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Tripolitanian

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English

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Etymology

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From Tripolitania +‎ -an.

Adjective

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Tripolitanian (not comparable)

  1. Of, or relating to, Tripolitania.
    • 1955 December, P. M. Kalla-Bishop, “Letters to the Editor: Italian-Built Garratts in Africa”, in Railway Magazine, page 873:
      Two of the locomotives remaining in Italy were sent across the Mediterranean to Tripoli, at the time a base for Rommel's armies in North Africa, although they could not run on the 3 ft. 1½ in.-gauge Tripolitanian railways.

Noun

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Tripolitanian (plural Tripolitanians)

  1. An inhabitant or native of Tripolitania.