Dardanelles

English

Location of the Dardanelles (in yellow).

Etymology

Named after Ottoman forts spanning the strait, the Dardanelles, themselves likely named after Dardanus, an ancient city on the Asian shore of the strait, itself said to take its name from Dardanus, the son of Zeus and Electra.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌdɑː.dənˈɛlz/, [ˌdɑː.dənˈɛɫz]
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌdɑɹ.dənˈɛlz/, [ˌdɑɹ.dənˈɛɫz]

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

the Dardanelles

1. The strait connecting the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean Sea to the west.

Synonyms

• Hellespont (historical)

Translations

strait

• Afrikaans: Dardanelle pl
• Albanian: Dardanelet
• Amharic: የዳርዳኔል ወሽመጥ (yädardanel wäšmäṭ)
• Arabic: اَلدَرْدَنِّيل m (ad-dardannīl)
• Armenian: Դարդանել (hy) (Dardanel)
• Azerbaijani: Dardanel
• Basque: Dardaneloak pl
• Belarusian: Дарданэ́лы f pl (Dardanély)
• Bengali: দার্দানেলেস প্রণালী (dardaneles pronali)
• Bulgarian: Дардане́ли f pl (Dardanéli)
• Catalan: Dardanels m pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 達達尼爾海峽／达达尼尔海峡 (zh) (Dádání'ěr Hǎixiá)

• Czech: Dardanely (cs) f pl
• Danish: Dardanellerne pl
• Dutch: Dardanellen pl
• Esperanto: Dardaneloj pl
• Estonian: Dardanellid
• Finnish: Dardanellit (fi)
• French: Dardanelles (fr) f pl
• Galician: Dardanelos m pl
• Georgian: დარდანელი (dardaneli), დარდანელის სრუტე (dardanelis sruṭe)
• German: Dardanellen (de) pl
• Greek: Δαρδανέλια (el) f (Dardanélia)

  Ancient Greek: Ἑλλήσποντος m (Hellḗspontos)

• Hebrew: דרדנלים m pl (dardanelim)
• Hindi: दार्दानेल्ज़ जलसन्धि (dārdānelz jalsandhi)
• Hungarian: Dardanellák (hu)
• Icelandic: Dardanellasund n
• Indonesian: Selat Dardanella
• Irish: an Dardainéil f
• Italian: Dardanelli (it) m or pl
• Japanese: ダーダネルス海峡 (Dādanerusu-kaikyō)
• Kannada: ಡಾರ್ಡ್ನೆಲ್ಸ್ (ḍārḍnels‌)
• Kazakh: Дарданелл бұғазы (Dardanell būğazy)
• Korean: 다르다넬스 해협 (dareudanelseu haehyeop)
• Kyrgyz: Дарданелл (Dardanell)
• Latin: Hellēspontus m
• Latvian: Dardaneļi m pl
• Lithuanian: Dardanelai m pl
• Macedonian: Дарданели f pl (Dardaneli)
• Malay: Dardanelles
• Malayalam: ഡാർഡനെൽസ് (ḍāṟḍanelsŭ)
• Maltese: Dardanelli
• Marathi: डार्डेनेल्झ (ḍārḍeneljha)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Dardanellene pl

  Nynorsk: Dardanellane pl

• Persian: داردانل (fa) (dârdânel)
• Polish: Dardanele (pl) nvir
• Portuguese: Dardanelos m pl
• Punjabi: ਡਾਰਡੇਨੇਲਸ ਸਟਰੇਟ (ḍārḍenelas saṭreṭ)
• Romanian: Dardanele m pl
• Russian: Дардане́ллы f pl (Dardanɛ́lly)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Дарданели f pl

  Roman: Dardaneli (sh) f pl

• Slovak: Dardanely f pl
• Slovene: Dardanele (sl) f pl
• Somali: Dardaniil
• Spanish: Dardanelos m or pl
• Swedish: Dardanellerna c pl
• Tajik: Дарданелл (Dardanell)
• Tamil: தார்தனெல்சு நீரிணை (tārtaṉelcu nīriṇai)
• Telugu: డార్డనెల్లెస్ (ḍārḍanelles)
• Thai: ดาร์ดะเนลส์
• Turkish: Çanakkale Boğazı (tr)
• Ukrainian: Дардане́лли f pl (Dardanélly)
• Uzbek: Dardanel boʻgʻozi
• Vietnamese: Dardanellia
• Welsh: Dardanelles
• West Frisian: Dardanellen pl

See also

• Bosphorus
• Dardanelle

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daʁ.da.nɛl/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Dardanelles f pl (plural only)

1. Dardanelles