Albuquerque

proper nounattested in dialogue

United Kingdom//ˈæl.bə.kəː.ki//
United States//ˈæl.bə.kɚ.ki//

A surname from Spanish.

proper noun

1
A surname from Spanish.
2
The largest city in New Mexico, United States; the county seat of Bernalillo County.
The Trump administration is developing Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, into a “deportation hub” and considering Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque as a possible military detention site for undocumented immigrants, the New York Times reported on Feb. 21.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Albuquerque, from Latin albus (“white”) + quercus (“oak”) (white oak). Compare translingual Quercus alba. * (New Mexico): Borrowed from Spanish Alburquerque (a town in Spain), named after Spanish viceroy Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 8th Duke of Alburquerque (1619–1676).

Forms

plural: Albuquerques

Albert · A male given name from the Germanic languages.Alberto · A male given name from Italian or Spanish, equivalent to…album · A book specially designed to keep photographs, stamps, or…

Albuquerque · A surname from Spanish.

alcohol · Any of a class of organic compounds (such as ethanol)…alcoholic · A person who is addicted to alcohol.alderman · A member of a municipal legislative body in a city or town.

The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.