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proper noun

Angora

/ɑ̃.ɡɔ.ʁa/

proper noun/ɑ̃.ɡɔ.ʁa/

Angora is masculine or feminine depending on context in French.

Ankara (the capital city of Turkey)

“« 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 […] ”

Synonyms: Ankara

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish, from Latin Ancyra, from Ancient Greek Ἄγκυρα (Ánkura), from ἄγκυρα (ánkura, “anchor”).