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Angora
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English
Etymology 1
Noun
Angora (plural Angoras)
- Alternative letter-case form of angora.
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Angora
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish, from Latin Ancyra, from Ancient Greek Ἄγκυρα (Ánkura), from ἄγκυρα (ánkura, “anchor”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Angora m or f (mostly f)
- (obsolete) Ankara (the capital city of Turkey)
- Synonym: Ankara
- 1924, Berthe Georges-Gaulis, La nouvelle Turquie:
- « Angora est nationaliste, en ce sens qu’elle renonce aux prétensions de l’ancien Empire ottoman et qu’elle veut recréer un foyer turc modeste […] »
- “Ankara is nationalist, in the sense that it renounces the pretensions of the old Ottoman Empire and wants to recreate a modest Turkish centre […] ”
- 1931, Eugène Pittard, Le visage nouveau de la Turquie: à travers l'Asie-Mineure:
- Il y a, dans le vieil Angora, pour celui qui a conservé le goût du passé, pour celui qui veut voir l’image des superpositions de civilisations dans un même lieu, des habitudes séculaires, différentes les unes des autres […]
- There is, in the old Ankara, for the one who has preserved a taste for the past, for the one who wants to see an image of many civilizations superimposed in the same place, secular habits, different one from another […]
- 1931, Eugène Pittard, Le visage nouveau de la Turquie: à travers l'Asie-Mineure:
- L’offensive est arrêtée. Angora est sauvée. La Turquie patriote, qui a conservé sa foi, a vaincu.
- The offensive has been stopped. Ankara is saved. Patriotic Turkey, who has kept the faith, has triumphed.
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Italian
Proper noun
Angora f
Anagrams
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Angora f
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin Ancyra, from Ancient Greek Ἄγκυρα (Ánkura), from ἄγκυρα (ánkura, “anchor”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Angora f
- Ankara (the capital city of Turkey)
- Synonym: Ankara
Derived terms
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