Istanbul

See also İstanbul

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• Stambul
• Stamboul

Etymology

The name Istanbul was given to the city of Constantinople after the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.
The word is a bastardization of the Byzantine Greek phrase εἰς τὴν Πόλιν (eis tēn Polin, “to the City”), which is how Constantinople was referred to by the local Greeks.

Proper noun

Istanbul

1. Largest city of Turkey and last capital of Ottoman Empire.

Derived terms

• Istanbulite

Synonyms

• Byzantium, Constantinople

See also

• Ankara, second largest city and capital of the Republic of Turkey.

Translations

largest city of Turkey and last capital of Ottoman Empire

• Abkhaz: Асҭампыл (ab)
• Acehnese: Éseutamu
• Afrikaans: Istanboel (af), Istanbul (af)
• Albanian: Stamboll (sq)
• Arabic: إسطنبول (ar) (’isʈanbūl), استنبول (ar) ('istanbūl)

  Egyptian Arabic: استانبول

• Aramaic: ܐܝܣܛܢܒܘܠ
• Armenian: Ստամբուլ (hy) (Stambul) 
• Avar: Истамбул (av) (İstambul), Стамбул (av) (Stambul)
• Azeri:

  Cyrillic: Истанбул (az)

  Persic: ایستانبول (az)

  Roman: İstanbul (az)

• Bavarian: Istanbul
• Bulgarian: Истанбул (bg) (Istanbul), Цариград (bg) (Carigrad), Константинопол (bg) (Konstantinopol)
• Catalan: Istanbul (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 伊斯坦堡 (cmn) (Yīsītǎnbǎo)

• Chuvash: Стамбул (Stambul)
• Crimean Tatar: İstanbul
• Czech: Istanbul (cs) m, Cařihrad (cs) m
• Danish: Istanbul (da)
• Dutch: Istanboel (nl)
• Esperanto: Istanbulo (eo)
• Estonian: İstanbul (et)
• Extremaduran: Estambul
• Faroese: Istanbul (fo)
• French: Istanbul (fr) m
• Gagauz: İstanbul
• Georgian: სტამბოლი (ka) (stamboli)
• German: Istanbul (de) n
• Greek: Κωνσταντινούπολις (el) (Konstantinoúpolis) f , η Πόλις (i Pólis) f
• Hebrew: איסטנבול (he)
• Hindi: इस्तांबुल (hi)
• Hungarian: Isztambul (hu)
• Icelandic: Istanbúl (is) f, Mikligarður (is) m
• Indonesian: Istambul (id)
• Irish: Iostanbúl (ga) m
• Italian: Istambul (it)
• Japanese: イスタンブール (ja) (Isutanbūru)
• Javanese: Istambul (jv), Stambul (jv)
• Kabyle: Istambul

• Kazakh: Ыстамбұл (kk) (Istambul) , Стамбұл (kk) (Stambul) 
• Korean: 이스탄불 (ko)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ئەستەمبوڵ (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Стамбул (ky) (Stambul)
• Latvian: Stambula (lv)
• Lithuanian: Stambulas (lt)
• Macedonian: Истанбул (mk) (Ístanbul) m, Цариград (mk) (Cárigrad) m, Константинопол (mk) (Konstantinópol) m
• Maltese: Istanbul (mt)
• Marathi: इस्तांबुल (mr) (istaṃbula)
• Mingrelian: სტამბოლი
• Occitan: Istambol (oc)
• Old Church Slavonic: Цѣсар҄ь Градъ, Истанбоулъ
• Old English: Constantinopolis (ang)
• Pashto: استانبول (ps)
• Persian: استانبول (fa) (Estâmbul)
• Polish: Stambuł (pl) m, Istambuł (pl) m
• Portuguese: Istambul (pt)
• Romanian: Istanbul (ro)
• Russian: Стамбул (ru) (Stambúl) m , (historical) Царьград (ru) (Car'grád) m , Константинополь (ru) (Konstantinópol’) m 
• Rusyn: Істанбул
• Samogitian: Stanbols
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Истанбул (sh) m, Цариград (sh) m, Константинопољ (sh) m

  Roman: Istanbul (sh) m, Carigrad (sh) m, Konstantinopolj (sh) m

• Slovak: Carihrad (sk) m, Istanbul (sk) m, (historically) Konštantínopol (sk) m, (historically) Konštantinopol (sk) m
• Slovene: Ístanbul (sl) m
• Somali: Istanbuul (so)
• Spanish: Estambul (es) m
• Tatar: Истанбул (tt)
• Thai: อิสตันบูล (th) (ìtdtanbūn)
• Turkish: İstanbul (tr)
• Turkmen: Stambul (tk)
• Ukrainian: Стамбул (uk) (Stambúl) 
• Urdu: استنبول (ur), قسطنطنیہ (ur)
• Yakut: Истанбул
• Yiddish: סטאמבול (yi)
• Zazaki: Estanbol (Southern Zazaki), İstambol (Southern Zazaki)

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Czech

Proper noun

Istanbul m

1. Istanbul (the largest city of Turkey and last capital of Ottoman Empire)

Synonyms

• Byzantion
• Cařihrad
• Konstantinopol

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French

Proper noun

Istanbul

1. Istanbul

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Maltese

Proper noun

Istanbul

1. Istanbul

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Romanian

Proper noun

Wikipedia ^ro

Istanbul

1. Istanbul

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ǐstanbul/
• Hyphenation: I‧stan‧bul

Proper noun

Ìstanbul m (Cyrillic spelling Ѝстанбул)

1. Istanbul

Declension

    declension of Istanbul

	singular
nominative	Istanbul
genitive	Istanbula
dative	Istanbulu
accusative	Istanbul
vocative	Istanbule
locative	Istanbulu
instrumental	Istanbulom

See also

• Càrigrād
• Konstantinòpolj / Konstantinòpol

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Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈíːstambul/
• Tonal: ȋstanbul

Proper noun

Ístanbul m inan.

1. Istanbul

Declension

Declension of Istanbul (masculine inanimate, hard)

	singular
nominative	Istanbul
accusative	Istanbul
genitive	Istanbula
dative	Istanbulu
locative	Istanbulu
instrumental	Istanbulom

Related terms

• Ístanbulčan / Ístanbulčanka
• ístanbulski