Tarabulus Ash-Sham
- proper noun
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Trípoli
- In Arabic, Tripoli is known as Tarabulus Ash-Sham, distinguishing it from the Libyan city with the same name.
Examples
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The port of Tarabulus Ash-Sham plays a vital role in Lebanon's economy.
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Many visitors travel to Tarabulus Ash-Sham to explore its historic souks and ancient mosques.
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I visited Tarabulus Ash-Sham last summer.
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Have you ever been to Tarabulus Ash-Sham?
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In Arabic, Tripoli is known as Tarabulus Ash-Sham, distinguishing it from the Libyan city with the same name.
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Many visitors travel to Tarabulus Ash-Sham to explore its historic souks and ancient mosques.
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The port of Tarabulus Ash-Sham plays a vital role in Lebanon's economy.
Synonyms
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A port city in northwestern Lebanon on the Mediterranean coast
A large port city in northwest Lebanon on the Mediterranean coast
The Arabic name for Tripoli, a port city in northwest Lebanon by the Mediterranean Sea
Surface Forms
Morphology
Tarabulus + Ash-Sham
The name transparently combines Tarabulus (Tripoli) with Ash-Sham (a regional epithet meaning the Levant/Greater Syria), so the overall meaning 'Tripoli in the Levant/Tripoli, Lebanon' is directly derivable from its parts. This place-name compositional pattern (city name + regional qualifier) is cross-linguistically common, so a learner who knows both constituents would understand the MWE.
Etymology
Tarabulus Ash-Sham comes from two old words: Tarabulus, from Greek for 'three cities', and Ash-Sham, Arabic for 'the north'. So it literally means 'Tripoli of the north' and is used to name the Lebanese port and to tell it apart from the Tripoli in Libya.