Tripoli

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”.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪpəli/

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

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 unincorporated community in Wisconsin, United States.

• Tripolitan
• Tripolitania

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

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

Tripoli f

1. Tripoli (the capital city of Libya)

• poltrii

Tripolī

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