Istanbul
/ɪ.stænˈbʊl//ˈɪ.stɑːn.bʊl/
- n.
- 伊斯坦布尔
中文释义来自 ECDICT
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Istanbul
词源说明
From Turkish İstanbul, from Ottoman Turkish استانبول (İstanbul), a corruption of Medieval Greek εἰς τὴν Πόλιν (eis tḕn Pólin, “to the City”), which is how Constantinople was referred to by the local Greeks.
释义
专有名词proper noun
- 1A 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).
- 2A province in Turkey.