Kustantiniyah
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Malay[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Arabic الْقُسْطَنْطِينِيَّة (al-qusṭanṭīniyya). Its Jawi form قسطنطنيه is attested as far back as 1903 in a correspondence using the Malay language between Hashim Jalilul Alam of Brunei and his Ottoman contemporary Abdul Hamid II.[1]
Proper noun[edit]
Kustantiniyah (Jawi spelling قسطنطنيه)
- Constantinople, (the former name of Istanbul, now a city in Turkey.)