Etymology

Lisboa

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Portuguese Lisboa ← Old Galician-Portuguese Lixbõa ← Arabic لِشْبُونَة (lišbūna)
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The story

  1. LatinOlisīpō
  2. Vulgar LatinOlisipona
  3. Arabicلِشْبُونَة (lišbūna)
  4. Old Galician-PortugueseLixbõa
  5. PortugueseLisboa
  6. English todayLisboa

Derived from Portuguese Lisboa.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.