Cape Trafalgar
Cape Trafalgar (Spaingie: Cabo Trafalgar [ˈkaβo tɾafalˈɣaɾ], Arabic: رأس طرف الغرب) is a heidland in the Province o Cádiz in the sooth-wast o Spain. The 1805 naval Battle o Trafalgar, in which the Ryal Navy destroyed Napoleon's combined Spainyie an French fleet, teuk place aff the cape.
It lees on the shore o the Atlantic Ocean, northwast o the Strait o Gibraltar at 36°10'58"N, 6°2'2"W. The Internaitional Hydrographic Organization defines the Wastren limit o the strait as a line that jyns Cape Trafalgar tae the north tae Cape Spartel tae the sooth.
The maist prominent structur on the cape is a 34-metre-heich lichthoose (51 metres abuin sea level), the faro de Cabo Trafalgar, built in 1860.
Etymology
[eedit | eedit soorce]The name is o Arabic oreegin, correspondin possibly tae Taraf al-Gharb (طرف الغرب 'cape o the wast')[1][2] or Taraf al-Ghar (طرف الغار 'cape o the cave/laurel').[3][4][2]
In baith cases, taraf (طرف) leeterally means 'edge' or 'extremity'[5] an hence refers tae a promontory (edge o the laund).
In modren Arabic, housomeivver, the place is sometimes re-transcribit as al-Taraf al-Aghar (الطرف الأغر).[6]
References
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- ↑ Prof. Joseph E. Garreau, A Cultural Introduction to the Languages of Europe Archived 2020-12-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ a b Richard Burton, The Arabian Nights (vol. 9)'s footnote 82
- ↑ A page of a professor of the Facultad de Filología of the Universidad de Salamanca
- ↑ Entry algar, in DRAE dictionary
- ↑ Taraf (‘extremity’) derives frae the ruit tarafa (tae wink)
- ↑ Etymology and Meaning of Trafalgar