Editing Seville (section)

==Name==
===Etymology and derivatives===
According to Manuel Pellicer Catalán, the name "Sevilla" derives from the ancient name ''Spal'', meaning "lowland" in the [[Phoenician language]] ([[cognate]] to the Hebrew ''[[Shfela]]'' שְּׁפֵלָה and the Arabic ''Asfal'' {{lang|ar|أسفل}}).<ref name="SPAL: Revista de prehistoria y arqueología de la Universidad de Sevilla">{{cite book|title=SPAL: Revista de prehistoria y arqueología de la Universidad de Sevilla|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rFhpAAAAMAAJ|access-date=8 February 2013|year=1998|publisher=Secretariado de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Sevilla|page=93|quote=La presencia de fenicios en la antigua Sevilla parece constatada por el topónimo Spal que en diversas lenguas semíticas significa "zona baja", "llanura verde" o "valle profundo"}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/fichero_articulo?codigo=634185&orden=0|title= La Emergencia de Sevilla|publisher= Universidad de Sevilla |access-date=11 May 2011}}</ref> It is ultimately from Phoenician ''sefela'', meaning "plain, valley."<ref>{{OEtymD|Seville|accessdate=21 September 2024}}</ref> ''Hisbaal'' is another old name for Seville. It appears to have originated during the [[Phoenicia]]n colonisation of the [[Tartessos|Tartessian]] culture in south-western Iberia, and according to a new proposal, it refers to the god [[Baal]].<ref>{{cite book |url= http://rodin.uca.es/xmlui/handle/10498/15101 |title= De Coripe a Sevilla por Utrera: formación y deformación de topónimos en el habla |publisher= Diputación de Sevilla |access-date= 11 September 2018 |isbn= 978-84-940980-0-0 |date=2013 |archive-date= 24 February 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210224081740/https://rodin.uca.es/xmlui/handle/10498/15101 }}</ref>

During [[Hispania|Roman rule]], the name was Latinised as {{lang|la|Hispal}} and later as {{lang|la|Hispalis}}. After the [[Umayyad]] invasion, this name remained in use among the [[Mozarabs]],<ref name="Mena 1992"/> being adapted into Arabic as ''Išbīliya'' ({{lang|ar|إشبيلية}}): since the /p/ [[phoneme]] does not exist in Arabic, it was replaced by /b/; the Latin place-name suffix ''-is'' was Arabized as ''-iya'', and ''a'' {{IPA|/æ/}} turned into ''ī'' {{IPA|/iː/}} due to the phonetic phenomenon called ''[[imāla]]''.<ref>{{cite book|title=Biografías mudéjares, o, La experiencia de ser minoría: biografías islámicas en la España cristiana|year=2008|page=394|isbn=978-84-00-08744-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hxgsAQAAIAAJ|last1=Echevarria|first1=Ana|publisher=Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas }}</ref>

In the meantime, the city's official name had been changed to ''Ḥimṣ al-Andalus'' ({{lang|ar|حمص الأندلس}}), in reference to the city of [[Homs]] in modern Syria, [[Jund Hims|the jund of which]] Seville had been assigned to upon the Umayyad conquest;<ref>{{cite book|last=Gerber|first=Jane S.|year=1992|title=The Jews of Spain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ry5XyRIl6V4C|page=31|publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1-4391-0783-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=José María de Mena Plaza & Janés|year=1985|title=Historia de Sevilla|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J_kqAQAAMAAJ|page=47|publisher=Plaza & Janés |isbn=978-84-01-37200-1}}</ref><ref name="Mena 1992">{{cite book|title=Art and History of Seville|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p8SwKYtmy94C|page=6|author=José María de Mena|year=1992| publisher=Casa Editrice Bonechi |isbn = 978-88-7009-851-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Calvert|title=Southern Spain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iCdwDwAAQBAJ|year=2018|page=17|publisher=BoD – Books on Demand |isbn=978-3-7340-3692-7}}</ref> "Ḥimṣ al-Andalus" remained a customary and affectionate name for the city during the whole period throughout the Muslim Arab world,<ref name="Mena 1992"/><ref>{{cite book|title=Vinieron los Sarracenos...: el universo mental de la conquista de América|last=Manrique|first=Nelson|year=1993|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ig1pAAAAMAAJ|page=178|publisher=DESCO |isbn=978-84-89312-04-3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Islamic And Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages|first=Thomas F.|last=Glick|year=2005|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cWqmebvcjj0C|page=48|publisher=BRILL |isbn=90-04-14771-3}}</ref> being referred to for example in the encyclopedia of [[Yaqut al-Hamawi]]<ref>{{cite book|title=Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages|page=323|first=Thomas F.|last=Glick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wAoWAQAAMAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-7837-0098-4}}</ref> or in [[Abu al-Baqa ar-Rundi]]'s ''[[Ritha' al-Andalus]]''.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Jalel|last=El Gharbi|title=Thrène de Séville|journal=Cahiers de la Méditerranée|issue=79|year=2009|pages=26–30|doi=10.4000/cdlm.4901|url=https://journals.openedition.org/cdlm/4901|language=fr|doi-access=free}}</ref>

The city is sometimes referred to as the "Pearl of Andalusia".

The inhabitants of the city are known as {{lang|es|sevillanos}} (feminine form: {{lang|es|sevillanas}}) or {{lang|es|hispalenses}}, after the Roman name of the city.

===Motto===
''NO8DO'' is the official motto of Seville, popularly believed to be a [[rebus]] signifying the Spanish {{lang|es|No me ha dejado}}, meaning "She [Seville] has not abandoned me". The phrase, pronounced with [[synalepha]] as {{IPA|es|no ma ðeˈxaðo|}} no-madeja-do, is written with an eight in the middle representing the word {{lang|es|madeja}} {{IPA|es|maˈðexa|}} "skein [of wool]". Legend states that the title was given by King [[Alfonso X of Castile|Alfonso X]], who was resident in the city's [[Alcázar of Seville|Alcázar]] and supported by the citizens when his son, later [[Sancho IV of Castile]], tried to usurp the throne from him.

The emblem is present on Seville's municipal flag, and features on city property such as manhole covers, and [[Christopher Columbus]]'s tomb in the cathedral.