أدرنة

Arabic

Etymology

From Turkish Edirne and Ottoman Turkish ادرنه (Edirne), from Byzantine Greek Ἁδριανούπολις (Hadrianoúpolis), from Ancient Greek Ἁδριανός (Hadrianós, “Hadrian”) + πόλις (pólis, “city, city-state”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔa.dir.na/

Proper noun

أَدِرْنَة • (ʔadirna) f

1. Adrianople (a city)

References

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “أدرنة”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN