Carigrad

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From cȁr (“emperor”) + grȃd (“city”), probably calqued after Ancient Greek expression Βασιλέως Πόλις (Basiléōs Pólis, “the city of the emperor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sǎriɡraːd/
• Hyphenation: Ca‧ri‧grad

Proper noun

Càrigrād m inan (Cyrillic spelling Ца̀ригра̄д)

1. (uncountable, dated, literary) Istanbul (the largest city in Turkey)

   Synonym: (modern) Ìstanbul

Declension

Declension of Carigrad

	singular
nominative	Carigrad
genitive	Carigrada
dative	Carigradu
accusative	Carigrad
vocative	Carigrade
locative	Carigradu
instrumental	Carigradom

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:Carigrad.