Tripoli

See also: tripoli and Trípoli

English

Alternative forms

• Tripoly, Tripolis (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪpəli/

• Audio (Southern England):

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

Etymology 1

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

Tripoli

1. A city in the Peloponnese region, Greece, also known as Tripolis.
3. The capital city of Libya, originally three separate settlements known as Oea, Sabratha, and Leptis Magna.
4. A city in Lebanon, originally jointly administered by the three cities of Tyre, Sidon, and Aradus.
5. A city in Bremer County, Iowa, United States.
6. An unincorporated community in Lincoln County and Oneida County, Wisconsin, United States.

Synonyms

• (Libyan capital): Oea (historical)

Related terms

• Tripolitan
• Tripolitania

 

Translations

capital of Libya

• Afrikaans: Tripoli
• Albanian: Tripoli
• Amharic: ትሪፖሊ (təripoli)
• Arabic: طَرَابُلُس (ar) f (ṭarābulus), طَرَابُلُس الغَرْب f (ṭarābulus al-ḡarb)

  Libyan Arabic: طرابلس (Ṭrābləs)

• Armenian: Տրիպոլի (Tripoli)
• Belarusian: Тры́палі m (Trýpali)
• Bengali: তারাবুলুস (bn) (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) n
• 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 (Tripoli)
• 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 (ar) f (ṭarābulus), طَرَابُلُس الشَّام (ar) 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

Etymology 2

From modern Greek Τρίπολη (Trípoli) used from the 19th century in place of Byzantine Greek Τριπολιτσά (Tripolitsá), probably from Slavic Droboliza.

Proper noun

Tripoli

1. A city in Greece.

Translations

city in Greece

• Arabic: تريبولي f
• Greek: Τρίπολη (el) (Trípoli)
• Italian: Tripoli f
• Latin: Tripolis
• Ottoman Turkish: تریبولیچه (Tripoliçe)

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Tripoli

1. Tripoli (the capital city of Libya)

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

Latin

Proper noun

Tripolī

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