Islamabad

See also: Islámábád and Îslamabad

English

Etymology

From Urdu اسلام آباد (Islām ābād), from اسلام (“Islam”) + آباد (ābād, “inhabited place”). Romanized form Islam +‎ -abad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪzˈlɑːməˌbɑːd/, /ɪsˈlɑːməˌbɑːd/, /ɪzˈlæməˌbæd/

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Proper noun

Islamabad

1. The capital city of Pakistan, located within the Islamabad Capital Territory.
2. Islamabad (the former name of Chittagong, a city in Bangladesh)

Translations

the capital of Pakistan

• Albanian: Islamabadi m, Islamabad m (indefinite)
• Amharic: ኢስላማባድ (ʾislamabad)
• Arabic: إِسْلَام آباد f (ʔislām ʔābād), إِسْلَام أَبَاد f (ʔislām ʔabād)
• Armenian: Իսլամաբադ (hy) (Islamabad)
• Assamese: ইছলামাবাদ (islamabad)
• Azerbaijani: İslamabad
• Belarusian: Ісламаба́д m (Islamabád)
• Bengali: ইসলামাবাদ (islamabad)
• Bulgarian: Исламаба́д m (Islamabád)
• Burmese: အစ္စလာမာဘတ်မြို့ (acca.lamabhatmrui.)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 伊斯蘭堡／伊斯兰堡 (ji¹ si¹ laan⁴ bou²)

  Mandarin: 伊斯蘭堡／伊斯兰堡 (zh) (Yīsīlánbǎo)

• Czech: Islámábád (cs) m
• Danish: Islamabad n
• Dhivehi: އިސްލާމްއާބާދު (islām̊ābādu)
• Dutch: Islamabad (nl) n
• Esperanto: Islamabado (eo)
• Estonian: Islamabad (et)
• Finnish: Islamabad (fi)
• French: Islamabad (fr)
• Georgian: ისლამაბადი (ka) (islamabadi)
• German: Islamabad (de) n
• Greek: Ισλαμαμπάντ (el) m (Islamampánt)
• Gujarati: ઇસ્લામાબાદ (islāmābād)
• Hebrew: אסלאמאבאד f (islamabád)
• Hindi: इस्लामाबाद m (islāmābād)
• Hungarian: Iszlámábád (hu)
• Icelandic: Islamabad n
• Indonesian: Islamabad
• Irish: Islamabad
• Japanese: イスラマバード (ja) (Isuramabādo)
• Kannada: ಇಸ್ಲಾಮಾಬಾದ್ (islāmābād)
• Kashmiri: اِسلام آبادٖ
• Kazakh: Исламабад (İslamabad)
• Khmer: ឥស្លាម៉ាបាដ (km) (ʼihslaamaabaat)
• Korean: 이슬라마바드 (ko) (Iseullamabadeu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Îslamabad

• Kyrgyz: Исламабад (İslamabad)
• Lao: ອິດສະລາມາບັດ (ʼit sa lā mā bat)
• Latvian: Islāmābāda f
• Lithuanian: Islamabadas m
• Macedonian: Исламабад m (Islamabad)
• Malay: Islamabad
• Malayalam: ഇസ്ലാമബാദ് (islāmabādŭ)
• Marathi: इस्लामाबाद n (islāmābād)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Исламабад (Islamabad)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Islamabad (no) n

  Nynorsk: Islamabad n

• Odia: ଇସଲାମାବାଦ (isôlamabadô)
• Pashto: اسلام آباد m (eslām ābād)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: اِسْلام‌آباد (eslâm-âbâd)

• Polish: Islamabad (pl) m
• Portuguese: Islamabad (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਇਸਲਾਮਾਬਾਦ (isalāmābād)
• Romanian: Islamabad (ro)
• Russian: Исламаба́д (ru) m (Islamabád)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Исламабад m

  Roman: Islamabad m

• Sindhi: اسلام آباد
• Sinhalese: ඉස්ලාමාබාද් (islāmābād)
• Slovak: Islamabad m, Islámábád m
• Slovene: Islamabad m
• Spanish: Islamabad (es)
• Swedish: Islamabad (sv) n
• Tagalog: Islamabad
• Tajik: Исломобод (Islomobod)
• Tamil: இஸ்லாமாபாத் (islāmāpāt)
• Tatar: Исламабад (İslamabad)
• Telugu: ఇస్లామాబాద్ (islāmābād)
• Thai: อิสลามาบาด (ì-sà-laa-maa-bàat)
• Tibetan: ཨི་སི་ལམ་བོ (i si lam bo)
• Turkish: İslamabad (tr)
• Turkmen: Islamabad
• Ukrainian: Ісламаба́д m (Islamabád)
• Urdu: اِسْلام آباد m (islām ābād)
• Uyghur: ئىسلامئاباد (islam'abad)
• Uzbek: Islomobod
• Vietnamese: I-xla-ma-bát
• Western Panjabi: اسلام آباد
• Yiddish: איסלאַמאַבאַד n (islamabad)

See also

• (provinces and territories of Pakistan) provinces of Pakistan; Azad Kashmir, Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan, Islamabad Capital Territory, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Jammu Kashmir, Sindh ^{(Category: en:Provinces of Pakistan)}

Danish

Proper noun

Islamabad

1. Islamabad (the capital city of Pakistan)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Islamabade (uncommon)

Proper noun

Islamabad f

1. Islamabad (the capital city of Pakistan)

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈislamabat]

Proper noun

Islamabad m inan (genitive singular Islamabadu, declension pattern of dub)

1. Islamabad (the capital city of Pakistan)

References

• “Islamabad”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /islamaˈbad/ [is.la.maˈβ̞að̞]
• Rhymes: -ad
• Syllabification: Is‧la‧ma‧bad

Proper noun

Islamabad ?

1. Islamabad (the capital city of Pakistan)