edirne
/ɛˈdiɹnɛ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.75 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A province in eastern Thrace, in northwestern Turkey.
name
A municipality, the capital of Edirne district and Edirne Province, Turkey.
Etymology
From Turkish Edirne and Ottoman Turkish ادرنه (Edirne), from Byzantine Greek Ἁδριανούπολις (Hadrianoúpolis), from Ancient Greek Ἁδριανός (Hadrianós, “Hadrian”) + πόλις (pólis, “city, city-state”). Doublet of Adrianople and Adrianopolis.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Edirne, ادرنه, Ἁδριανούπολις, Ἁδριανός