क़ुस्तुंतुनिया

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قسطنطنیه (qustantaniya), from Arabic الْقُسْطَنْطِينِيَّة (al-qusṭanṭīniyya).

Pronunciation

  • (Delhi) IPA(key): /qʊs.t̪ʊn.t̪ʊ.nɪ.jɑː/, [qʊs.t̪ʊ̃n̪.t̪ʊ.ni.jäː], /kʊs.t̪ʊn.t̪ʊ.nɪ.jɑː/, [kʊs.t̪ʊ̃n̪.t̪ʊ.ni.jäː]
  • Hyphenation: क़ुस्‧तुं‧तु‧नि‧या

Proper noun

क़ुस्तुंतुनिया • (qustuntuniyā) m (Urdu spelling قسطنطنیہ)

  1. (historical) 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)

Declension

This proper noun needs an inflection-table template.

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