استانبول

See also: إستانبول

Arabic

Proper noun

اِسْتَانْبُول • (ʔistanbūl) f

1. alternative spelling of إِسْتَانْبُول (ʔistanbūl)

Ottoman Turkish

Istanbul province

Alternative forms

• Իսթանպուլ (İstanbul) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

From a corruption of Byzantine Greek εἰς τὴν Πόλιν (eis tḕn Pólin, “to the City”), which is how Constantinople was referred to by the local Greeks.

Proper noun

استانبول • (İstanbul)

1. Istanbul (a city and province in Istanbul region, Turkey)

Synonyms

• (city): قسطنطینیه (Kostantiniyye) (historical)

Descendants

• → Abkhaz: Сҭампыл (Stampʼəl), Асҭампыл (Astampʼəl)
• → English: Stambul, Stamboul
• → Indonesian: Stambul, stambul
• Turkish: İstanbul

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “استانبول”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 74
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “استانبول”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 176
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–), “İstanbul”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “استانبول”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1812
• Sezen, Tahir (2017), “İstanbul”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[4], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 385

Persian

Alternative forms

• استنبول (istanbūl / estanbul)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish استانبول (istanbul) or Arabic إِسْتَانْبُول (ʔistānbūl), from Byzantine Greek εἰς τὴν Πόλιν (eis tḕn Pólin, “to the City”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔis.taːn.ˈbuːl/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪs.t̪ʰɑːm.búːl]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪs.t̪ʰɑːm.búːl]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɪs.t̪ʰɑːm.búːl]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔis.t̪ʰɔːm.búl̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔes.t̪ʰɒːm.ból̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔis.t̪ʰɔm.búl]

Readings
Classical reading?	istānbūl
Dari reading?	istānbūl
Iranian reading?	estânbol
Tajik reading?	istonbul

Proper noun

استانبول • (istānbūl / estânbol) (Tajik spelling Истонбул)

1. Istanbul (a major city and province of Turkey)

   Synonym: قسطنطنیه (qustantaniyya / ġostantaniye, “Constantinople”)

   • c. 1060, Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Safarnāma [Book of Travels]‎^[5]:

     و آنجا یعنی بر آن مناره آیینه‌ای حراقه ساخته بودند که هر کشتی رومیان که از استانبول می‌آمدی چون به مقابله آن رسیدی آتشی از آن آینه افتادی و بسوختی.

     w-ānjā ya'nī bar ān munāra āyīna'ē harrāqa sāxta būdand ki har kaštī-yi rūmīyān ki az istānbūl mē-āmadē čōn ba muqābila-yi ān rasīdē ātišē az ān āyīna uftādē u bisōxtē.

     And there, that is to say on that lighthouse, a Mirror of Fireships had been constructed so that any Roman [Byzantine] ship which came from Constantinople would catch fire from that mirror when it passed in front of it and be burnt.