Lisbon

Etymology
As the capital of Portugal, from, from , from , the origin of which is uncertain. Older spellings include and  (in the Visigothic era);  or  (by Greek writers),  (by Pliny the Elder), and  (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, but there is not much evidence for such words. Another possibility, based on hydronomy of the area, derives the name from 's appellation for the Tagus, or.

In other senses, with reference to the Portuguese city.

More at Lisbon.

Proper noun

 * 1)  around the capital.
 * 2)  The Portuguese government.
 * 1)  The Portuguese government.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Lissabon
 * Albanian: Lisbona, Lisbonë
 * Amharic: ሊዝቦን
 * Arabic: لِشْبُونَة, أُشْبُونَة
 * Hijazi: لِشْبونَة
 * Aragonese: Lisbona
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: Lisboa
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: Лісабо́н
 * Bengali: লিসবন
 * Bulgarian: Лисабо́н
 * Burmese: လစ်စဘွန်းမြို့
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 里斯本
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: Lissabon
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: Lisbono
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: Lisbone
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ლისაბონი
 * German:
 * Greek: Λισσαβώνα
 * Ancient Greek: Ὀλισσιπών
 * Hawaiian: Likepona
 * Hebrew: לִיסְבּוֹן
 * Hindi: लिस्बन
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: Lissabon
 * Irish: Liospóin
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: Лиссабон
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: Лиссабон
 * Lao: ລີຊະບົນ
 * Latin: Olisīpō
 * Latvian: Lisabona
 * Ligurian: Lisbonn-a
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Lissabon
 * Macedonian: Лисабон
 * Maltese: Liżbona
 * Middle French: Lissebonne
 * Mirandese: Lisboua
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: Лиссабон
 * North Frisian: Lisabon
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Occitan: Lisbona
 * Old Portuguese: Lixbõa
 * Ottoman Turkish: ⁧لیزبون⁩
 * Pashto: لزبن, لېزبن
 * Persian: لیسبون
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: Lisbona
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Лисабон
 * Roman: Lisabon
 * Slovak: Lisabon
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: Лиссабон
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: Лиссабон
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ལི་སི་བཱོན
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: Lissabon
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: لسبن
 * Uyghur: لىسبون
 * Uzbek: Lissabon
 * Venetian: Lisbona
 * Vietnamese: Li-xboa
 * West Frisian: Lissabon
 * Yiddish: ליסבאָן, ליסאַבאָן

Noun

 * 1) A sweet, light-coloured wine from Portugal.
 * 2) * 1808–10,, 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.