Цареград
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From цар (car, “emperor”) + Old Church Slavonic град (grad, “city”), probably calqued after Ancient Greek expression Βασιλέως Πόλις (Basiléōs Pólis, “the city of the emperor”). Compare Bulgarian Цариград (Carigrad), Macedonian Цариград (Carigrad), Serbo-Croatian Цариград.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Царегра́д • (Carehrád) m inan (genitive Царегра́да, uncountable, relational adjective царегра́дський)
- (obsolete, language of literature) Istanbul, Constantinople (the largest city in Turkey)
- “Хай живе вільна Україна [Long Live Free Ukraine]”[1]:
- Як у Царегра́ді, сла́вних козаче́ньків / вра́жі бусурма́ни ві́шали на гак[...]
- Jak u Carehrádi, slávnyx kozačénʹkiv / vráži busurmány víšaly na hak[...]
- When in Istanbul, glorious Cossacks / were by devilish Muslims hung on a hook[...]
- 1968, Oles Honchar, Собор [The Cathedral]; republished Kyiv: Dnipro (publisher), 1989, →ISBN, page 132:
- Молодик у небі схожий на ті молодики, що розкидані на мечетях Цареграда...
- Molodyk u nebi sxožyj na ti molodyky, ščo rozkydani na mečetjax Carehrada...
- The waxing crescent in the sky is like the crescents scattered over Istanbul's mosques...
Declension
[edit]Declension of Царегра́д (inan sg-only hard masc-form accent-a)
singular | |
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nominative | Царегра́д Carehrád |
genitive | Царегра́да Carehráda |
dative | Царегра́ду Carehrádu |
accusative | Царегра́д Carehrád |
instrumental | Царегра́дом Carehrádom |
locative | Царегра́ду, Царегра́ді Carehrádu, Carehrádi |
vocative | Царегра́де Carehráde |
Synonyms
[edit]- (historical): Константино́поль (Konstantynópolʹ)
- (modern): Стамбу́л (Stambúl)
References
[edit]- “Цареград”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)
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