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Navarra

/naˈbara/

proper noun/naˈbara/

Navarre (an autonomous community and province in northern Spain; capital: Pamplona); Navarre (a former kingdom, originally predominantly Basque-speaking, in modern northern Spain and southwest France); Navarre (a geographic region and former province in the Northern Basque Country in the present Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwest France; in full, Lower Navarre); the letter N in the Spanish spelling alphabet

Believed to be of Basque origin, possibly from nabar (“brownish, multicolored”), or from naba (“valley”) + herri (“land, people”). More at Navarre.

proper noun/naˈbara/

a habitational surname

Believed to be of Basque origin, possibly from nabar (“brownish, multicolored”), or from naba (“valley”) + herri (“land, people”). More at Navarre.