قسطنطینیه
Ottoman Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Arabic الْقُسْطَنْطِينِيَّة (al-qusṭanṭīniyya), from Byzantine Greek Κωνσταντινούπολις (Kōnstantinoúpolis, “City of Constantine”).
Proper noun
[edit]قسطنطینیه • (Kostantiniyye)
- (now historical) Synonym of استانبول, Constantinople (the former capital of the Byzantine Empire and Ottoman Empire).
Descendants
[edit]- Turkish: Kostantiniye
References
[edit]- Mallouf, Nassif (1856) “Constantinople”, in Dictionnaire français-turc, 2nd edition, Paris: Maisonneuve, page 120