remained in use among the Mozarabs, being adapted into Arabic as Isbiliya ???????: 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 turned into i due to the phonetic phenomenon called imala.

In the meantime, the city's official name had been changed to Hims al-Andalus ??? ???????, in reference to the city of Homs