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Granada

/ɡɾaˈnada/

proper noun/ɡɾaˈnada/

Granada (a province of Andalusia, Spain; capital: Granada); Granada (a city in Granada, Spain); Grenada (an island and country in the Caribbean); Granada (a department of Nicaragua)

Borrowed from Arabic غَرْنَاطَة (ḡarnāṭa), originally the name of a medieval suburb that was incorporated into the city. Unrelated to granada (“pomegranate”), to which it came to be associated by folk etymology.