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From SpanishZamboanga, from Central SamaSamboangan(“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 Indonesianjambangan(“flower garden”) or Malayjambangan(“flower garden”) or Tausugjambangan(“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]
^ 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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Etymology
From SpanishZamboanga, from Central SamaSamboangan(“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 Indonesianjambangan(“flower garden”) or Malayjambangan(“flower garden”) or Tausugjambangan(“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]
Borrowed from SpanishZamboanga, from Central SamaSamboangan(“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 Indonesianjambangan(“flower garden”) or Malayjambangan(“flower garden”) or Tausugjambangan(“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]