Alabama-choctaw indian-vegetable gatherers
Alaska-Aleut-Great land which the sea breaks againts
Arizona-O'odham-Little spring
Boca raton-mouth of the rat
Chicago-algonqian-garlic field
Johor-origiginated from the Arabic word Jauhar-gem;precious stone; Darul Ta'zim-Arabic-Abode of Dignity
Kentucky-iroquoian-from the word kentahten means land of tomorrow
Kota kinabalu-malay-city of the chinese widow "from the legend of Chinese trader and a widow"
Muar-Malay- estuary
Tioman-malay residents-tio comes from tiong a black little bird;and man from the residents
people means I,mine or my.
Langkawi-malay-lang comes the the word helang means eagle and kawi in malay is the name of a crimson red manganese stone used as a chalk to mark goods. Hence Langkawi denotes Reddish Brown Eagle. and the impressive statue of the eagle statue located in dataran helang(eagle square). but in sanskrit kawi comes from the word kavi means poet.
Zamboanga-malay;tausug-from the word jambangan.and is titled as city of flower.and is also titled as Latin city because the language spoken is broken spanish by the residents.
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