English
The Bosphorus from space. The Turkish Straits.
Etymology
From medieval (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] Latin Bosphorus (deprecated template usage ) [etyl] Ancient Greek Βόσπορος ( Bósporos ) .
Pronunciation
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Hyphenation: Bos‧pho‧rus
Proper noun
Bosphorus
( geography ) 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
Hypernyms
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 (hy) ( Bosfor )
Asturian: Bósforo m Bósforo
Azerbaijani: 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 ／ 博斯普鲁斯海峡 (zh) ( Bósīpǔlǔsī Hǎixiá ) , 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
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Karakalpak: Bosfor
Korean: 보스포루스 해협 ( Boseuporuseu haehyeop )
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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 ( tange-ye 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 ( bāsfors )
Latin
Proper noun
Bosphorus m sg genitive Bosphorī second declension
Alternative form of Bosporus
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
