نیكبولی
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Bulgarian Никопол (Nikopol).
Proper noun
نیگبولی • (Niğbolu)
Descendants
- Turkish: Niğbolu
Further reading
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Nicopolis”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[1], Vienna, column 1136
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Nikopol”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
Etymology 2
From Byzantine Greek Νικόπολις (Nikópolis, “Nicopolis”), from Ancient Greek νῑ́κη (nī́kē, “victory”) + πόλις (pólis, “city, city-state”) named for the Battle of Actium nearby.
Proper noun
نیگبولی • (Niğbolu)
Descendants
- Turkish: Niğbolu