English Explanatory Dictionary

Kyustendil

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A town, the capital of Kyustendil Province and administrative center of Kyustendil Municipality, Bulgaria.
  2. A municipality of Kyustendil Province, Bulgaria.
  3. A province of western Bulgaria.

Word forms

Kyustendil Kjustendil

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin Cōnstāns /Cōnstantius Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnus Latin Cōnstantīnusder. Ottoman Turkish كوستن (kösten) Ottoman Turkish ایل (il) Ottoman Turkish كوستندیل (köstendil)bor. Bulgarian Кюстенди́л (Kjustendíl)translit. English Kyustendil Transliteration of Bulgarian Кюстенди́л (Kjustendíl), borrowed from Ottoman Turkish كوستندیل (köstendil). From كوستن (kösten), the Turkified name of Konstantin Dragaš (a 14th-century Serbian magnate), and ایل (il, “county”). Literally, “Constantine's county”.

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