نیكبولی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Bulgarian Никопол (Nikopol).

Proper noun

نیگبولی • (Niğbolu)

1. Nikopol (a city in Bulgaria)

Descendants

• Turkish: Niğbolu

Further reading

• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Nicopolis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[1], Vienna, column 1136
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Nikopol”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)

Etymology 2

From Byzantine Greek Νικόπολις (Nikópolis, “Nicopolis”), from Ancient Greek νῑ́κη (nī́kē, “victory”) + πόλις (pólis, “city, city-state”) named for the Battle of Actium nearby.

Proper noun

نیگبولی • (Niğbolu)

1. (historical) Nicopolis (an ancient city in Greece)

   Synonym: (modern city) پره‌وزه (preveze)

Descendants

• Turkish: Niğbolu

References

• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Niğbolu”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[2], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 579