Istanbul

专有名词
中文释义
英 /ɪ.stænˈbʊl/|[ˌɪ.stæmˈbʊɫ]    美 /ˈɪ.stɑːn.bʊl/|[ˈɪ.stɑːmˌbʊɫ]

英文释义

专有名词
  1. 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).
    — 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.
  2. A province in Turkey.

词形变化

İstanbul alternative Stambul alternative Stamboul alternative

词源

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.
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