Gibraltar
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Spanish Gibraltar, from Arabic جَبَل طَارِق (jabal ṭāriq, “Mount Tariq”), named after Tariq ibn Ziyad, who led the Umayyad conquest of Hispania, starting in 711. Replaced earlier Latin Mons Calpe (“Mount Calpe”) for the land, and Columnae Herculis, from Ancient Greek Ἡράκλειαι στῆλαι (Hērákleiai stêlai, “Pillars of Hercules”), for the strait.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /d͡ʒɪˈbɹɔːltə(ɹ)/, /d͡ʒɪˈbɹɒltə(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːltə(ɹ), -ɒltə(ɹ)
Proper noun[edit]
Gibraltar
- A peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia.
- A strait connecting the Mediterranean to the Atlantic between Gibraltar and Morocco.
Synonyms[edit]
- (land territory): Mons Calpe (former name)
- (strait): Strait of Gibraltar, Straits of Gibraltar, STROG
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
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Further reading[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
"Gibraltar" is the name of a line of tumblers made by glassware company Libbey. The drink was named in 2005, by Steve Ford at Blue Bottle Coffee in San Francisco, after the glass in which its version was served.[1][2]
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
Gibraltar (plural Gibraltars)
- (chiefly Canada, US); (originally) A cortado served in a small glass; (by extension) any cortado
- 2013 October 30, "The Mighty Vancouver Cafe Crawl" Little Ninja Chef [photo caption]:
- Two Gibraltars (decaf) at Kafka
- 2015 February 26, Greta Kaul, “Startup that lets chefs review restaurants lands $4 million”, in SFGate:
- At a recent meeting at Mint Plaza’s Blue Bottle Coffee, Maggiotto ordered a Gibraltar, a small, milky espresso drink.
- 2016 June 29, Gretchen Fox, “How To Create A Loyal Customer In Under Five Minutes”, in Forbes:
- I paid for my beans and sipped my perfectly-made Gibraltar as I walked down the street thinking about how I would now always order from his pizza company.
- 2013 October 30, "The Mighty Vancouver Cafe Crawl" Little Ninja Chef [photo caption]:
References[edit]
- ^ James Freeman, Caitlin Freeman, Tara Duggan (2012) The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee: Growing, Roasting, and Drinking, with Recipes[1], Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed, →ISBN, pages 124–5
- ^ The Story Behind The Gibraltar / Cortado rawpluscoffee
Catalan[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): (Central) [ʒi.βɾəlˈta]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [ʒi.bɾəlˈta]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [d͡ʒi.bɾalˈtaɾ]
Proper noun[edit]
Gibraltar m
- Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)
Cebuano[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Gibraltar
- a surname
- Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)
Czech[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Gibraltar m inan (related adjective gibraltarský)
- Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)
Declension[edit]
singular | |
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nominative | Gibraltar |
genitive | Gibraltaru |
dative | Gibraltaru |
accusative | Gibraltar |
vocative | Gibraltare |
locative | Gibraltaru |
instrumental | Gibraltarem |
Danish[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Gibraltar
- Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Gibraltar n
- Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Gibraltar m
- Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)
Derived terms[edit]
German[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ɡiˈbral.tar/, [ɡiˈbʁal.taʁ], [ɡɪ-], [-taɐ̯], /-tər/, [-tɐ]
- IPA(key): /ɡi.bralˈtaːr/, [-ˈtaː(ɐ̯)] (rare)
Audio: (file)
Proper noun[edit]
Gibraltar n (proper noun, genitive Gibraltars or (optionally with an article) Gibraltar)
- Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Gibraltar
- Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)
Derived terms[edit]
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Gibraltar
- Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)
Derived terms[edit]
Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English Gibraltar, from Spanish Gibraltar, from Arabic جَبَل طَارِق (jabal ṭāriq).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Gibraltar m inan
- Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)
- Gibraltar (a strait connecting the Mediterranean to the Atlantic between Gibraltar and Morocco)
Declension[edit]
singular | |
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nominative | Gibraltar |
genitive | Gibraltaru |
dative | Gibraltarowi |
accusative | Gibraltar |
instrumental | Gibraltarem |
locative | Gibraltarze |
vocative | Gibraltarze |
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Gibraltar in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Gibraltar m
- Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Gìbraltār m (Cyrillic spelling Гѝбралта̄р)
- Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)
Declension[edit]
singular | |
---|---|
nominative | Gibraltar |
genitive | Gibraltara |
dative | Gibraltaru |
accusative | Gibraltar |
vocative | Gibraltare |
locative | Gibraltaru |
instrumental | Gibraltarom |
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Gibraltar m
- Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)
Derived terms[edit]
Swedish[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Gibraltar n (genitive Gibraltars)
- Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)
Turkmen[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Gibraltar
- Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)
- English terms borrowed from Spanish
- English terms derived from Spanish
- English terms derived from Arabic
- English terms derived from the Arabic root ج ب ل
- English terms derived from the Arabic root ط ر ق
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɔːltə(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/ɔːltə(ɹ)/3 syllables
- Rhymes:English/ɒltə(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/ɒltə(ɹ)/3 syllables
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Gibraltar
- en:Peninsulas
- en:Cities in the United Kingdom
- en:Dependent territories of the United Kingdom
- en:Places in the United Kingdom
- en:Straits
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- Canadian English
- American English
- English terms with quotations
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan proper nouns
- Catalan masculine nouns
- ca:Gibraltar
- ca:Peninsulas
- ca:Cities in the United Kingdom
- ca:Dependent territories of the United Kingdom
- ca:Places in the United Kingdom
- Cebuano lemmas
- Cebuano proper nouns
- Cebuano surnames
- ceb:Gibraltar
- ceb:Peninsulas
- ceb:Cities in the United Kingdom
- ceb:Dependent territories of the United Kingdom
- ceb:Places in the United Kingdom
- Czech terms with IPA pronunciation
- Czech lemmas
- Czech proper nouns
- Czech masculine nouns
- Czech inanimate nouns
- cs:Gibraltar
- cs:Peninsulas
- cs:Cities in the United Kingdom
- cs:Dependent territories of the United Kingdom
- cs:Places in the United Kingdom
- Czech uncountable nouns
- Czech masculine inanimate nouns
- Czech hard masculine inanimate nouns
- Danish lemmas
- Danish proper nouns
- da:Gibraltar
- da:Peninsulas
- da:Cities in the United Kingdom
- da:Dependent territories of the United Kingdom
- da:Places in the United Kingdom
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch proper nouns
- Dutch neuter nouns
- nl:Gibraltar
- nl:Peninsulas
- nl:Cities in the United Kingdom
- nl:Dependent territories of the United Kingdom
- nl:Places in the United Kingdom
- French 3-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French proper nouns
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Gibraltar
- fr:Peninsulas
- fr:Cities in the United Kingdom
- fr:Dependent territories of the United Kingdom
- fr:Places in the United Kingdom
- German 3-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio links
- German lemmas
- German proper nouns
- German neuter nouns
- de:Gibraltar
- de:Peninsulas
- de:Cities in the United Kingdom
- de:Dependent territories of the United Kingdom
- de:Places in the United Kingdom
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål proper nouns
- nb:Gibraltar
- nb:Peninsulas
- nb:Cities in the United Kingdom
- nb:Dependent territories of the United Kingdom
- nb:Places in the United Kingdom
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk proper nouns
- nn:Gibraltar
- nn:Peninsulas
- nn:Cities in the United Kingdom
- nn:Dependent territories of the United Kingdom
- nn:Places in the United Kingdom
- Polish terms borrowed from English
- Polish terms derived from English
- Polish terms derived from Spanish
- Polish terms derived from Arabic
- Polish 3-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Polish/altar
- Rhymes:Polish/altar/3 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish proper nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish inanimate nouns
- pl:Gibraltar
- pl:Peninsulas
- pl:Cities in the United Kingdom
- pl:Dependent territories of the United Kingdom
- pl:Places in the United Kingdom
- pl:Straits
- Polish singularia tantum
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese 4-syllable words
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese proper nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Gibraltar
- pt:Peninsulas
- pt:Cities in the United Kingdom
- pt:Dependent territories of the United Kingdom
- pt:Places in the United Kingdom
- Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian proper nouns
- Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns
- sh:Gibraltar
- sh:Peninsulas
- sh:Cities in the United Kingdom
- sh:Dependent territories of the United Kingdom
- sh:Places in the United Kingdom
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɾ
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɾ/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish proper nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Gibraltar
- es:Peninsulas
- es:Cities in the United Kingdom
- es:Dependent territories of the United Kingdom
- es:Places in the United Kingdom
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish proper nouns
- Swedish neuter nouns
- sv:Gibraltar
- sv:Peninsulas
- sv:Cities in the United Kingdom
- sv:Dependent territories of the United Kingdom
- sv:Places in the United Kingdom
- Turkmen lemmas
- Turkmen proper nouns
- tk:Gibraltar
- tk:Peninsulas
- tk:Cities in the United Kingdom
- tk:Dependent territories of the United Kingdom
- tk:Places in the United Kingdom