Lisbon

English

Etymology

From French Lisbonne, from Arabic لِشْبُونَة‎ (lišbūna), from Latin Olisīpō, the origin of which is uncertain. Older spellings include Ulixbona and Ulixbuna (in the Visigothic era); Ὀλισσιπών (Olissipṓn) or Ὀλισσιπόνα (Olissipóna) (by Greek writers), Olisippo (by Pliny the Elder), and Ulyssippo (by Pomponius Mela of Hispania), the last of which relates to the first-century Roman folk etymology that it was founded by and named after Ulysses; another common folk etymology is the Phoenician 𐤏𐤋𐤉𐤑 𐤏𐤁𐤀‎ (ʿlyṣ ʿbʾ /⁠ʿaliṣ-ʿuboʾ⁠/, “safe harbour”), but there is not much evidence for such words.

Another possibility, based on hydronomy of the area, derives the name from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia's appellation for the Tagus, Lisso or Lucio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪzbən/

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• Rhymes: -ɪzbən

Proper noun

Lisbon

1. The capital city of Portugal; capital city of Lisbon district.
2. (metonymically) the Portuguese government
3. A district of Portugal.
4. A city, the county seat of Ransom County, North Dakota, United States.
5. A village, the county seat of Columbiana County, Ohio, United States, originally named New Lisbon.

Derived terms

• Lisboner
• Lisbonite
• New Lisbon

Translations

capital city of Portugal

• Afrikaans: Lissabon
• Albanian: Lisbona f, Lisbonë f (indefinite)
• Amharic: ሊዝቦን (lizbon)
• Arabic: لِشْبُونَة‎ f (lišbūna), أُشْبُونَة‎ f (ʔušbūna) (archaic)

  Hijazi: لِشْبونَة‎ (lišbōna)

• Aragonese: Lisbona f
• Armenian: Լիսաբոն (hy) (Lisabon)
• Asturian: Lisboa f
• Azerbaijani: Lissabon (az)
• Basque: Lisboa (eu)
• Belarusian: Лісабо́н m (Lisabón)
• Bengali: লিসবন (lisbon)
• Bulgarian: Лисабо́н m (Lisabón)
• Burmese: လစ်စဘွန်းမြို့ (lacca.bhwan:mrui.)
• Catalan: Lisboa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 里斯本 (lei⁵ si¹ bun²)

  Mandarin: 里斯本 (zh) (Lǐsīběn)

• Czech: Lisabon (cs) m
• Danish: Lissabon n
• Dutch: Lissabon (nl) n
• Esperanto: Lisbono
• Finnish: Lissabon (fi)
• French: Lisbonne (fr) f
• Friulian: Lisbone
• Galician: Lisboa (gl) f
• Georgian: ლისაბონი (lisaboni)
• German: Lissabon (de) n
• Greek: Λισσαβώνα f (Lissavóna)

  Ancient Greek: Ὀλισσιπών (Olissipṓn)

• Hawaiian: Likepona
• Hebrew: לִיסְבּוֹן‎ f (lísbon)
• Hindi: लिस्बन m (lisban)
• Hungarian: Lisszabon (hu)
• Icelandic: Lissabon f
• Irish: Liospóin f
• Italian: Lisbona (it) f
• Japanese: リスボン (ja) (Risubon)
• Kazakh: Лиссабон (Lissabon)
• Khmer: លីសបោន (km) (liisbaon)
• Korean: 리스본 (ko) (Riseubon)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Lîzbon

• Kyrgyz: Лиссабон (Lissabon)
• Lao: ລີຊະບົນ (lī sa bon)
• Latin: Olisīpō
• Latvian: Lisabona f
• Ligurian: Lisbonn-a
• Lithuanian: Lisabona (lt) f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Lissabon n

• Macedonian: Лисабон m (Lisabon)
• Maltese: Lisbona
• Middle French: Lissebonne
• Mirandese: Lisboua
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Лиссабон (Lissabon)

• North Frisian: Lisabon
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Lisboa (no), Lissabon (no)

• Occitan: Lisbona f
• Old Portuguese: Lixbõa
• Pashto: لزبن‎ m (lezbón), لېزبن‎ m (lezbon)
• Persian: لیسبون‎ (lisbon)
• Polish: Lizbona (pl) f
• Portuguese: Lisboa (pt) f
• Romanian: Lisabona (ro)
• Romansch: Lisbona f
• Russian: Лиссабо́н (ru) m (Lissabón)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Лисабон m

  Roman: Lisabon m

• Slovak: Lisabon m
• Slovene: Lizbóna (sl) f
• Spanish: Lisboa (es) f
• Swedish: Lissabon (sv) n
• Tajik: Лиссабон (Lissabon)
• Tamil: லிஸ்பன் (ta) (lispaṉ)
• Tatar: Лиссабон (Lissabon)
• Thai: ลิสบอน (th) (lís-bɔ̂n)
• Tibetan: ལི་སི་བཱོན (li si bōn)
• Turkish: Lizbon
• Turkmen: Lissabon
• Ukrainian: Лісабо́н (uk) m (Lisabón)
• Urdu: لسبن‎ m (lisban)
• Uyghur: لىسبون‎ (lisbon)
• Uzbek: Lissabon
• Venetian: Lisbona f
• Vietnamese: Li-xboa
• West Frisian: Lissabon n
• Yiddish: ליסבאָן‎ n (lisbon), ליסאַבאָן‎ n (lisabon)

Noun

Lisbon

1. A sweet, light-coloured wine from Portugal.
   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 165:

     We had plenty of port wine and Lisbon, which, with uninterrupted good humour, made the hours glide rapidly away.

See also

• Lisboa

Anagrams

• Bolins, bolins

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪsbən/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪzbən/

Proper noun

Lisbon f (not mutable)

1. Lisbon (the capital city of Portugal)