The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromΣμύρνα
- English todaySmyrna
From Ancient Greek Σμύρνα (Smúrna), a variant spelling of Σμύρνη (Smúrnē), the Ionic Greek form of the original Aeolic Greek name Μύρρᾱ (Múrrhā, “Smyrna”). Doublet of Izmir.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.