Gibraltar

See also: Gíbraltar and Gibraltár

English

Etymology 1

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

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪˈbɹɔːltə(ɹ)/, /d͡ʒɪˈbɹɒltə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɔːltə(ɹ)

Proper noun

Gibraltar

2. A peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia.
4. A strait connecting the Mediterranean to the Atlantic between Gibraltar and Morocco.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• Gibraltarian
• Gibraltar rock
• Gibraltar Rock
• Rock of Gibraltar
• Strait of Gibraltar

Translations

British overseas territory

• Albanian: Gjibraltar m, Gjibraltari m (definite)
• Amharic: ጅብራልታር (ǧəbraltar)
• Arabic: جَبَل طَارِق‎ m (jabal ṭāriq)

  Hijazi Arabic: جَبَل طارِق‎ m or f (jabal ṭārig)

• Armenian: Ջիբրալթար (J̌ibraltʿar)
• Aromanian: Ghibraltar m
• Asturian: Xibraltar m
• Azerbaijani: Cəbəllüttariq (az)
• Basque: Gibraltar
• Belarusian: Гібралта́р m (Hibraltár)
• Bengali: জিব্রাল্টার (jibralṭar)
• Breton: Jibraltar
• Bulgarian: Гибралта́р (bg) m (Gibraltár)
• Burmese: ဂျီဘရော်လ်တာ (gyibha.raulta)
• Catalan: Gibraltar (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 直布羅陀／直布罗陀 (zik⁶ bou³ lo⁴ to⁴)

  Mandarin: 直布羅陀／直布罗陀 (zh) (Zhíbùluótuó)

• Cornish: Jibraltar
• Czech: Gibraltar (cs) m
• Danish: Gibraltar n
• Dutch: Gibraltar (nl) n
• Esperanto: Ĝibraltaro
• Estonian: Gibraltar (et)
• Faroese: Gibraltar n
• Finnish: Gibraltar (fi)
• French: Gibraltar (fr) m
• Galician: Xibraltar (gl) m
• Georgian: გიბრალტარი (ka) (gibralṭari)
• German: Gibraltar (de) n
• Greek: Γιβραλτάρ (el) (Givraltár)

  Ancient: Ἡράκλειαι στῆλαι f pl (Hērákleiai stêlai)

• Hebrew: גיברלטר‎ m (gibraltar)
• Hindi: जिब्राल्टर (hi) m (jibrālṭar)
• Hungarian: Gibraltár (hu)
• Icelandic: Gíbraltar n
• Ido: Gibraltar
• Indonesian: Gibraltar
• Interlingua: Gibraltar
• Italian: Gibilterra (it) f
• Japanese: ジブラルタル (Jiburarutaru)
• Kapampangan: Gibraltar
• Kazakh: Жебелі-Тарық (Jebelı-Taryq), Гибралтар (Gibraltar)
• Khmer: ស៊ីប្រាល់តា (siiprŏəltaa)
• Korean: 지브롤터 (Jibeurolteo), 지브랄타르 (Jibeuraltareu) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Gibraltar (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Гибралтар (ky) (Gibraltar)
• Latin: Calpe
• Latvian: Gibraltārs m
• Lithuanian: Gibraltaras (lt) m
• Low German: Gibraltar
• Luxembourgish: Gibraltar
• Macedonian: Гибралтар m (Gibraltar)
• Malay: Gibraltar
• Maltese: Ġibiltà
• Maori: Kamaka
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Гибралтар (Gibraltar)

• Norman: Dgibrâltar m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Gibraltar n

  Nynorsk: Gibraltar n

• Occitan: Gibartar (oc) m
• Pashto: جبل الطارق‎ m (jabal at-tāriq)
• Persian: جَبل‌الطّارِق‎ (jabal-et-târeq), جَبَل‌طارِق‎ (jabal-târeq)
• Piedmontese: Gibiltëra
• Polish: Gibraltar (pl) m
• Portuguese: Gibraltar (pt) m
• Romanian: Gibraltar
• Russian: Гибралта́р (ru) m (Gibraltár)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Гѝбралта̄р m

  Roman: Gìbraltār (sh) m

• Sicilian: Gibbilterra f
• Sinhalese: ජිබ්‍රෝල්ටාව (jibrōlṭāwa)
• Slovak: Gibraltár m
• Slovene: Gibraltar (sl) m
• Spanish: Gibraltar (es) m
• Swahili: Gibraltar (sw)
• Swedish: Gibraltar (sv) n
• Tagalog: Hibraltar
• Tajik: Гибралтар (Gibraltar)
• Tamil: ஜிப்ரால்ட்டர் (jiprālṭṭar)
• Tatar: Гибралтар (Gibraltar)
• Thai: ยิบรอลตาร์ (yíp-rɔɔl-dtâa)
• Turkish: Cebelitarık (tr)
• Turkmen: Gibraltar
• Ukrainian: Ґібралта́р m (Gibraltár), Гібралта́р m (Hibraltár)
• Upper Sorbian: Gibraltar m
• Urdu: جَبَل‌الطّارِق‎ (jabal-at-tāriq)
• Uzbek: Gibraltar
• Venetian: Gibiltera f
• Walloon: Djibraltar (wa)

Strait of Gibraltar — see Strait of Gibraltar

Further reading

• Gibraltar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

"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.

Alternative forms

• gibraltar

Noun

Gibraltar (plural Gibraltars)

1. (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.

Catalan

Proper noun

Gibraltar m

1. Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)

Cebuano

Proper noun

Gibraltar

1. a surname
2. Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)
3. Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdʒɪbraltar]

Proper noun

Gibraltar m inan (related adjective gibraltarský)

1. Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)

Declension

Declension of Gibraltar (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)

	singular
nominative	Gibraltar
genitive	Gibraltaru
dative	Gibraltaru
accusative	Gibraltar
vocative	Gibraltare
locative	Gibraltaru
instrumental	Gibraltarem

Danish

Proper noun

Gibraltar

1. Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣɪˈbrɑltɑr/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Gibraltar n

1. Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒi.bʁal.taʁ/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Gibraltar m

1. Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)

Derived terms

• détroit de Gibraltar
• gibraltarien
• Gibraltarien

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡiˈbral.tar/, [ɡiˈbʁal.taʁ], [ɡɪ-], [-taɐ̯], /-tər/, [-tɐ]
• IPA^(key): /ɡi.bralˈtaːr/, [-ˈtaː(ɐ̯)] (rare)

• Audio

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Proper noun

Gibraltar n (proper noun, genitive Gibraltars or (optionally with an article) Gibraltar)

1. Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Gibraltar

1. Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)

Derived terms

• Gibraltarstredet

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Gibraltar

1. Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)

Derived terms

• Gibraltarsundet

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Gibraltar, from Spanish Gibraltar, from Arabic جَبَل طَارِق‎ (jabal ṭāriq).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡibˈral.tar/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -altar
• Syllabification: Gib‧ral‧tar

Proper noun

Gibraltar m inan

1. Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)
2. Gibraltar (a strait connecting the Mediterranean to the Atlantic between Gibraltar and Morocco)

Declension

Declension of Gibraltar

	singular
nominative	Gibraltar
genitive	Gibraltaru
dative	Gibraltarowi
accusative	Gibraltar
instrumental	Gibraltarem
locative	Gibraltarze
vocative	Gibraltarze

Derived terms

adjective

• gibraltarski

 

nouns

• Gibraltarczyk
• Gibraltarka

 

Further reading

• Gibraltar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒi.bɾawˈtaʁ/ [ʒi.bɾaʊ̯ˈtah]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒi.bɾawˈtaʁ/ [ʒi.bɾaʊ̯ˈtah]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ʒi.bɾawˈtaɾ/ [ʒi.bɾaʊ̯ˈtaɾ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ʒi.bɾawˈtaʁ/ [ʒi.bɾaʊ̯ˈtaχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒi.bɾawˈtaɻ/ [ʒi.bɾaʊ̯ˈtaɻ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʒi.bɾalˈtaɾ/ [ʒi.βɾaɫˈtaɾ]

Proper noun

Gibraltar m

1. Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡǐbraltaːr/
• Hyphenation: Gi‧bral‧tar

Proper noun

Gìbraltār m (Cyrillic spelling Гѝбралта̄р)

1. Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)

Declension

Declension of Gibraltar

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xibɾalˈtaɾ/ [xi.β̞ɾal̪ˈt̪aɾ]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: Gi‧bral‧tar

Proper noun

Gibraltar m

1. Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)

Derived terms

• estrecho de Gibraltar
• gibraltareño

 

Swedish

Proper noun

Gibraltar n (genitive Gibraltars)

1. Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)

Turkmen

Proper noun

Gibraltar

1. Gibraltar (a peninsula, city, and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, at the southern end of Iberia)