Islamabad

See also: Islámábád and Îslamabad

English

Etymology

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Arabic أَسْلَمَ (ʔaslama)

Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām)bor.

Classical Persian اِسْلَام (islām)bor.

Urdu اِسْلَام (islām)

Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-

Proto-Indo-Iranian *paH-

Proto-Iranian *paH-

Proto-Iranian *āpāta-

Middle Persian ʾp̄ʾt'

Classical Persian آبَاد (ābād)bor.

Urdu آبَاد (ābād)

Urdu اسلام آباد (islām ābād)bor.

English Islamabad

From Urdu اسلام آباد (islām ābād). Equivalent to Islam +‎ -abad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪzˈlɑːməˌbɑːd/, /ɪsˈlɑːməˌbɑːd/, /ɪzˈlæməˌbæd/

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Proper noun

Islamabad

2. The capital city of Pakistan, located within the Islamabad Capital Territory.
   1. (metonymic) The Pakistani government.
4. The former name of Chittagong, a city in present-day Bangladesh

Term ISLAMABAD is written for Chattogram in a map of 1776

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Translations

the capital of Pakistan

• Albanian: Islamabadi m, Islamabad m (indefinite)
• Amharic: ኢስላማባድ (ʾislamabad)
• Arabic: إِسْلَام آباد f (ʔislām ʔābād), إِسْلَام أَبَاد f (ʔislām ʔabād)
• Armenian: Իսլամաբադ (hy) (Islamabad)
• Assamese: ইছলামাবাদ (islamabad)
• Azerbaijani:

  Cyrillic: Исламабад

  Latin: İslamabad

• Belarusian: Ісламаба́д m (Islamabád)
• Bengali: ইসলামাবাদ (bn) (islamabad)
• Bulgarian: Исламаба́д m (Islamabád)
• Burmese: အစ္စလာမာဘတ်မြို့ (acca.lamabhatmrui.)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 伊斯蘭堡 / 伊斯兰堡 (ji¹ si¹ laan⁴ bou²)

  Mandarin: 伊斯蘭堡 / 伊斯兰堡 (zh) (Yīsīlánbǎo)

• Czech: Islámábád (cs) m
• Danish: Islamabad n
• Dhivehi: އިސްލާމްއާބާދު (islām̊ābādu)
• Dutch: Islamabad (nl) n
• Esperanto: Islamabado (eo)
• Estonian: Islamabad (et)
• Finnish: Islamabad (fi)
• French: Islamabad (fr)
• Georgian: ისლამაბადი (ka) (islamabadi)
• German: Islamabad (de) n
• Greek: Ισλαμαμπάντ (el) m (Islamampánt)
• Gujarati: ઇસ્લામાબાદ (islāmābād)
• Hebrew: אסלאמאבאד f (islamabád)
• Hindi: इस्लामाबाद m (islāmābād)
• Hungarian: Iszlámábád (hu)
• Icelandic: Islamabad n
• Indonesian: Islamabad
• Irish: Islamabad
• Japanese: イスラマバード (ja) (Isuramabādo)
• Kannada: ಇಸ್ಲಾಮಾಬಾದ್ (islāmābād)
• Kashmiri:

  Arabic: اِسلام آبادٖ

• Kazakh: Исламабад (Iyslamabad)
• Khmer: ឥស្លាម៉ាបាដ (km) (ʼihslaamaabaat)
• Korean: 이슬라마바드 (ko) (Iseullamabadeu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Îslamabad

• Kyrgyz: Исламабад (ky) (İslamabad)
• Lao: ອິດສະລາມາບັດ (ʼit sa lā mā bat)
• Latin: Islāmābāda (la) f
• Latvian: Islāmābāda f
• Lithuanian: Islamabadas m
• Macedonian: Исламабад m (Islamabad)
• Malay: Islamabad
• Malayalam: ഇസ്ലാമബാദ് (islāmabādŭ)
• Marathi: इस्लामाबाद n (islāmābād)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Исламабад (Islamabad)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Islamabad (no) n

  Nynorsk: Islamabad n

• Odia: ଇସଲାମାବାଦ (isalāmābāda)
• Pashto: اسلام آباد m (eslām ābād)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: اِسْلام‌آباد (eslâm-âbâd)

• Polish: Islamabad (pl) m
• Portuguese: Islamabad (pt) f
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਇਸਲਾਮਾਬਾਦ (isalāmābād)

  Shahmukhi: اسلام آباد

• Romanian: Islamabad (ro)
• Russian: Исламаба́д (ru) m (Islamabád)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Исламабад m

  Latin: Islamabad m

• Sindhi:

  Arabic: اسلام آباد (āslām ābād)

• Sinhalese: ඉස්ලාමාබාද් (islāmābād)
• Slovak: Islamabad m, Islámábád m
• Slovene: Islamabad m
• Spanish: Islamabad (es)
• Swedish: Islamabad (sv) n
• Tagalog: Islamabad
• Tajik: Исломобод (Islomobod)
• Tamil: இஸ்லாமாபாத் (islāmāpāt)
• Tatar: Исламабад (İslamabad)
• Telugu: ఇస్లామాబాద్ (islāmābād)
• Thai: อิสลามาบาด (ì-sà-laa-maa-bàat)
• Tibetan: ཨི་སི་ལམ་བོ (i si lam bo)
• Turkish: İslamabad (tr)
• Turkmen:

  Cyrillic: Ысламабад

  Latin: Yslamabad

• Ukrainian: Ісламаба́д (uk) m (Islamabád)
• Urdu: اِسْلام آباد m (islām ābād)
• Uyghur: ئىسلامئاباد (islam'abad)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: Исломобод (Islomobod)

  Latin : Islomobod

• Vietnamese: I-xla-ma-bát
• Yiddish: איסלאַמאַבאַד n (islamabad)

See also

provinces and territories of Pakistanedit

• Azad Kashmir
• Balochistan
• Gilgit-Baltistan
• Islamabad Capital Territory
• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
• Punjab
• Sindh

Danish

Proper noun

Islamabad

1. Islamabad (the capital city of Pakistan)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.slaˈma.bat/

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• Rhymes: -abat
• Syllabification: I‧sla‧ma‧bad

Proper noun

Islamabad m inan (related adjective islamabadzki)

1. Islamabad (the capital city of Pakistan)

Declension

Declension of Islamabad

	singular
nominative	Islamabad
genitive	Islamabadu
dative	Islamabadowi
accusative	Islamabad
instrumental	Islamabadem
locative	Islamabadzie
vocative	Islamabadzie

Derived terms

nouns

• islamabadczyk
• islamabadka

References

• “Islamabad”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[1] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Islamabade (uncommon)

Proper noun

Islamabad f

1. Islamabad (the capital city of Pakistan)

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /islamabat/, [ˈislamabat]
• Rhymes: -abat
• Hyphenation: Is‧la‧ma‧bad

Proper noun

Islamabad m inan (genitive singular Islamabadu, declension pattern of dub)

1. Islamabad (the capital city of Pakistan)

References

• “Islamabad”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /islamaˈbad/ [is.la.maˈβ̞að̞]
• Rhymes: -ad
• Syllabification: Is‧la‧ma‧bad

Proper noun

Islamabad ?

1. Islamabad (the capital city of Pakistan)