Kustantiniyah

Malay

Etymology

From Arabic الْقُسْطَنْطِينِيَّة (al-qusṭanṭīniyya). Its Jawi form قسطنطنيه is attested as far back as 1903 in a correspondence using the Malay language between Hashim Jalilul Alam of Brunei and his Ottoman contemporary Abdul Hamid II.[1]

Proper noun

Kustantiniyah (Jawi spelling قسطنطنيه)

  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)

References

  1. ^ Ismail Hakkı Kadı; Peacock, A.C.S. (2019). "2: Royal Correspondence and Appeals for Help, 1824–1905". Ottoman-Southeast Asian Relations: Sources from the Ottoman Archives. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. pgs 75–327. →ISBN.
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