Editing Casablanca (section)

=== Anfa ===
Before the 15th century, the settlement at what is now Casablanca had been called ''Anfa'', rendered in European sources variously as El-Anfa, Anafa or Anaffa, Anafe, Anife, Anafee, Nafe, and Nafee.<ref name=":6">{{Cite book |last=André |first=Adam |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/479295174 |title=Histoire de Casablanca '(des origines à 1914) '. |date=1969 |publisher=Ophrys |pages=14–17 |oclc=479295174 |access-date=2021-04-02 |archive-date=2021-03-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210316193332/https://www.worldcat.org/title/histoire-de-casablanca-des-origines-a-1914/oclc/479295174 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Ibn Khaldun]] ascribed the name to the ''Anfaça'', a branch of the {{Interlanguage link|Auréba|ar|أوربة}} tribe of the [[Maghreb]], though the sociologist [[André Adam (academic)|André Adam]] refuted this claim due to the absence of the third syllable.<ref name=":6" /> [[Nahum Slouschz]] gave a [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] etymology, citing the ''Lexicon'' of [[Wilhelm Gesenius|Gesenius]]: ''anâphâh'' (a type of bird) or ''anaph'' (face, figure), though Adam refuted this arguing that even a [[Berber Jews|Judaized population]] would still have spoken [[Berber languages|Tamazight]].<ref name=":6" /> Adam also refuted an [[Arabic]] etymology, {{Lang|ar|أنف}} (''anf'', "nose"), as the city predated the linguistic [[Arabization]] of the country, and the term ''anf'' was not used to describe geographic areas.<ref name=":6" /> Adam affirmed a Tamazight etymology—from ''anfa'' "hill", ''anfa'' "promontory on the sea", ''ifni'' "sandy beach", or ''anfa'' "threshing floor"—although he determined the available information insufficient to establish exactly which.<ref name=":6" />

The name "Anfa" was used in maps until around 1830—in some until 1851—which Adam attributes to the tendency of cartographers to replicate previous maps.<ref name=":7">{{Cite book|last=André.|first=Adam|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/479295174|title=Histoire de Casablanca '(des origines à 1914) '.|date=1969|publisher=Ophrys|pages=67–68|oclc=479295174|access-date=2021-04-02|archive-date=2021-03-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210316193332/https://www.worldcat.org/title/histoire-de-casablanca-des-origines-a-1914/oclc/479295174|url-status=live}}</ref>