Bosphorus

English

The Bosphorus from space.

The Turkish Straits.

Alternative forms

• Bosporus

Etymology

From medieval Latin Bosphorus, from Ancient Greek Βόσπορος (Bósporos).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒs.fəɹ.əs/, /ˈbɒs.pəɹ.əs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑs.fɚ.əs/, /ˈbɑs.pɚ.əs/

Proper noun

Bosphorus

1. (geography) The narrow waterway beside Istanbul connecting the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, the northern end of the Turkish Straits connecting the Black Sea with the Aegean and Mediterranean.

Synonyms

• Constantinople Strait
• Istanbul Strait

Hypernyms

• Turkish Strait(s)

Related terms

• Dardanelles

Translations

a strait that passes through Istanbul

• Afrikaans: Bosporus, Istanboel-straat
• Arabic: مَضِيق بُوسْفُور‏‎ m (maḍīq busfūr), اَلْبُوسْفُور‏‎ m (al-busfūr)

  Egyptian Arabic: البوسفور‏‎

• Aragonese: Bosforo
• Armenian: Բոսֆոր (Bosfor)
• Asturian: Bósforo m, Bósforo
• Azeri: Bosfor Boğazı
• Bashkir: Босфор (Bosfor)
• Basque: Bosforo itsasartea
• Belarusian: Басфо́р m (Basfór)
• Breton: Bosfor
• Bulgarian: Босфо́р m (Bosfór)
• Catalan: Bòsfor m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 博斯普魯斯海峽 (zh), 博斯普鲁斯海峡 (zh) (Bósīpǔlǔsī hǎixiá)

• Chuvash: Босфор (Bosfor)
• Czech: Bospor (cs) m
• Danish: Bosporus, Bosporusstrædet n (definite form)
• Dutch: Bosporus
• Esperanto: Bosporo
• Estonian: Bosporus
• Extremaduran: Bósforu
• Finnish: Bosporinsalmi (fi)
• French: Bosphore (fr) m
• Galician: Bósforo m
• Georgian: ბოსფორი (bospori)
• German: Bosporus (de) m
• Greek: Βόσπορος (el) m (Vósporos)

  Ancient: Βόσπορος m (Bósporos)

• Hebrew: בּוֹסְפּוֹרוּס‏‎ m (bosporus)
• Hindi: बोस्पोरुस जलसन्धि (bosporus jalsandhi)
• Hungarian: Boszporusz (hu)
• Icelandic: Bosporussund
• Indonesian: Selat Bosporus
• Irish: an Bhosparais f
• Italian: Bosforo (it) m
• Japanese: ボスフォラス海峡 (Bosuporasu kaikyō)
• Javanese: Selat Bosporus

• Karakalpak: Bosfor
• Korean: 보스포루스 해협 (Boseuporuseu haehyeop)
• Kurdish: Tengava Stenbolê, Bosfor
• Latin: Bosporus, Bosporus Thracius m
• Latvian: Bosfors
• Lithuanian: Bosforo sąsiauris, Bosforas
• Low German: Bosporus
• Luxembourgish: Bosporus
• Macedonian: Босфор m (Bosfor)
• Malay: Selat Bosphorus
• Norwegian: Bosporos
• Occitan: Bosfòr m
• Old English: Bosporos
• Persian: تنگه بسفر‏‎ (tanga bosfor)
• Polish: Bosfor (pl) m
• Portuguese: Bósforo m
• Romanian: Bosfor
• Russian: Босфо́р (ru) m (Bosfór)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Босфор m, Боспор m

  Roman: Bosfor m, Bospor (sh) m

• Sicilian: Bosfuru
• Slovak: Bospor (sk) m
• Slovene: Bospor (sl) m
• Spanish: Bósforo m
• Swahili: Bosporus
• Swedish: Bosporen
• Tatar: Босфор бугазы (Bosfor buğazı), Истанбул бугазы (İstanbul buğazı)
• Thai: ช่องแคบบอสฟอรัส (chông kâep bòtforrát)
• Turkish: İstanbul Boğazı (tr)
• Ukrainian: Босфо́р m (Bosfór)
• Urdu: آبنائے باسفورس‏‎
• Uyghur: ئىستانبۇل بوغازى‏‎ (istanbul boghazi)
• Vietnamese: eo biển Bosporus, eo biển Bospho
• Welsh: Bosphorus
• West Frisian: Bosporus
• Western Panjabi: باسفورس‏‎

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Latin

Proper noun

Bosphorus m (genitive Bosphorī); second declension

1. Alternative form of Bosporus

Declension

Second declension.

Case	Singular
nominative	Bosphorus
genitive	Bosphorī
dative	Bosphorō
accusative	Bosphorum
ablative	Bosphorō
vocative	Bosphore