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): /ˌkɔnstæntɪˈnəʊp(ə)l/
• Rhymes: -əʊpəl

Proper noun

Constantinople

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

Synonyms

• Istanbul
• Byzantium

Derived terms

• Constantinopolitan

Translations

Constantinople

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

  Old Armenian: Կոստանդնուպօլիս (Kostandnupōlis)

• Azerbaijani: Konstantinopol, Qüstəntiniyyə
• 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)
• Hindi: क़ुस्तुंतुनिया (qustuntuniyā)
• 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 (kōṇsṟṟānṟinōppiḷŭ)
• Neapolitan: Custantenobbule
• Norwegian: Konstantinopel
• Occitan: Constantinòple
• Old Norse: Miklagarðr
• Ottoman Turkish: قسطنطینیه‎ (Kostantiniyye)
• Persian: قسطنطنیه‎ (fa) (qostantaniyye)
• Polish: Konstantynopol (pl) m
• 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)
• Ukrainian: Константино́поль m (Konstantynópolʹ)
• Urdu: قسطنطنیہ‎ (qustuntuniyā)
• Uzbek: Konstantinopol, Qustantiniya
• Welsh: Caergystennin

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French

Proper noun

Constantinople m

1. Constantinople

Synonyms

• Byzance (pre-Constantine)
• Istamboul (Ottoman)
• Istanbul (Turkey)

Derived terms

• constantinopolitain