Islamabad

See also: Islámábád and Îslamabad

English

Etymology

From Urdu اسلام آباد (islām ābād). Equivalent to Islam +‎ -abad.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɪzˈlɑːməˌbɑːd/, /ɪsˈlɑːməˌbɑːd/, /ɪzˈlæməˌbæd/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Proper noun

Islamabad

The capital city of Pakistan, located within the Islamabad Capital Territory.
The former name of Chittagong, a city in present-day Bangladesh.

Translations

the capital of Pakistan

Albanian: Islamabadi m, Islamabad m (indefinite)
Amharic: ኢስላማባድ (ʾislamabad)
Arabic: إِسْلَام آباد f (ʔislām ʔābād), إِسْلَام أَبَاد f (ʔislām ʔabād)
Armenian: Իսլամաբադ (hy) (Islamabad)
Assamese: ইছলামাবাদ (islamabad)
Azerbaijani: İslamabad
Belarusian: Ісламаба́д m (Islamabád)
Bengali: ইসলামাবাদ (bn) (islamabad)
Bulgarian: Исламаба́д m (Islamabád)
Burmese: အစ္စလာမာဘတ်မြို့ (acca.lamabhatmrui.)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 伊斯蘭堡 / 伊斯兰堡 (ji¹ si¹ laan⁴ bou²)

Mandarin: 伊斯蘭堡 / 伊斯兰堡 (zh) (Yīsīlánbǎo)
Czech: Islámábád (cs) m
Danish: Islamabad n
Dhivehi: އިސްލާމްއާބާދު (islām̊ābādu)
Dutch: Islamabad (nl) n
Esperanto: Islamabado (eo)
Estonian: Islamabad (et)
Finnish: Islamabad (fi)
French: Islamabad (fr)
Georgian: ისლამაბადი (ka) (islamabadi)
German: Islamabad (de) n
Greek: Ισλαμαμπάντ (el) m (Islamampánt)
Gujarati: ઇસ્લામાબાદ (islāmābād)
Hebrew: אסלאמאבאד f (islamabád)
Hindi: इस्लामाबाद m (islāmābād)
Hungarian: Iszlámábád (hu)
Icelandic: Islamabad n
Indonesian: Islamabad
Irish: Islamabad
Japanese: イスラマバード (ja) (Isuramabādo)
Kannada: ಇಸ್ಲಾಮಾಬಾದ್ (islāmābād)
Kashmiri: اِسلام آبادٖ
Kazakh: Исламабад (İslamabad)
Khmer: ឥស្លាម៉ាបាដ (km) (ʼihslaamaabaat)
Korean: 이슬라마바드 (ko) (Iseullamabadeu)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: Îslamabad
Kyrgyz: Исламабад (ky) (İslamabad)
Lao: ອິດສະລາມາບັດ (ʼit sa lā mā bat)
Latvian: Islāmābāda f
Lithuanian: Islamabadas m
Macedonian: Исламабад m (Islamabad)
Malay: Islamabad
Malayalam: ഇസ്ലാമബാദ് (islāmabādŭ)
Marathi: इस्लामाबाद n (islāmābād)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Исламабад (Islamabad)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Islamabad (no) n

Nynorsk: Islamabad n
Odia: ଇସଲାମାବାଦ (isalāmābāda)
Pashto: اسلام آباد m (eslām ābād)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: اِسْلام‌آباد (eslâm-âbâd)
Polish: Islamabad (pl) m
Portuguese: Islamabad (pt) f
Punjabi: ਇਸਲਾਮਾਬਾਦ (isalāmābād)
Romanian: Islamabad (ro)
Russian: Исламаба́д (ru) m (Islamabád)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Исламабад m

Roman: Islamabad m
Sindhi: اسلام آباد
Sinhalese: ඉස්ලාමාබාද් (islāmābād)
Slovak: Islamabad m, Islámábád m
Slovene: Islamabad m
Spanish: Islamabad (es)
Swedish: Islamabad (sv) n
Tagalog: Islamabad
Tajik: Исломобод (Islomobod)
Tamil: இஸ்லாமாபாத் (islāmāpāt)
Tatar: Исламабад (İslamabad)
Telugu: ఇస్లామాబాద్ (islāmābād)
Thai: อิสลามาบาด (ì-sà-laa-maa-bàat)
Tibetan: ཨི་སི་ལམ་བོ (i si lam bo)
Turkish: İslamabad (tr)
Turkmen: Islamabad
Ukrainian: Ісламаба́д (uk) m (Islamabád)
Urdu: اِسْلام آباد m (islām ābād)
Uyghur: ئىسلامئاباد (islam'abad)
Uzbek: Islomobod
Vietnamese: I-xla-ma-bát
Western Panjabi: اسلام آباد
Yiddish: איסלאַמאַבאַד n (islamabad)

Danish

Proper noun

Islamabad

Islamabad (the capital city of Pakistan)

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /i.slaˈma.bat/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -abat
Syllabification: I‧sla‧ma‧bad

Proper noun

Islamabad m inan (related adjective islamabadzki)

Islamabad (the capital city of Pakistan)

Declension

Declension of Islamabad

	singular
nominative	Islamabad
genitive	Islamabadu
dative	Islamabadowi
accusative	Islamabad
instrumental	Islamabadem
locative	Islamabadzie
vocative	Islamabadzie

Derived terms

nouns

islamabadczyk
islamabadka

References

Islamabad in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Islamabade (uncommon)

Proper noun

Islamabad f

Islamabad (the capital city of Pakistan)

Slovak

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈislamabat]

Proper noun

Islamabad m inan (genitive singular Islamabadu, declension pattern of dub)

Islamabad (the capital city of Pakistan)

References

“Islamabad”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /islamaˈbad/ [is.la.maˈβ̞að̞]
Rhymes: -ad
Syllabification: Is‧la‧ma‧bad

Proper noun

Islamabad ?

Islamabad (the capital city of Pakistan)