Цареград
Ukrainian
Etymology
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
- IPA(key): [t͡sɐreˈɦrad]
See also
Proper noun
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
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Царегра́д Carehrád |
| genitive | Царегра́да Carehráda |
| dative | Царегра́ду Carehrádu |
| accusative | Царегра́д Carehrád |
| instrumental | Царегра́дом Carehrádom |
| locative | Царегра́ду, Царегра́ді Carehrádu, Carehrádi |
| vocative | Царегра́де Carehráde |
Synonyms
- (historical): Константино́поль (Konstantynópolʹ)
- (modern): Стамбу́л (Stambúl)
References
- “Цареград”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)