Etymology

Izmir

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Today it means: A province and metropolitan municipality in western Anatolia in Turkey, along the Mediterranean coast. Full definition →

Turkish İzmir ← Ottoman Turkish ازمیر
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The story

  1. Ottoman Turkish · derived fromازمیر
  2. Turkish · borrowed fromİzmir
  3. English todayIzmir

From Turkish İzmir, from Ottoman Turkish ازمیر (İzmir). Doublet of Smyrna.

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.