Tripoli

See also: tripoli and Trípoli

English

Alternative forms

• Tripoly, Tripolis (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪpəli/, /ˈtɹɪpl̩i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪpəli/

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  • (Tripoli, Iowa) IPA^(key): /tɹɪˈpoʊlə/
• Rhymes: -ɪpəli
• Homophone: trippily

Etymology 1

Borrowed 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, Tirebolu, and Tripura.

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.
   • 2020 February 13, Roland Oliphant, “'I have lost four years of my life': the desperate migrants stuck in squalid Libyan camps”, in The Telegraph‎^[1], archived from the original on 8 July 2025:

     When he got to Zawiyah, the coastal town west of Tripoli that has become the main hub for the people-smuggling industry, he was kidnapped a second time and held in a tiny cell for six months.

5. A city in Lebanon, originally jointly administered by the three cities of Tyre, Sidon, and Aradus.
6. A city in Bremer County, Iowa, United States.
7. 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)
• Asturian: Trípoli (ast)
• Belarusian: Тры́палі m (Trýpali)
• Bengali: তারাবুলুস (bn) (tarabulus)
• Bulgarian: Три́поли n (Trípoli)
• Burmese: ထရီပိုလီမြို့ (hta.ripuilimrui.)
• Catalan: Trípoli
• Cherokee: ᏟᏉᎵ (tliquoli)
• 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)
• Frisian:

  North Frisian: Tripolis

  West Frisian: Tripoly

• 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)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Tripoli

  Nynorsk: Tripoli

• Occitan: Trípol (oc)
• Pashto: طرابلس m (Tarābulús), تريپولي f (Tripolí)
• Persian: طرابلس (Tarâbolos)

  Iranian Persian: طَرابُلُس (tarâbolos)

• Piedmontese: Trìpoli
• Polish: Trypolis (pl) m
• Portuguese: Trípoli (pt)
• Romanian: Tripoli (ro) n
• Russian: Три́поли (ru) m (Trípoli)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Триполи m

  Latin: 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)

  Ottoman Turkish: طرابلس غرب (Tarâbülüs-i Garb)

• Turkmen: Tripoli
• Ukrainian: Трі́полі m (Trípoli)
• Urdu: طرابلس m (tarābulus), طَرابُلُس m (tarābulus)
• Uyghur: ترىپولى (tripoli), تىرىپولى (tiripoli)
• Uzbek: Tarobulus, Tripoli
• Vietnamese: Tơ-ri-pô-li
• Yiddish: טריפּאָלי n (tripoli)

city in Lebanon

• Arabic: طَرَابُلُس (ar) f (ṭarābulus), طَرَابُلُس الشَّام (ar) f (ṭarābulus aš-šām)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 的黎波里 (zh)

• French: Tripoli (fr)

  Middle French: Triple f

• Italian: Tripoli f
• Latin: Tripolis f
• Pashto: طرابلس m (Tarābulús)
• Persian: طرابلس (Tarâbolos)
• Polish: Trypolis (pl) m
• Tajik: Таробулус (Tarobulus)
• Turkish: Trablusşam (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: طرابلس شام (Tarâbülüs-i Şâm)

• 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
• Polish: Tripoli (pl) n
• Turkish:

  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, originally three separate settlements known as Oea, Sabratha, and Leptis Magna)
2. Tripoli (a city in Lebanon, originally jointly administered by the three cities of Tyre, Sidon, and Aradus)

Anagrams

• poltrii

Latin

Proper noun

Tripolī

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

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Trípoli.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾipoli/ [ˌt̪ɾiː.poˈlɪ]
• Rhymes: -ipoli
• Syllabification: Tri‧po‧li

Proper noun

Trípolí (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜇᜒᜉᜓᜎᜒ)

1. Tripoli (the capital city of Libya)