Istanbul

See also: İstanbul

English

Alternative forms

• Stambul
• Stamboul

Etymology

The word is a bastardization of the Byzantine Greek phrase εἰς τὴν Πόλιν (eis tḕn Pólin, “to the City”), which is how Constantinople was referred to by the local Greeks.

Proper noun

Istanbul

1. A Turkish city, and the largest European city by population, which was the last capital of Ottoman Empire and the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire).

Synonyms

• Byzantium or Byzantion, Constantinople

Derived terms

• Istanbulite

Translations

largest city of Turkey and last capital of Ottoman Empire

• Abkhaz: Асҭампыл (Astampʼəl)
• Acehnese: Éseutamu
• Afrikaans: Istanboel, Istanbul
• Albanian: Stamboll
• Arabic: إِسْطَنْبُول (ʔisṭanbūl), إِسْتَنْبُول (ʔistanbūl)

  Egyptian Arabic: استانبول

• Aramaic: ܐܝܣܛܢܒܘܠ (ܐܝܣܛܢܒܘܠ)
• Armenian: Ստամբուլ (Stambul), Պոլիս (Polis)
• Avar: Истамбул (İstambul), Стамбул (Stambul)
• Azerbaijani:

  Cyrillic: Истанбул

  Persic: ایستانبول

  Roman: İstanbul (az)

• Bavarian: Istanbul
• Bulgarian: Истанбул (Istanbul), Цариград (Carigrad), Константинопол (Konstantinopol)
• Catalan: Istanbul
• Chechen: Истмала (İstmala)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 伊斯坦布爾／伊斯坦布尔 (zh) (Yīsītǎnbù'ěr), 伊斯坦布尔 (zh) (Yīsītǎnbù'ěr), 伊斯坦堡 (Yīsītǎnbǎo)

• Chuvash: Стамбул (Stambul)
• Crimean Tatar: İstanbul
• Czech: Istanbul (cs) m, Cařihrad (cs) m
• Danish: Istanbul
• Dutch: Istanboel
• Esperanto: Istanbulo
• Estonian: İstanbul (et)
• Extremaduran: Estambul
• Faroese: Istanbul, Miklagarður m (historical)
• Finnish: Istanbul (fi) (Turkey); Konstantinopoli (fi) (Ottoman Empire)
• French: Istanbul (fr) m
• Gagauz: İstanbul
• Georgian: სტამბოლი (sṭamboli)
• German: Istanbul (de) n
• Greek: Κωνσταντινούπολη (el) f (Konstantinoúpoli), Πόλη (el) f (Póli)

  Ancient: Κωνσταντινούπολις f (Kōnstantinoúpolis)

• Hausa: Santambul
• Hebrew: איסטנבול
• Hindi: इस्तांबुल (istāmbul)
• Hungarian: Isztambul (hu)
• Icelandic: Istanbúl f, Mikligarður m
• Indonesian: Istambul
• Irish: Iostanbúl m
• Italian: Istambul
• Japanese: イスタンブール (ja) (Isutanbūru)
• Javanese: Istambul, Stambul
• Kabyle: Istambul
• Kazakh: Ыстамбұл (Ystambūl), Стамбұл (Stambūl)
• Korean: 이스탄불 (ko) (iseutanbul)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

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• Kyrgyz: Стамбул (Stambul)
• Ladino: Estanbol
• Lak: Истамбул (Istambul)
• Latin: Bȳzantium (la) n, Cōnstantīnopolis f
• Latvian: Stambula
• Lithuanian: Stambulas
• Macedonian: Истанбул m (Istanbul), Цариград m (Carigrad), Константино́пол m (Konstantinópol)
• Maltese: Istanbul
• Marathi: इस्तांबुल (istaṃbula)
• Mingrelian: სტამბოლი (sṭamboli)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Istanbul

  Nynorsk: Istanbul

• Occitan: Istambol
• Old Church Slavonic: Цѣсар҄ь Градъ (Cěsarʹĭ Gradŭ), Истанбоулъ (Istanbulŭ)
• Old English: Constantinopolis
• Old Norse: Miklagarðr
• Ottoman Turkish: استانبول (İstanbul)
• Pashto: استانبول
• Persian: استانبول (fa) (Estâmbol)
• Polish: Stambuł (pl) m, Istambuł (pl) m
• Portuguese: Istambul
• Romanian: Istanbul
• Russian: Стамбу́л (ru) m (Stambúl), (historical) Царьгра́д (ru) m (Carʹgrád), Константино́поль (ru) m (Konstantinópolʹ)
• Rusyn: Істанбул (Istanbul)
• Samogitian: Stanbols
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Истанбул m, Цариград m, Константинопољ m

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

• Slovak: Carihrad m, Istanbul m, (historically) Konštantínopol m, (historically) Konštantinopol m
• Slovene: Ístanbul m
• Somali: Istanbuul
• Spanish: Estambul (es) m
• Swedish: Istanbul (sv)
• Tatar: Истанбул (İstanbul)
• Thai: อิสตันบูล (ìtdtanbūn)
• Turkish: İstanbul (tr)
• Turkmen: Stambul
• Ukrainian: Стамбу́л (Stambúl)
• Urdu: استنبول, قسطنطنیہ
• Uyghur: ئىستانبۇل (istanbul)
• Yakut: Истанбул (İstanbul)
• Yiddish: סטאַמבול (stambul)
• Zazaki: Estanbol (Southern Zazaki), İstambol (Southern Zazaki)

See also

• Ankara, second largest city and capital of the Republic of Turkey.

Anagrams

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Catalan

Proper noun

Istanbul m

1. Istanbul (a city in Turkey)

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪstanbul]

Proper noun

1. Istanbul (a city in Turkey)

Synonyms

• Byzantion
• Cařihrad
• Konstantinopol

Derived terms

• Istanbulan
• istanbulský

Further reading

• Template:R:KNLA
• Template:R:SSJC

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Danish

Proper noun

Istanbul

1. Istanbul (a city in Turkey)

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish İstanbul, corruption of Byzantine Greek εἰς τὴν Πόλιν (eis tḕn Pólin, “to the City”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪs.tɑnˌbul/
• Hyphenation: Is‧tan‧bul

Proper noun

Istanbul n

1. Istanbul (a city in Turkey)

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Faroese

Etymology

From Turkish İstanbul, from the Byzantine Greek phrase .

Proper noun

Istanbul

1. Istanbul (a city in Turkey)

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Istanbul
Accusative	Istanbul
Dative	Istanbuli
Genitive	Istanbuls

Synonyms

• Konstantinopolis
• Miklagarður

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /is.tɑ̃.bul/

Proper noun

Istanbul ?

1. Istanbul (a city in Turkey)

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German

Alternative forms

• Stambul (dated or archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪs.tanˌbuːl/
• IPA^(key): /ˈiːs-/, /-tam-/, /ˌbʊl/ (variants; with all possible combinations of these and the above)

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Proper noun

Istanbul n (genitive Istanbuls)

1. Istanbul (a city in Turkey)

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Maltese

Proper noun

Istanbul

1. Istanbul (a city in Turkey)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Istanbul

1. Istanbul (a city in Turkey)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Istanbul

1. Istanbul (a city in Turkey)

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Istanbul f

1. Alternative spelling of Istambul

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Romanian

Proper noun

Istanbul

1. Istanbul (a city in Turkey)

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǐstanbul/
• Hyphenation: I‧stan‧bul

Proper noun

Ìstanbul m (Cyrillic spelling Ѝстанбул)

1. Istanbul (a city in Turkey)

Declension

Declension of Istanbul

	singular
nominative	Istanbul
genitive	Istanbula
dative	Istanbulu
accusative	Istanbul
vocative	Istanbule
locative	Istanbulu
instrumental	Istanbulom

See also

• Càrigrād
• Konstantinòpolj / Konstantinòpol

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Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /íːstanbul/

Proper noun

Ȋstanbul m inan

1. Istanbul (a city in Turkey)

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	Ístanbul
genitive	Ístanbula
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Ístanbul
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Ístanbula
dative (dajȃlnik)	Ístanbulu
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Ístanbul
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Ístanbulu
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Ístanbulom

Related terms

• Ístanbulčan / Ístanbulčanka
• ístanbulski

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Swedish

Proper noun

Istanbul n (genitive Istanbuls)

1. Istanbul (a city in Turkey)