Tripoli

Tripoli

See also: tripoli and Trípoli

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian Tripoli, from Latin Tripolis, from Ancient Greek Τρίπολις (Trípolis); the places of this name in the United States are named after the (then Tripolitanian, now Libyan) Tripoli named in the Marines’ Hymn: “From the Halls of Montezuma / To the shores of Tripoli”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪpəli/

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• (Tripoli, Iowa) IPA^(key): /tɹɪˈpoʊlə/

Proper noun

Tripoli

1. The capital city of Libya.
2. A city in Greece. Former name: Tripolis.
3. A city in Lebanon.
4. A city in Iowa, United States.
5. An unincorporatedcommunity in Wisconsin, United States.

Related terms

• Tripolitan
• Tripolitania

Translations

capital of Libya

Afrikaans: Tripoli Albanian: Tripoli Amharic: ትሪፖሊ (təripoli) Arabic: طَرَابُلُس‎ f (ṭarābulus), طَرَابُلُس الغَرْب‎ f (ṭarābulus al-ḡarb) Armenian: Տրիպոլի (Tripoli) Belarusian: Тры́палі m (Trýpali) Bengali: তারাবুলুস (tarabulus) Bulgarian: Три́поли n (Trípoli) Burmese: ထရီပိုလီမြို့ (hta.ripuili-mrui.) 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 (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)

city in Lebanon

Arabic: طَرَابُلُس‎ f (ṭarābulus), طَرَابُلُس الشَّام‎ f (ṭarābulus aš-šām) French: Tripoli (fr) Ottoman Turkish: طرابلس شام‎ (tarâbülüs-i şâm) Pashto: طرابلس‎ m (tarābulús) Persian: طرابلس‎ (tarâbolos) Tajik: Таробулус (Tarobulus) Turkish: Trablusşam (tr) Urdu: طرابلس‎ m (tarābulus) Uzbek: Tarobulus

city in Greece

Arabic: تريبولي‎ f Italian: Tripoli f

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Tripolis, from Ancient Greek Τρίπολις (Trípolis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtri.po.li/
• Rhymes: -ipoli
• Hyphenation: Trì‧po‧li

Proper noun

Tripoli f

1. Tripoli (the capital city of Libya)

Anagrams

• poltrii

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Latin

Proper noun

Tripolī

1. dative/ablative/vocative/locative singular of Tripolis