Bosphorus

English

The Bosphorus from space.

The Turkish Straits.

Alternative forms

• Bosporus

Etymology

From medieval Latin Bosphorus, from Ancient Greek Βόσπορος (Bósporos).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒs.fəɹ.əs/, /ˈbɒs.pəɹ.əs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑs.fɚ.əs/, /ˈbɑs.pɚ.əs/
• Rhymes: -ɒspəɹəs
• Hyphenation: Bos‧pho‧rus

Proper noun

the Bosphorus

2. The narrow strait beside Istanbul, Turkey connecting the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, the northern end of the Turkish Straits connecting the Black Sea with the Aegean and Mediterranean.
   • 1950 July, J. C. Mertens, “By the "Taurus Express" to Baghdad”, in Railway Magazine, page 435:

     The 20-min. crossing of the Bosphorus by ferry steamer from the Golden Horn, the busy river-fed harbour that divides old and new Istanbul on the European side of the Bosphorus, was a pleasure in itself.

Synonyms

• Constantinople Strait
• Istanbul Strait

Hypernyms

• Turkish Strait(s)

Derived terms

• cross the Bosphorus
• swim the Bosphorus

 

Related terms

• Dardanelles

Translations

a strait that passes through Istanbul

• Afrikaans: Bosporus, Istanboel-straat
• Albanian: Bosfori
• Amharic: የቦስፖሮስ ወሽመጥ (yäbosporos wäšmäṭ)
• Arabic: مَضِيق بُوسْفُور m (maḍīq busfūr), اَلْبُوسْفُور m (al-busfūr), اَلْبُسْفُورْ m (al-busfūr)

  Egyptian Arabic: البوسفور

  Hijazi Arabic: البُسْفور m (al-busfōr)

• Aragonese: Bosforo
• Armenian: Բոսֆոր (hy) (Bosfor)
• Asturian: Bósforu m
• Azerbaijani: Bosfor Boğazı
• Bashkir: Босфор
• Basque: Bosforo itsasartea
• Belarusian: Басфо́р m (Basfór)
• Bengali: বসফরাস প্রণালী (bośphoraś pronali)
• Breton: Bosfor
• Bulgarian: Босфо́р m (Bosfór)
• Burmese: ဘော့စ်ဖရပ် ရေလက်ကြား (bhauc.hpa.rap relakkra:)
• Catalan: Bòsfor m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 博斯普魯斯海峽／博斯普鲁斯海峡 (zh) (Bósīpǔlǔsī hǎixiá)

• Chuvash: Босфор (Bosfor)
• Czech: Bospor (cs) m
• Danish: Bosporus, Bosporusstrædet n (definite form)
• Dutch: Bosporus
• Esperanto: Bosporo
• Estonian: Bosporus
• Extremaduran: Bósforu
• Finnish: Bosporinsalmi (fi)
• French: Bosphore (fr) m
• Galician: Bósforo m
• Georgian: ბოსფორი (bospori), ბოსფორის სრუტე (bosporis sruṭe)
• German: Bosporus (de) m
• Greek: Βόσπορος (el) m (Vósporos)

  Ancient: Βόσπορος m (Bósporos)

• Hebrew: בּוֹסְפּוֹרוּס m (bosporus)
• Hindi: बोस्पोरुस जलसन्धि (bosporus jalsandhi)
• Hungarian: Boszporusz (hu)
• Icelandic: Bosporussund
• Indonesian: Selat Bosporus
• Irish: an Bhosparais f
• Italian: Bosforo (it) m
• Japanese: ボスフォラス海峡 (Bosuporasu kaikyō)
• Javanese: Selat Bosporus
• Kannada: ಬಾಸ್ಪೋರಸ್ ಕೊಲ್ಲಿ (bāspōras kolli)
• Karakalpak: Bosfor
• Kazakh: Босфор бұғазы (Bosfor būğazy)
• Korean: 보스포루스 해협 (Boseuporuseu haehyeop)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Tengava Stenbolê, Bosfor

• Kyrgyz: Босфор (Bosfor)
• Lao: ຊ່ອງແຄບອິສະຕັນບູນ (sǭng khǣp ʼi sa tan būn), ຊ່ອງແຄບໂບສະໂຟໂລດ (sǭng khǣp bō sa fō lōt)
• Latin: Bosporus, Bosporus Thracius m
• Latvian: Bosfors
• Lithuanian: Bosforo sąsiauris, Bosforas
• Low German: Bosporus
• Luxembourgish: Bosporus
• Macedonian: Босфор m (Bosfor)
• Malay: Selat Bosphorus
• Malayalam: ബോസ്ഫറസ് (bōsphaṟasŭ)
• Maltese: Bosforu m
• Marathi: बोस्फोरस (bosphoras)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Bosporos n

  Nynorsk: Bosporos n

• Occitan: Bosfòr m
• Persian: تنگه بسفر (tange-ye bosfor)
• Polish: Bosfor (pl) m
• Portuguese: Bósforo m
• Punjabi: ਬਾਸਫੋਰਸ ਸਟ੍ਰੇਟ (bāsphoras saṭreṭ)
• Romanian: Bosfor
• Russian: Босфо́р (ru) m (Bosfór)
• Scottish Gaelic: Bòsfaras f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Босфор m, Боспор m

  Roman: Bosfor m, Bospor (sh) m

• Sicilian: Bosfuru
• Slovak: Bospor (sk) m
• Slovene: Bospor (sl) m
• Somali: Boosfoor
• Spanish: Bósforo m
• Swahili: Bosporus
• Swedish: Bosporen (sv)
• Tagalog: Bosporus
• Tajik: Босфор (Bosfor)
• Tamil: பொசுபோரசு (pocupōracu)
• Tatar: Босфор бугазы (Bosfor buğazı), Истанбул бугазы (İstanbul buğazı)
• Telugu: బోస్ఫొరస్ జలసంధి (bōsphoras jalasandhi)
• Thai: ช่องแคบบอสฟอรัส (chông kâep bòtforrát)
• Turkish: İstanbul Boğazı (tr)
• Ukrainian: Босфо́р m (Bosfór)
• Urdu: آبنائے باسفورس
• Uyghur: ئىستانبۇل بوغازى (istanbul boghazi)
• Uzbek: Bosfor
• Vietnamese: eo biển Bosporus, eo biển Bospho
• Welsh: Bosphorus
• West Frisian: Bosporus
• Western Panjabi: باسفورس (bāsfors)

Latin

Proper noun

Bosphorus m sg (genitive Bosphorī); second declension

1. Alternative form of Bosporus

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Bosphorus
Genitive	Bosphorī
Dative	Bosphorō
Accusative	Bosphorum
Ablative	Bosphorō
Vocative	Bosphore

Descendants

• Asturian: Bósforu
• Catalan: Bòsfor
• French: Bosphore
• Galician: Bósforo
• Italian: Bosforo
• Portuguese: Bósforo
• Romanian: Bosfor
• Spanish: Bósforo