English Explanatory Dictionary

Gallipoli

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A peninsula in Turkey, north of the Dardanelles, between the Aegean and Marmara seas.
  2. The Gallipoli Campaign (1915–1916) in World War I.
  3. Synonym of Gelibolu: a town and municipality of Turkey, located on the Gallipoli peninsula (sense 1).
  4. A town in Lecce, Apulia, Italy.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

Gallipoli

Etymology

Sense 1 (“peninsula in Turkey”) is borrowed from Italian Gallipoli, from Turkish Gelibolu, and from its etymon Byzantine Greek Καλλίπολῐς (Kallípolĭs, “Kallipolis, former name of Gelibolu”) and late variant forms, from Ancient Greek κᾰ́λλος (kắllos, “beauty; beautiful person or thing; nobility”) (of unknown origin, disputedly from Proto-Indo-European *kal- (“beautiful”)) + πόλις (pólis, “city; city-state”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tpelH- (“city; fortification”)). Doublet of Callipolis, Gelibolu, and Kallipolis. Sense 2 (“town in Italy”) is borrowed from Italian Gallipoli, from Latin Callipolis, from Byzantine Greek Καλλίπολῐς (Kallípolĭs): see above.

Synonyms

Chersonese Chersonesus Thracica Thracian Chersonese Gelibolu

Derived words

Gallipolian Gallipoli Day Gallipoli gallop

Translations

Arabic: جاليبولي Armenian: Գալիպոլի Azerbaijani: Gelibolu Basque: Gallipoli Belarusian: Галі́палі Bengali: গ্যালিপলি Breton: Gallipoli Bulgarian: Галипо́ли Catalan: Gal·lípoli Cebuano: Gallipoli Chinese Mandarin: 加里波利 Czech: Gallipoli Danish: Gallipoli Dutch: Gallipoli Esperanto: Kalipolis Estonian: Gelibolu Finnish: Gallipoli French: Gallipoli West-Frisian: Gallipoli Georgian: გალიპოლი German: Gallipoli German: Gelibolu Greek: Καλλίπολη Hebrew: גליפולי Hungarian: Gallipoli Indonesian: Gallipoli Italian: Gallipoli Japanese: ガッリーポリ Kannada: ಗಲಿಪೊಲಿ Korean: 갈리폴리 Luxembourgish: Gallipoli Macedonian: Галиполе Malay: Gallipoli Māori: Karipori Norwegian Bokmål: Gallipoli Norwegian Nynorsk: Gallipoli Occitan: Gallipoli Persian: گالیپولی Polish: Gallipoli Portuguese: Gallipoli Portuguese: Galípoli Punjabi: گیلی پولی
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