Grenada

The story

1. Arabic · derived fromغَرْنَاطَة
2. Spanish · derived fromGranada
3. French · derived fromGrenade
4. English todayGrenada

From anglicization/latinization of French Grenade upon the island's cession to the United Kingdom under the terms of the 1763 Treaty of Paris ending the Seven Years' War, from Spanish Granada and Los Granadillos on Spanish maps from at least the 1520s, from Granada in Spain, from Arabic غَرْنَاطَة (ḡarnāṭa), originally a suburb of the city. Doublet of Granada.

Words from the same roots