Gelibolu

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A city on the Gallipoli Pensinsula in Turkey.

Word forms

Gelibolu

Etymology

From Turkish Gelibolu, from Ottoman Turkish گلیبولی (Gelibolu), from Byzantine Greek Καλλίπολις (Kallípolis), from the combining form of Ancient Greek κάλλος (kállos, “beauty, beautiful”) + πόλις (pólis, “city, city-state”). Doublet of Callipolis, Kallipolis, and Gallipoli.

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