- Gibraltar
[Gibraltar 词源字典]
- 1590s, ancient Calpe, captured 710 C.E. by Saracen leader Tariq, renamed Jebel el Tarik "the Mountain of Tarik," hence the English name. A British possession since 1704. Figurative of impregnability by 1856. Formerly also the name of a kind of rock-candy (1831).[Gibraltar etymology, Gibraltar origin, 英语词源]