Malatya

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A province and metropolitan municipality in the Eastern Anatolia region, Turkey.
  2. A city, the capital of Malatya Province, Turkey, formerly Armenian.

Word forms

Malatya

Etymology

From Turkish Malatya and Ottoman Turkish ملاطیه (Malatya), from Byzantine Greek Μελιτηνή (Melitēnḗ), from Ancient Greek. Doublet of Melitene.

Synonyms

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