Golden Horn

English

Etymology

Calque of Ancient Greek Χρυσόκερας (Khrusókeras).

Proper noun

Golden Horn

1. A major urban waterway and the primary inlet of the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey.
   • 1950 July, J. C. Mertens, “By the "Taurus Express" to Baghdad”, in 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.

Translations

waterway and inlet

• Afrikaans: Goue Horing
• Albanian: Bririt të Artë
• Arabic: الْقَرْن الذَّهَبِي m (al-qarn aḏ-ḏahabī)
• Armenian: Ոսկեղջյուր (Oskeġǰyur)
• Azerbaijani: Haliç
• Basque: Urrezko Adarra
• Belarusian: Залаты́ Рог m (Zalatý Roh)
• Bulgarian: Златен рог m (Zlaten rog)
• Catalan: Corn d'Or m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 金角灣／金角湾 (zh) (Jīnjiǎowān)

• Czech: Zlatý roh m
• Danish: Det Gyldne Horn n
• Dutch: Gouden Hoorn n
• Estonian: Kuldne sarv
• Finnish: Kultainen sarvi
• French: Corne d’Or (fr) m
• Galician: Corno de Ouro m
• Georgian: ოქროს რქა (okros rka)
• German: Goldenes Horn n
• Greek: Κεράτιος Κόλπος (Kerátios Kólpos), Χρυσόν Κέρας (Chrysón Kéras)
• Hebrew: קרן הזהב f (keren hizhit)
• Hungarian: Aranyszarv-öböl
• Indonesian: Tanduk Emas
• Italian: Corno d'Oro m
• Japanese: 金角湾 (Kinkakuwan)
• Korean: 금각만 (geumgangman)
• Latin: Sinus Ceratinus m
• Latvian: Zelta rags m
• Lithuanian: Aukso Ragas m
• Macedonian: Златен Рог m (Zlaten Rog)
• Malay: Tanduk Emas
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Det gylne horn n

  Nynorsk: Det gylne hornet n

• Persian: شاخ طلایی (šâx talâyi)
• Polish: Złoty Róg (pl) m
• Portuguese: Corno de Ouro m
• Romanian: Cornul de Aur n
• Russian: Золото́й Рог (ru) m (Zolotój Rog)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Златни рог m

  Roman: Zlatni rog m

• Slovak: Zlatý roh m
• Slovene: Zlati rog m
• Spanish: Cuerno de Oro m
• Swedish: Gyllene hornet n
• Turkish: Haliç (tr), Altın Boynuz
• Ukrainian: Золотий Ріг m (Zolotyj Rih)
• Vietnamese: Sừng Vàng
• Welsh: Corn Euraidd m

Anagrams

• longhorned