English [ edit ] The Bosphorus from space. The Turkish Straits. Alternative forms [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From medieval Latin Bosphorus Ancient Greek Βόσπορος ( Bósporos ) .
Pronunciation [ edit ] Proper noun [ edit ] the Bosphorus
The narrow strait beside Istanbul Turkey 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 .
1950 Railway Magazine , page 435 :The 20-min. crossing of the Bosphorus by ferry steamer from the Golden Horn, the busy river-fed harbour that divides old and new Istanbul on the European side of the Bosphorus , was a pleasure in itself.
Synonyms [ edit ] Hypernyms [ edit ] Derived terms [ edit ] Related terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ] a strait that passes through Istanbul
Afrikaans: Bosporus Istanboel-straat
Albanian: Bosfori
Amharic: የቦስፖሮስ ወሽመጥ ( yäbosporos wäšmäṭ )
Arabic: مَضِيق بُوسْفُور m ( maḍīq busfūr ) , اَلْبُوسْفُور m ( al-busfūr ) , اَلْبُسْفُورْ m ( al-busfūr )
Egyptian Arabic: البوسفور
Hijazi Arabic: البُسْفور m ( al-busfōr )
Aragonese: Bosforo
Armenian: Բոսֆոր (hy) ( Bosfor )
Asturian: Bósforu m
Azerbaijani: Bosfor Boğazı
Bashkir: Босфор ( Bosfor )
Basque: Bosforo itsasartea
Belarusian: Басфо́р m ( Basfór )
Bengali: বসফরাস প্রণালী ( bośphoraś pronali )
Breton: Bosfor
Bulgarian: Босфо́р m ( Bosfór )
Burmese: ဘော့စ်ဖရပ် ရေလက်ကြား ( bhauc.hpa.rap relakkra: )
Catalan: Bòsfor m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 博斯普魯斯海峽 ／ 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 ) , ბოსფორის სრუტე ( bosporis sruṭe )
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
Kannada: ಬಾಸ್ಪೋರಸ್ ಕೊಲ್ಲಿ ( bāspōras kolli )
Karakalpak: Bosfor
Kazakh: Босфор бұғазы ( Bosfor būğazy )
Korean: 보스포루스 해협 ( Boseuporuseu haehyeop )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: Tengava Stenbolê Bosfor
Kyrgyz: Босфор ( Bosfor )
Lao: ຊ່ອງແຄບອິສະຕັນບູນ ( sǭng khǣp ʼi sa tan būn ) , ຊ່ອງແຄບໂບສະໂຟໂລດ ( sǭng khǣp bō sa fō lōt )
Latin: Bosporus Bosporus Thracius m
Latvian: Bosfors
Lithuanian: Bosforo sąsiauris Bosforas
Low German: Bosporus
Luxembourgish: Bosporus
Macedonian: Босфор m ( Bosfor )
Malay: Selat Bosphorus
Malayalam: ബോസ്ഫറസ് ( bōsphaṟasŭ )
Maltese: Bosforu m
Marathi: बोस्फोरस ( bosphoras )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Bosporos n
Nynorsk: Bosporos n
Occitan: Bosfòr m
Persian: تنگه بسفر ( tange-ye bosfor )
Polish: Bosfor (pl) m
Portuguese: Bósforo m
Punjabi: ਬਾਸਫੋਰਸ ਸਟ੍ਰੇਟ ( bāsphoras saṭreṭ )
Romanian: Bosfor
Russian: Босфо́р (ru) m ( Bosfór )
Scottish Gaelic: Bòsfaras f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Босфор m Боспор m
Roman: Bosfor m Bospor (sh) m
Sicilian: Bosfuru
Slovak: Bospor (sk) m
Slovene: Bospor (sl) m
Somali: Boosfoor
Spanish: Bósforo m
Swahili: Bosporus
Swedish: Bosporen (sv)
Tagalog: Bosporus
Tajik: Босфор ( Bosfor )
Tamil: பொசுபோரசு ( pocupōracu )
Tatar: Босфор бугазы ( Bosfor buğazı ) , Истанбул бугазы ( İstanbul buğazı )
Telugu: బోస్ఫొరస్ జలసంధి ( bōsphoras jalasandhi )
Thai: ช่องแคบบอสฟอรัส ( chông kâep bòtforrát )
Turkish: İstanbul Boğazı (tr)
Ukrainian: Босфо́р m ( Bosfór )
Urdu: آبنائے باسفورس
Uyghur: ئىستانبۇل بوغازى ( istanbul boghazi )
Uzbek: Bosfor
Vietnamese: eo biển Bosporus eo biển Bospho
Welsh: Bosphorus
West Frisian: Bosporus
Western Panjabi: باسفورس
Proper noun [ edit ] Bosphorus m sg genitive Bosphorī second declension
Alternative form of Bosporus Declension [ edit ] Second-declension noun, singular only.
Descendants [ edit ] 
