köken: Ultimately from Spanish La Habana, in turn from Taíno Habaguanex. Japanese sources list the term as a borrowing of Havana, but do not indicate the source language. The term is first cited to the early 1890s. This would suggest that the term was borrowed from English Havana, since the ⟨ h ⟩ in Spanish has been silent for centuries. Considering that the pitch accent is on the first mora, the…
Havana (the capital city of Cuba). · Havana (a city, the county seat of Mason County, Illinois, United States). · Havana (a minor city in Montgomery County, Kansas, United States).