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.

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.

• (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, 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)

• 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)