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".

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Sānbǎoyán

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄢ ㄅㄠˇ ㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): saam¹ bou² ngaan⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Sam-pó-gân

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Sānbǎoyán
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄢ ㄅㄠˇ ㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Sanbǎoyán
    • Wade–Giles: San¹-pao³-yen²
    • Yale: Sān-bǎu-yán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Sanbaoyan
    • Palladius: Саньбаоянь (Sanʹbaojanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sän⁵⁵ pɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ jɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: saam¹ bou² ngaan⁴
    • Yale: sāam bóu ngàahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: saam¹ bou² ngaan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: sam¹ bou² ngan⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːm⁵⁵ pou̯³⁵ ŋaːn²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Philippines)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sam-pó-gân
    • Tâi-lô: Sam-pó-gân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: sampoy'gaan
    • IPA (Philippines): /sam³³ po⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ ɡan²⁴/

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