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. The capital city of Libya, originally three separate settlements known as Oea, Sabratha, and Leptis Magna.
2. A city in Lebanon, originally jointly administered by the three cities of Tyre, Sidon, and Aradus.
3. A city in Iowa, United States.
4. An unincorporated community in 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 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) 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 (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

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: تريبوليچه (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