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Bosphorus

Bosphorus

English

The Bosphorus from space.

The Turkish Straits.

Alternative forms

Bosporus

Proper noun

Bosphorus

(geography) The narrow waterway beside Istanbul 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.

Synonyms

Hypernyms

Turkish Strait(s)

Related terms

Dardanelles

Translations

a strait that passes through Istanbul

Afrikaans: Bosporus, Istanboel-straat
Arabic: مَضِيق بُوسْفُور m ‎(maḍīq busfūr), اَلْبُوسْفُور m ‎(al-busfūr)
Egyptian Arabic: البوسفور
Aragonese: Bosforo
Armenian: Բոսֆոր ‎(Bosfor)
Asturian: Bósforo m, Bósforo
Azeri: Bosfor Boğazı
Bashkir: Босфор ‎(Bosfor)
Basque: Bosforo itsasartea
Belarusian: Басфо́р m ‎(Basfór)
Breton: Bosfor
Bulgarian: Босфо́р m ‎(Bosfór)
Catalan: Bòsfor m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 博斯普魯斯海峽 (zh), 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)
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
Karakalpak: Bosfor
Korean: 보스포루스 해협 ‎(Boseuporuseu haehyeop)
Kurdish: Tengava Stenbolê, Bosfor
Latin: Bosporus, Bosporus Thracius m
Latvian: Bosfors
Lithuanian: Bosforo sąsiauris, Bosforas
Low German: Bosporus
Luxembourgish: Bosporus
Macedonian: Босфор m ‎(Bosfor)
Norwegian: Bosporos
Occitan: Bosfòr m
Old English: Bosporos
Persian: تنگه بسفر ‎(tanga bosfor)
Polish: Bosfor (pl) m
Portuguese: Bósforo m
Romanian: Bosfor
Russian: Босфо́р (ru) m ‎(Bosfór)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: Босфор m, Боспор m

Roman: Bosfor m, Bospor (sh) m
Sicilian: Bosfuru
Slovene: Bospor (sl) m
Spanish: Bósforo m
Swahili: Bosporus
Swedish: Bosporen
Tatar: Босфор бугазы ‎(Bosfor buğazı), Истанбул бугазы ‎(İstanbul buğazı)
Thai: ช่องแคบบอสฟอรัส ‎(chông kâep bòtforrát)
Turkish: İstanbul Boğazı (tr)
Ukrainian: Босфо́р m ‎(Bosfór)
Urdu: آبنائے باسفورس
Uyghur: ئىستانبۇل بوغازى ‎(istanbul boghazi)
Vietnamese: eo biển Bosporus, eo biển Bospho
Welsh: Bosphorus
West Frisian: Bosporus
Western Panjabi: باسفورس

Latin

Proper noun

Bosphorus m ‎(genitive Bosphorī); second declension

Alternative form of Bosporus

Declension

Second declension.

Case	Singular
nominative	Bosphorus
genitive	Bosphorī
dative	Bosphorō
accusative	Bosphorum
ablative	Bosphorō
vocative	Bosphore