Faaron
Old Galician-Portuguese
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Arabic هَارُون (hārūn), named after a local Muslim chieftain.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editFaaron
- Faro (a city in the Algarve region, in modern Portugal)
- Synonym: Santa Maria
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 183 (facsimile):
- Eſta e dun miragre q̇ moſtrou ſtȧ maria en Faaron q̇do era de mouros.
- This is about a miracle that Holy Mary showed in Faro when it was Moorish.
- Eſta e dun miragre q̇ moſtrou ſtȧ maria en Faaron q̇do era de mouros.