Istanbul

• İstanbul (rare)
• Stambul
• Stamboul

From Turkish İstanbul, from Ottoman Turkish استانبول (İstanbul), a corruption of Byzantine Greek εἰς τὴν Πόλιν (eis tḕn Pólin, “to the City”), which is how Constantinople was referred to by the local Greeks.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪ.stænˈbʊl/, [ˌɪ.stæmˈbʊɫ]

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɪ.stɑːn.bʊl/, [ˈɪ.stɑːmˌbʊɫ]

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ɪsˈtɑːn.bʊl/, [ɪsˈt̪äːm.bʊl]

Istanbul

2. A Turkish city, and the largest European city by population, which was the last capital of the Ottoman Empire and the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire).
   • 2014 July 21, Ivan Watson, “Loud, anarchic, quirky: My love affair with Istanbul”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 20 February 2026:

     Nearly a century ago, my grandfather passed through Istanbul en route to Europe along with hordes of other White Russians fleeing the Russian civil war.

3. A province in Turkey.

• Byzantium, Byzantion, Constantinople (all historical)

• Istanbulite

• Ankara, second largest city and capital of the Republic of Turkey.

• stub nail

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [is.təmˈbul]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [is.tamˈbul]

Istanbul m

1. Istanbul (a city in Turkey)
2. Istanbul (a province in Turkey)

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪstanbul]

Istanbul m inan (relational adjective istanbulský, demonym Istanbulan)

1. Istanbul (a city in Turkey)

   Synonyms: (former name before 330 CE) Byzantion, (used especially in a historical context) Cařihrad, (former name, 330-1930 CE) Konstantinopol

2. Istanbul (a province in Turkey)

• “Istanbul”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Istanbul”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

From Turkish İstanbul, from Byzantine Greek εἰς τὴν Πόλιν (eis tḕn Pólin, “in the City”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈistanbul/, [ˈisd̥amˌb̥ul]

Istanbul

1. Istanbul (a city in Turkey)
2. Istanbul (a province in Turkey)

• Istanboel
• Stamboel

Borrowed from Turkish İstanbul, corruption of Byzantine Greek εἰς τὴν Πόλιν (eis tḕn Pólin, “to the City”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪs.tɑnˌbul/

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• Hyphenation: Is‧tan‧bul

Istanbul n

1. Istanbul (a city in Turkey)
2. Istanbul (a province in Turkey)

From Turkish İstanbul, from the Byzantine Greek phrase εἰς τὴν Πόλιν (eis tḕn Pólin, “to the City”).

Istanbul

1. Istanbul (a city in Turkey)

• Konstantinopolis
• Miklagarður

From Turkish İstanbul.

• IPA^(key): /ˈistɑnbul/, [ˈis̠tɑ̝mbul]
• Rhymes: -istɑnbul
• Syllabification^(key): Is‧tan‧bul
• Hyphenation^(key): Is‧tan‧bul

Istanbul

1. Istanbul (a city in Turkey)
2. Istanbul (a province in Turkey)

• istanbulilainen (“Istanbulite”)

• IPA^(key): /is.tɑ̃.bul/

Istanbul ?

1. Istanbul (a city in Turkey)
2. Istanbul (a province in Turkey)

• Stambul (archaic)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪs.tamˌbuːl/, (also) /ˈiːs-/, /-tan-/, /-ˌbʊl/ (all combinations possible)

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Istanbul n (proper noun, genitive Istanbuls or (optionally with an article) Istanbul)

1. Istanbul (a city in Turkey)
2. Istanbul (a province in Turkey)

• Istambul

Borrowed from Turkish İstanbul.

• IPA^(key): /ˈis.tam.bul/

Istanbul ?

1. Istanbul (the capital city of Turkey)

   Synonyms: (historical) Costantinopoli, (ancient) Bisanzio

• stambuliota (“from Istanbul”)

• IPA^(key): /ɪs.tamˈbuːl/

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• Rhymes: -uːl

Istanbul

1. Istanbul (the capital city of Turkey)

Istanbul

1. Istanbul (a city in Turkey)
2. Istanbul (a province in Turkey)

Istanbul

1. Istanbul (a city in Turkey)
2. Istanbul (a province in Turkey)

Istanbul f

1. (proscribed) alternative spelling of Istambul

The Portuguese-Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 recommends the use of nativized placenames (instead of unadapted borrowings or partial calques) if these are established in the language. As such, the form Istambul is preferred.

Istanbul

1. Istanbul (a city in Turkey)
2. Istanbul (a province in Turkey)

• IPA^(key): /ǐstanbul/
• Hyphenation: I‧stan‧bul

Ìstanbul m inan (Cyrillic spelling Ѝстанбул)

1. Istanbul (a city in Turkey)
2. Istanbul (a province in Turkey)

• Càrigrād
• Konstantinòpolj / Konstantinòpol

• IPA^(key): /íːstanbul/

Ȋstanbul m inan

1. Istanbul (a city in Turkey)
2. Istanbul (a province in Turkey)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	Ístanbul
genitive	Ístanbula
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Ístanbul
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Ístanbula
dative (dajȃlnik)	Ístanbulu
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Ístanbul
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Ístanbulu
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Ístanbulom

• Ístanbulčan / Ístanbulčanka
• ístanbulski

Istanbul n (genitive Istanbuls)

1. Istanbul (a city in Turkey)
2. Istanbul (a province in Turkey)

• (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /ʔistanbul/ [ʔɪs.t̪amˈbul]
• Rhymes: -ul
• Syllabification: Is‧tan‧bul

Istanbul (Sulat Sūg spelling اِسْتَنْبُلْ)

1. Istanbul

Istanbul

1. misspelling of İstanbul