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==Etymology== {{redirect-distinguish|Gameroon|Cameroon}} Bandar Abbas has always been a [[port]], and as such its various names have all reflected this function. The most common name over time was '''Gameroon''', with various spellings. In [[Henry Yule]]'s [[Hobson-Jobson|dictionary of Anglo-Indian jargon]] two etymologies are given; the first derived from ''gümrük'', "customhouse" (from Late Greek ''kommerkion'', from Latin ''commercium'', "commerce"). The second, which Yule found much more convincing, comes from Persian ''kamrūn'', "shrimp" (in Portuguese: ''camarão'', similar to the former Portuguese name).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.1:1:38.hobson|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728111245/http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.1:1:38.hobson|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-07-28|title=Hobson Jobson Dictionary<!-- Bot generated title -->}}</ref> Its current name derives from that of [[Abbas the Great]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/bandar-e-abbasi|title=BANDAR-E ʿABBAS(I) i. The City – Encyclopaedia Iranica|last=electricpulp.com|website=iranicaonline.org}}</ref> ({{reign | 1588 | 1629}}) paired with [[Bandar (port)|''bandar'']] – "port", meaning "Port of Abbas".
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