Nur-Sultan

See also: Nur-Sułtan

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Kazakh Нұр-Сұлтан (Nūr-Sūltan), from the name Нұрсұлтан (Nūrsūltan). Named after the long-ruling president Nursultan Nazarbayev (born 1940) in 2019, shortly after his resignation.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌnʊəsəlˈtɑːn/, /ˈnʊəsəltɑːn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈnʊɹsəlˌtɑːn/

Proper noun

Nur-Sultan

2. Former name of Astana (“the capital city of Kazakhstan”), used from 2019 to 2022.

Translations

former name of Astana — see also Astana

• Albanian: Nursultan m, Nur-Sultan m
• Amharic: ኑር-ሡልታን (nur-śultan)
• Arabic: نُور سُلْطَان f (nūr sulṭān)
• Armenian: Նուր-Սուլթան (Nur-Sultʻan)
• Azerbaijani: Nur-Sultan
• Belarusian: Нур-Султа́н m (Nur-Sultán)
• Bengali: নুর-সুলতান (nur-śulotan)
• Bulgarian: Нур Султа́н m (Nur Sultán)
• Burmese: နာဆူလ်တန်မြို့ (nahcultanmrui.)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 努爾-蘇丹 / 努尔-苏丹 (zh) (Nǔ'ěr-Sūdān)

• Czech: Nur-Sultan m
• Danish: Nur-Sultan n
• Dutch: Nur-Sultan n, Noer-Soeltan n
• Estonian: Nur-Sultan
• Finnish: Nur-Sultan (fi)
• French: Noursoultan (fr) m, Nour-Soultan m
• Georgian: ნურ-სულთანი (ka) (nur-sultani)
• German: Nur-Sultan (de) n
• Greek: Νουρσουλτάν (Noursoultán)
• Hebrew: נוּר-סוּלְטָן f (nur-sultán)
• Hindi: नूर-सुल्तान m (nūr-sultān)
• Hungarian: Nur-Szultan (hu)
• Icelandic: Nursultan
• Indonesian: Nursultan
• Irish: Nur-Sultan
• Italian: Nur-Sultan
• Japanese: ヌルスルタン (ja) (Nurusurutan)
• Kazakh: Нұр-Сұлтан (Nūr-Sūltan)

  Arabic: نۇر-سۇلتان

  Latin: Nūr-Sūltan

• Khmer: នុរស៊ុលតង់ (nusultɑng)
• Korean: 누르술탄 (Nureusultan)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Nur-Sultan

• Kyrgyz: Нур-Султан (Nur-Sultan)
• Lao: ນູຣ໌ ຊຸລຕານ (nūn sun tān)
• Latvian: Nursultana f
• Lithuanian: Nur Sultanas m
• Macedonian: Нур-Султан m (Nur-Sultan)
• Malay: Nursultan
• Marathi: नूर-सुल्तान n (nūr-sultān)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Нур-Султан (Nur-Sultan)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Nur-Sultan, Nursultan

• Pashto: نورسلطان m (nūrsoltān)
• Persian: نورسلطان (nursoltân)
• Polish: Nur-Sułtan m
• Portuguese: Nur Sultã (pt)
• Romanian: Nur-Sultan
• Russian: Нур-Султа́н (ru) m (Nur-Sultán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Нур-Султан m, Нурсултан m, Нур Султан m

  Roman: Nur-Sultan m, Nursultan m, Nur Sultan m

• Slovak: Nur-Sultan m
• Slovene: Nursultan m
• Spanish: Nursultán
• Swedish: Nur-Sultan (sv) n
• Tajik: Нурсултон (Nursulton)
• Tatar: Нур-Солтан (Nur-Soltan)
• Thai: นูร์-ซุลตัน
• Turkish: Nur-Sultan
• Turkmen: Nursultan
• Ukrainian: Нур-Султа́н m (Nur-Sultán)
• Urdu: نور سلطان m (nūr sultān)
• Uyghur: نۇرسۇلتان (nursultan)
• Uzbek: Nur-Sulton
• Vietnamese: Nu-xun-tan
• Yiddish: נור-סולטאַן n (nur-sultan)