The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκάλλος“beauty, beautiful”
- Medieval Greek · derived fromΚαλλίπολις
- Ottoman Turkish · derived fromگلیبولی
- Turkish · borrowed fromGelibolu
- English todayGelibolu
From Turkish Gelibolu, from Ottoman Turkish گلیبولی (Gelibolu), from Medieval 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.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκάλλος all →
calistheniccalli-callipygous
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.