قسطنطینیه

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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

Proper noun

قسطنطینیه • (Kostantiniyye)

1. (now historical) Synonym of استانبول, Constantinople (the former capital of the Byzantine Empire and Ottoman Empire).

Descendants

• Turkish: Kostantiniye

References

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