Constantinople

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Κωνσταντινούπολις (Kōnstantinoúpolis, “Constantine’s city”), after Roman emperor Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus (also known as Constantine I, St. Constantine, and/or Constantine the Great).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɔnstæntɪˈnəʊpl/
• Rhymes: -əʊpəl

Proper noun

Constantinople

1. Name of present-day Istanbul from 330-1930 CE. Previously known as Byzantium.

Synonyms

• Istanbul

Translations

Constantinople

• Albanian: Konstantinopoja
• Arabic: اَلْقُسْطَنْطِينِيَّة‏‎ f (al-qusṭanṭīniyya)
• Armenian: Կոստանդնուպոլիս (Kostandnupolis), Պոլիս (Polis)

  Old Armenian: Կոստանդնուպօլիս (Kostandnupōlis)

• Azeri: Konstantinopol
• Basque: Konstantinopolis
• Breton: Kergustentin
• Bulgarian: Константинопол m (Konstantinopol)
• Catalan: Constantinoble
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 君士坦丁堡 (zh) (Jūnshìtǎndīngbǎo)

• Czech: Konstantinopol
• Danish: Konstantinopel
• Dutch: Constantinopel (nl) n
• Esperanto: Konstantinopolo
• Estonian: Konstantinoopol
• Faroese: Konstantinopolis
• Finnish: Konstantinopoli (fi)
• French: Constantinople (fr)

  Middle French: Constantinoble

  Old French: Constantinoble

• Galician: Constantinopla
• Georgian: კონსტანტინოპოლი (ḳonsṭanṭinoṗoli)
• German: Konstantinopel (de)
• Greek: Κωνσταντινούπολη (el) f (Konstantinoúpoli)

  Ancient: Κωνσταντινούπολις f (Kōnstantinoúpolis)

• Hebrew: קונסטנטינופול‏‎ (qonst'ant'inopol)
• Hungarian: Konstantinápoly (hu)
• Ido: Konstantinopolo
• Indonesian: Konstantinopel
• Irish: Cathair Chonstaintín f

• Italian: Costantinopoli
• Japanese: コンスタンティノポリス (konsutantinoporisu)
• Korean: 콘스탄티노폴리스 (konseutantinopolliseu)
• Latin: Constantinopolis
• Low German: Konstantinopel
• Macedonian: Константинопол m (Konstantinopol)
• Malay: Konstantaniah
• Malayalam: കോണ്സ്റ്റാന്റിനോപ്പിള് (kōṇsṟṟānṟinōppiḷ)
• Neapolitan: Custantenobbule
• Norwegian: Konstantinopel
• Occitan: Constantinòple
• Old Norse: Miklagarðr
• Persian: کنستانتینوپول‏‎ (konstantinopol)
• Polish: Konstantynopol (pl)
• Portuguese: Constantinopla (pt)

  Old Portuguese: Constantinopla

• Romanian: Constantinopol
• Russian: Константино́поль (ru) m (Konstantinópolʹ), Царьгра́д (ru) m (Carʹgrád)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Константинопољ m, Константинопол m, Цариград m

  Roman: Konstantinopolj m, Konstantinòpol (sh) m, Carigrad (sh) m

• Slovak: Konštantínopol
• Spanish: Constantinopla f
• Swedish: Konstantinopel
• Tagalog: Konstantinopla
• Thai: คอนสแตนติโนเปิล (Khonsataentinopoel)
• Turkish: Konstantinopolis (tr), Konstantiniye
• Ukrainian: Константино́поль m (Konstantynópolʹ)
• Urdu: قسطنطنیہ‏‎
• Welsh: Caergystennin

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French

Proper noun

Constantinople m

1. Constantinople

Derived terms

• constantinopolitain