Istanbul
English dictionary entry
Meanings
name
- A Turkish city, and the largest European city by population, which was the last capital of the Ottoman Empire and the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire).
- A province in Turkey.
name
- Rare spelling of Istanbul.
Pronunciation
/ɪ.stænˈbʊl/
[ˌɪ.stæmˈbʊɫ]
LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Istanbul.wav
/ˈɪ.stɑːn.bʊl/
[ˈɪ.stɑːmˌbʊɫ]
LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Istanbul.wav
/ɪsˈtɑːn.bʊl/
[ɪsˈt̪äːm.bʊl]
Word forms
Istanbul
Stambul
Stamboul
Etymology
From Turkish İstanbul, from Ottoman Turkish استانبول (İstanbul), a corruption of Byzantine Greek εἰς τὴν Πόλιν (eis tḕn Pólin, “to the City”), which is how Constantinople was referred to by the local Greeks.
Translations
Abkhaz: Сҭампыл
Abkhaz: Асҭампыл
Acehnese: Éseutamu
Afrikaans: Istanboel
Afrikaans: Istanbul
Albanian: Stamboll
Amharic: ኢስታንቡል
Arabic: إِسْطَنْبُول
Arabic: إِسْتَنْبُول
Arabic: إستانبول
Arabic: استانبول
Arabic: إسطنبول
Aramaic: ܐܝܣܛܢܒܘܠ
Armenian: Ստամբուլ
Armenian: Պոլիս
Avar: Истамбул
Avar: Стамбул
Azerbaijani: İstanbul
Azerbaijani: ایستانبول
Azerbaijani: Истанбул
Basque: Istanbul
Belarusian: Стамбу́л
Bengali: ইস্তাম্বুল
Bulgarian: Истанбу́л
Bulgarian: Царигра́д
Bulgarian: Константино́пол
Carpathian Rusyn: Істанбу́л
Catalan: Istanbul
Chechen: Истмала
Chinese Mandarin: 伊斯坦布爾 /伊斯坦布尔
Chinese Mandarin: 伊斯坦堡
Chuvash: Стамбул
Corsican: Istanbul
Crimean Tatar: İstanbul
Czech: Istanbul
Czech: Cařihrad
Danish: Istanbul
Dutch: Istanboel
Esperanto: Istanbulo
Estonian: Istanbul
Extremaduran: Estambul
Faroese: Istanbul
Faroese: Miklagarður
Finnish: Istanbul
Finnish: Konstantinopoli
French: Istanbul
West-Frisian: Istanbûl
Gagauz: İstanbul
Galician: Istambul
Georgian: სტამბოლი
German: Istanbul
Bavarian German: Istanbul
Greek: Κωνσταντινούπολη
Greek: Πόλη
Ancient Greek: Κωνσταντινούπολις
Gujarati: ઇસ્તંબૂલ
Hausa: Santambul
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