Kustantiniyah

Malay

Etymology

From Arabic الْقُسْطَنْطِينِيَّة (al-qusṭanṭīniyya). Its Jawi form قسطنطنيه is attested as far back as 1903 in a correspondence using the Malay language between Hashim Jalilul Alam of Brunei and his Ottoman contemporary Abdul Hamid II.^[1]

Proper noun

Kustantiniyah (Jawi spelling قسطنطنيه)

Constantinople, (the former name of Istanbul, now a city in Turkey.)

References

^ Ismail Hakkı Kadı; Peacock, A.C.S. (2019). "2: Royal Correspondence and Appeals for Help, 1824–1905". Ottoman-Southeast Asian Relations: Sources from the Ottoman Archives. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. pgs 75–327. →ISBN.

[1] Ismail Hakkı Kadı; Peacock, A.C.S. (2019). "2: Royal Correspondence and Appeals for Help, 1824–1905". Ottoman-Southeast Asian Relations: Sources from the Ottoman Archives. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. pgs 75–327. →ISBN.

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