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Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /ˈtɹɪpəli/
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- (Tripoli, Iowa) IPA(key): /tɹɪˈpoʊlə/
Etymology 1
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From Italian Tripoli, from Latin Tripolis, from Ancient Greek Τρίπολις (Trípolis), from τρι- (tri-, “three”) + πολις (polis, “city, city-state”). In reference to American cities, after US actions off Tripoli in Libya during the First Barbary War. Doublet of Tripolis and Tirebolu.
Proper noun
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Tripoli
- The capital city of Libya, originally three separate settlements known as Oea, Sabratha, and Leptis Magna.
- A city in Lebanon, originally jointly administered by the three cities of Tyre, Sidon, and Aradus.
- A city in Iowa, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Wisconsin, United States.
Synonyms
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- (Libyan capital): Oea (historical)
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Translations
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capital of Libya
- Afrikaans: Tripoli
- Albanian: Tripoli
- Amharic: ትሪፖሊ (təripoli)
- Arabic: طَرَابُلُس f (ṭarābulus), طَرَابُلُس الغَرْب f (ṭarābulus al-ḡarb)
- Libyan Arabic: طرابلس (Ṭrābləs)
- Armenian: Տրիպոլի (Tripoli)
- Belarusian: Тры́палі m (Trýpali)
- Bengali: তারাবুলুস (tarabulus)
- Bulgarian: Три́поли n (Trípoli)
- Burmese: ထရီပိုလီမြို့ (hta.ripuilimrui.)
- Catalan: Trípoli
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 的黎波里 (dik1 lai4 bo1 lei5)
- Mandarin: 的黎波里 (zh) (Dīlíbōlǐ)
- Corsican: Tripuli f, Tripoli f
- Czech: Tripolis (cs) m
- Danish: Tripoli n
- Dutch: Tripoli (nl) n
- Esperanto: Tripolo (eo)
- Estonian: Tripoli (et)
- Extremaduran: Trípoli
- Faroese: Tripolis
- Finnish: Tripoli (fi)
- French: Tripoli (fr)
- Galician: Trípoli (gl)
- Georgian: ტრიპოლი (ka) (ṭriṗoli)
- German: Tripolis (de) n
- Greek: Τρίπολη (el) f (Trípoli)
- Hausa: Tarabulus
- Hebrew: טְרִיפּוֹלִי f (tripoli)
- Hindi: त्रिपोली (tripolī), ताराबूलस m (tārābūlas), तराबुलुस m (tarābulus)
- Hungarian: Tripoli (hu)
- Icelandic: Trípólí
- Indonesian: Tripoli
- Irish: Tripilí m
- Italian: Tripoli f
- Japanese: トリポリ (ja) (Toripori)
- Kazakh: Триполи (Tripoli)
- Khmer: ត្រីបុរី (km) (triiporii), ទ្រីប៉ូលី (triipoulii)
- Korean: 트리폴리 (Teuripolli)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: تەرابلوس (terablus)
- Northern Kurdish: Trablûs
- Kyrgyz: Триполи (Tripoli)
- Latin: Tripolis f, Oea f
- Latvian: Tripole f
- Lithuanian: Tripolis m
- Lombard: Tripul
- Luxembourgish: Tripolis
- Macedonian: Триполи m (Tripoli)
- Malay: Tripoli
- Malayalam: ട്രിപ്പോളി (ṭrippōḷi)
- Marathi: त्रिपोली (tripolī)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: Триполи (Tripoli)
- Navajo: Twípoli
- North Frisian: Tripolis
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: Tripoli
- Nynorsk: Tripoli
- Occitan: Trípol (oc)
- Ottoman Turkish: طرابلس غرب (Tarâbülüs-i Garb)
- Pashto: طرابلس m (Tarābulús), تريپولي f (Tripolí)
- Persian: طرابلس (Tarâbolos)
- Piedmontese: Trìpoli
- Polish: Trypolis (pl) m
- Portuguese: Trípoli (pt)
- Romanian: Tripoli (ro) m
- Russian: Три́поли (ru) m (Trípoli)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Триполи m
- Roman: Tripoli m
- Sicilian: Trìpuli
- Slovak: Tripolis m
- Slovene: Tripoli m
- Somali: Triboli
- Spanish: Trípoli (es)
- Swedish: Tripoli (sv) c
- Tagalog: Tripoli
- Tajik: Таробулус (Tarobulus), Триполӣ (Tripolī)
- Tamil: திரிப்பொலி (tirippoli)
- Tatar: Триполи (Tripoli)
- Thai: ตริโปลี (dtrì-bpoo-lii)
- Tibetan: ཐི་རི་ཕོ་ལི (thi ri pho li)
- Turkish: Trablus (tr), Trablusgarp (tr)
- Turkmen: Tripoli
- Ukrainian: Трі́полі m (Trípoli)
- Urdu: طرابلس m (tarābulus)
- Uyghur: ترىپولى (tripoli), تىرىپولى (tiripoli)
- Uzbek: Tarobulus, Tripoli
- Vietnamese: Tơ-ri-pô-li
- West Frisian: Tripoly
- Yiddish: טריפּאָלי n (tripoli)
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Etymology 2
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From modern Greek Τρίπολη (Trípoli) used from the 19th century in place of Byzantine Greek Τριπολιτσά (Tripolitsá), probably from Slavic Droboliza.
Proper noun
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Tripoli
- A city in Greece.
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