三寶顏

Chinese
phonetic
trad. (三寶顏) 三 寶 顏
simp. (三宝颜) 三 宝 颜

Etymology
Zamboanga City, as illustrated in the Velarde Map (1734)

From Central Sama Samboangan (“mooring place”) from samboang (“mooring pole”) +‎ -an (“place marker suffix”), as attested in the Velarde Map (1734). A popular folk etymology may also attribute it to either Indonesian jambangan (“flower garden”) or Malay jambangan (“flower garden”) or Tausug jambangan (“flower garden”) from jambang (“flower pot”) +‎ -an (“place marker suffix”), but this name has never been attested in any historical records prior to the 1960s with the place being attested usually instead as "Samboangan".[1]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

三寶顏

  1. (～市) Zamboanga City (a city in the Philippines)
  2. (～省) any of the three provinces of the Zamboanga Peninsula
  3. (～半島) Zamboanga Peninsula (a peninsula in the Philippines)
  4. (historical) Province of Zamboanga (a former province of the Philippines)
  5. (historical) Republic of Zamboanga

References
  1. Enriquez, A.R. (2011 September 5) “Jambangan: the "Garden of Flowers" never was!”, in Antonio Enriquez's name‎, retrieved 13 September 2016
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