Tripoli

• Tripoly, Tripolis (obsolete)

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

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

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.

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.

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.

• (Libyan capital): Oea (historical)

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

Tripoli

1. A city in Greece.

Tripoli

1. Tripoli (the capital city of Libya)

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

Borrowed from Spanish Trípoli.

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

Trípolí (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜇᜒᜉᜓᜎᜒ)

1. Tripoli (the capital city of Libya)