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==Etymologies==
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The name Simferopol ({{langx|uk|Сімферо́поль}} {{IPA|uk|sʲimfeˈrɔpɔlʲ||audio=Uk-Сімферополь.ogg}}; {{langx|ru|link=no|Симферо́поль}} {{IPA|ru|sʲɪmfʲɪˈropəlʲ|}}) comes from the Greek ''Sympheropoli'' ({{langx|el|Συμφερόπολη|Symferópoli|city of common good}}. The spelling '''Symferopil''' ({{langx|uk|Симферопіль}}) is also used.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://uinp.gov.ua/istorychnyy-kalendar/kviten/22/1918-zvilnennya-krymu-vid-bilshovykiv|title=Map from 1918 showing the name "Symferopil"|website=uinp.gov.ua|access-date=13 October 2023}}</ref>

In [[Crimean Tatar language|Crimean Tatar]], the name of the city is ''Aqmescit'' (or in Cyrillic, {{crh||Акъмесджит|lit=The white mosque|lead=no}}, from ''Aq'' "white", and ''mescit'' "mosque"). But ''aq'' does not refer to the colour of the mosque, but rather to its location in cosmology. The Turkic peoples give a colour designation to the [[cardinal points]], and white is the west. Thus, the exact translation of the name of the town is "the Western Mosque."

In English, the name was often given as Akmechet or Ak-Mechet (e.g. in the 1911 ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'').<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Simferopol |volume= 25 | page = 122;see para 2 |quote= Afterwards the Tatar settlement of Ak-mechet..... |short= 1}}</ref> This was a transliteration from the Russian spelling of Crimean Tatar word Акмечет, Ак-Мечеть, where Mechet (Мечеть) is the Russian word for "mosque".