Sorte de terre d’un jaune rougeâtre et d’un grain très fin, composée presque entièrement de silice, dont on se servait pour polir les glaces, les métaux.
Tripoli (the capital city of Libya, originally three separate settlements known as Oea, Sabratha, and Leptis Magna) · Tripoli (a city in Lebanon, originally jointly administered by the three cities of Tyre, Sidon, and Aradus)
köken: Borrowed from Latin Tripolis, from Ancient Greek Τρίπολις (Trípolis).
Tripoli (a town in Greece), capital of Arcadia · Tripoli (the capital city of Libya) · Tripoli (a city in Lebanon)
eş: Τριπολιτσά
köken: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Τρίπολις (Trípolis), literally, "the three cities", as in Achaea. Official name of the town in Arcadia, Greece since 19th century, replacing the mediaeval Τριπολιτσά (Tripolitsá) of different etymon.
aile: Τριπολίτης m & see Τριπολιτσιώτης, Τριπολίτισσα, τριπολίτικος
Tripoli (the capital city of Libya, originally three separate settlements known as Oea, Sabratha, and Leptis Magna) · Tripoli (a city in Lebanon, originally jointly administered by the three cities of Tyre, Sidon, and Aradus) · Tripoli (a city in Peloponnese, Greece)
köken: From Ancient Greek Οἴα (Oía), the name of a city at the time of its capture by the Greek rulers of Cyrenaica, later hypothesized to be the same city as Oea, which the Greeks called Ἐώα (Eṓa), the name Οἴα (Oía) recorded as being from Punic 𐤅𐤉𐤏𐤕 (wyʿt), apparently from an unknown name of an existing Berber village, the site of which Οἴα was built on.