraltar Bulgarian: Гибралтар (bg) (Gibraltár) m. Catalan: Gibraltar m. Chinese: Mandarin: 直布羅陀 (cmn), 直布罗陀 (cmn) (Zhíbùluótuó) Min Nan: Gibraltar Cornish: Jibraltar Croatian: Gibraltar (hr) m. 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 Ido: Gibraltar Indonesian: Gibraltar (id) Interlingua: Gibraltar Italian: Gibilterra (it) f. Japanese: ジブラルタル  (ja) (Jiburarutaru) 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 Saxon: Gibraltar Luxembourgish: Gibraltar Macedonian: Гибралтар (mk) (Gibraltár) m. Malay: Gibraltar (ms) Maltese: Ġibiltà (mt) Maori: Kamaka (mi) Norwegian: Gibraltar (no) Occitan: Gibartar 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 f. Slovak: Gibraltár (sk) m. Slovene: Gibraltar (sl) m. Spanish: Gibraltar (es) m. Swahili: Gibraltar (sw) Swedish: Gibraltar (sv) Tagalog: Gibraltar Thai: ยิบรอลตาร์ (th) (yíprondtaa) Turkish: Cebelitarık (tr) Ukrainian: Ґібралтар (uk) (Gibraltár) m., Гібралтар (uk) (Hibraltár) m. Upper Sorbian: Gibraltar m. Venetian: Gibiltera f. Vietnamese: Gibraltar (vi) Walloon: Djibraltar

Strait of Gibraltar

Afrikaans: Straat van Gibraltar Catalan: Estret de Gibraltar m. Czech: Gibraltarský průliv m. Danish: Gibraltarstrædet n. French: détroit de Gibraltar m. German: Straße von Gibraltar (de) f. Hungarian: Gibraltári-szoros (hu) Macedonian: Гибралтарски Проток (mk) (Gibraltárski Prótok) m., Гибралтарски Теснец (mk) (Gibraltárski Tésnec) m.

Norwegian: Bokmål: Gibraltarstredet Nynorsk: Gibraltarsundet Russian: Гибралтарский пролив (ru) (Gibraltárskij prolív) m. Spanish: Estrecho de Gibraltar m. Turkish: Cebelitarık Boğazı (tr)

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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Dutch

Wikipedia

Proper noun

Gibraltar

Gibraltar

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

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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