قسطنطینیه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic الْقُسْطَنْطِينِيَّة (al-qusṭanṭīniyya), from Byzantine Greek Κωνσταντινούπολις (Kōnstantinoúpolis, “City of Constantine”).

Proper noun

قسطنطینیه • (Kostantiniyye)

  1. Constantinople (the former name, from 330–1930 C.E., of Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey; the former capital of the Ottoman Empire and of the Byzantine Empire before that; modern استانبول)

Descendants

  • Turkish: Kostantiniye

References

  • Mallouf, Nassif (1856) “Constantinople”, in Dictionnaire français-turc, 2nd edition, Paris: Maisonneuve, page 120
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