Seville

See also: Séville

English

Etymology

From (possibly through a Middle French form) Spanish Sevilla, from Arabic إِشْبِيلِيَة (ʔišbīliya), from Latin Hispalis, ultimately from Phoenician 𐤔𐤐𐤋𐤄 (šplh /⁠sefela⁠/, “plain, valley”). Compare Hebrew שפלה (shfela, “lowland”), Arabic سافل (safil, “lowly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈvɪl/, but usually /ˈsEvəl/, in the late-stressed expression Seville orange.

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• Rhymes: -ɪl

Proper noun

Seville

1. The capital city of Andalusia, Spain.
2. A province of Andalusia, Spain.
3. A surname.
4. A census-designated place in Tulare County, California, United States.

Synonyms

• (1): Hims al-Andalus (historical), Ishbiliyah (historical), Pearl of Andalusia (informal)

Derived terms

• Sevillan/Sevillian/Sevillano
• Seville orange

Translations

city in Andalusia, Spain

• Arabic: إِشْبِيلِيَة f (ʔišbīliya), حِمْص الأَنْدَلُس (ḥimṣ al-ʔandalus) (historical)

  Hijazi Arabic: إشبيلْية f (ʔišbīlya)

• Armenian: Սեւիլյա (Sewilya)
• Azerbaijani: Sevilya (az)
• Basque: Sevilla
• Bulgarian: Севиля f (Sevilja)
• Catalan: Sevilla (ca) f
• Cebuano: Sevilla
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塞維利亞 / 塞维利亚 (zh) (Sāiwéilìyà)

• Czech: Sevilla (cs) f
• Danish: Sevilla
• Dutch: Sevilla n
• Esperanto: Sevilo
• Estonian: Sevilla (et)
• Farefare: Sevilya
• Finnish: Sevilla (fi)
• French: Séville (fr) f
• Galician: Sevilla (gl) f
• Georgian: სევილია (sevilia)
• German: Sevilla (de) n
• Greek: Σεβίλλη (el) f (Sevílli)
• Hebrew: סֶבִילְיָה f (Sevília)
• Hungarian: Sevilla (hu)
• Irish: Sevilla f
• Italian: Siviglia f
• Japanese: セビリア (Sebiria), セビリヤ (Sebiriya), セビリャ (Sebirya), セビージャ (Sebīja)
• Korean: 세비야 (ko) (Sebiya)
• Latin: Hispalis f
• Latvian: Sevilja f
• Lithuanian: Sevilija f
• Macedonian: Севи́лја f (Sevílja), Севи́ља f (Sevílja)
• Marathi: सेव्हिल n (sevhil)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Sevilla f

  Nynorsk: Sevilla f

• Occitan: Sevilha (oc) f
• Phoenician: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: Sewilla (pl) f
• Portuguese: Sevilha (pt) f
• Romanian: Sevilla f, Sevilia f
• Russian: Севи́лья (ru) f (Sevílʹja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Севиља f

  Roman: Sevilla (sh) f, Sevilja f

• Sicilian: Scivigghia f, Scibbilia f; Xibilia f
• Slovak: Sevilla f
• Slovene: Sevilja f
• Spanish: Sevilla (es) f
• Swedish: Sevilla c
• Tagalog: Sevilla
• Turkish: Sevilla
• Ukrainian: Севі́лья f (Sevílʹja)
• Urdu: اَشْبِیلِیَہ m (aśbīliyah)
• Yiddish: סעווילאַ f (sevila)

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