The story
- Arabic · derived fromوَادِي الْخَانَات“Valley of the Stalls”
- Spanish · borrowed fromGuadalcanal
- English todayGuadalcanal
From Spanish Guadalcanal. The Pacific island was named in 1568 by Álvaro de Mendaña, after his hometown of Guadalcanal, Spain. From Arabic وَادِي الْخَانَات (wādī l-ḵānāt, “Valley of the Stalls”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.