Ankara

Ankara

See also: ankara and Ankarą

English

Wikivoyage

Etymology 1

From Turkish Ankara, from Ottoman Turkish آنقره‎ (Ankara), from Ancient Greek Ἄγκυρα (Ánkura), from ἄγκυρα (ánkura, “anchor, hook”), referring to a bend in the river. Ultimately derived from Hittite Ankuwash, probably of similar meaning.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæŋ.kə.ɹə/

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Proper noun

Ankara

1. The capital city of Turkey
2. A river in Turkey

Alternative forms

• Angora (former English spelling)

Translations

capital of Turkey

Albanian: Ankaraja f Amharic: አንካራ (ʾänkara) Arabic: أَنْقَرَة‎ f (ʾanqara), (archaic) أَنْكُورِيَة‎ f (ʾankūriya) Egyptian Arabic: أنقرة‎ f (ʾanqara) Hijazi Arabic: أنقرة‎ f (ʾangara, ʾanqara) Armenian: Անկարա (hy) (Ankara) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܢܩܵܪܵܐ‎ f (Anqāra) Azerbaijani: Ankara (az) Basque: Ankara (eu) Belarusian: Анкара́ f (Ankará) Bengali: আঙ্কারা (aṅkara) Bulgarian: Анка́ра (bg) f (Ankára) Burmese: အန်ကာရာမြို့ (ankara-mrui.) Catalan: Ankara (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 安卡拉 (on1 kaa1 laai1) Mandarin: 安卡拉 (zh) (Ānkǎlā) Czech: Ankara (cs) Danish: Ankara Dutch: Ankara (nl) n Esperanto: Ankara (eo), Ankaro (eo) Estonian: Ankara (et) Finnish: Ankara (fi) French: Ankara (fr) f Galician: Ancara (gl) Georgian: ანკარა (anḳara) German: Ankara (de) n Greek: Άγκυρα (el) f (Ágkyra) Ancient: Ἄγκῡρα f (Ánkūra) Hebrew: אַנְקָרָה‎ f (ankara) Hindi: अंकारा m (aṅkārā) Hungarian: Ankara (hu) Icelandic: Ankara Ido: Ankara Indonesian: Ankara Interlingua: Ankara Irish: Ankara Italian: Ankara (it) f Japanese: アンカラ (ja) (Ankara) Kazakh: Анкара (kk) (Ankara) Khmer: អង់ការ៉ា (km) (ʼɑngkaaraa) Korean: 앙카라 (ko) (Angkara) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: Enqere (ku) Kyrgyz: Анкара (ky) (Ankara) Lao: ອັງກາລາ (ʼang kā lā) Latin: Ancyra (la) f Latvian: Ankara f Lithuanian: Ankara f Low German: Ankara Macedonian: Анкара f (Ankara) Malay: Ankara Maltese: Ankara Mongolian: Cyrillic: Анкара (Ankara) Navajo: Ankʼawa Norwegian: Bokmål: Ankara (no) Ottoman Turkish: آنقاره‎ (anḳara) Pashto: انقره‎ f (anqara) Persian: آنکارا‎ (fa) (ânkârâ), انگوریه‎ (angureye), انگوره‎ (fa) (angure) Polish: Ankara (pl) f Portuguese: Ancara (pt) f Rohingya: Añgkera Romanian: Ankara (ro) Russian: Анкара́ (ru) f (Ankará) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: А̀нкара f Roman: Ànkara (sh) f Sicilian: Àncara f Slovak: Ankara (sk) f Slovene: Ankara f Spanish: Angora (es) f, Ankara (es) Swedish: Ankara (sv) Tagalog: Ankara Tajik: Анқара (Anqara) Tatar: Әнкара (Änkara) Thai: อังการา (ang-gaa-râa) Turkish: Ankara (tr) Turkmen: Ankara Ukrainian: Анкара́ f (Ankará) Urdu: انقرہ‎ m (anqāra) Uyghur: ئەنقەرە‎ (enqere) Uzbek: Anqara Vietnamese: Ăng-ca-ra Welsh: Ankara Yiddish: אַנקאַראַ‎ n (ankara)

Noun

Ankara (uncountable)

1. A West African fabric.

Anagrams

• Arakan, Kanara, Nakara, Naraka

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈaŋkara]

Proper noun

Ankara f

1. Ankara (the capital city of Turkey)

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish Ankara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ka.ʁa/

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Proper noun

Ankara f

1. Ankara (the capital city of Turkey)

   Holonym: Turquie

Related terms

• Ancyre

 

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German

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Ankara n (proper noun, genitive Ankaras or (optionally with an article) Ankara)

1. Ankara (the capital city of Turkey)

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Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔán.kà.rà/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔáŋ.kə̀.rə̀]
• Hyphenation: An‧kà‧r̃à

Proper noun

Ankàr̃à f

1. Accra (the capital city of Ghana)

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Turkish Ankara, ultimately from Ancient Greek Ἄγκυρα (Ánkura), from ἄγκυρα (ánkura, “anchor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anˈkara/
• Hyphenation: An‧ka‧ra

Proper noun

Ankara

1. Ankara: the capital city of Turkey

Further reading

• “Ankara” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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Latvian

Proper noun

Ankara f (4 declension)

1. Ankara (the capital city of Turkey)

Declension

Declension of Ankara (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	Ankara	—
accusative (akuzatīvs)	Ankaru	—
genitive (ģenitīvs)	Ankaras	—
dative (datīvs)	Ankarai	—
instrumental (instrumentālis)	Ankaru	—
locative (lokatīvs)	Ankarā	—
vocative (vokatīvs)	Ankara	—

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Lithuanian

Proper noun

Ankara f

1. Ankara (the capital city of Turkey)

Declension

    declension of Ankara

nominative	Ankara
genitive	Ankaros
dative	Ankarai
accusative	Ankarą
instrumental	Ankara
locative	Ankaroje
vocative	Ankara

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish Ankara, from Ottoman Turkish آنقره‎ (Ankara), from Ancient Greek Ἄγκυρα (Ánkura), from ἄγκυρα (ánkura).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aŋˈka.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: An‧ka‧ra

Proper noun

Ankara f

1. Ankara (the capital city of Turkey)

Declension

Declension of Ankara

	singular
nominative	Ankara
genitive	Ankary
dative	Ankarze
accusative	Ankarę
instrumental	Ankarą
locative	Ankarze
vocative	Ankaro

Derived terms

adjective

• ankarski

 

nouns

• ankarczyk
• ankarka

 

Further reading

• Ankara in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Ankara in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Ankara f

1. Alternative spelling of Ancara

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǎŋkara/
• Hyphenation: An‧ka‧ra

Proper noun

Ànkara f (Cyrillic spelling А̀нкара)

1. Ankara (the capital city of Turkey)

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈankara]

Proper noun

Ankara f (genitive singular Ankary, declension pattern of žena)

1. Ankara (the capital of Turkey)

References

• Ankara in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• Angora

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anˈkaɾa/ [ãŋˈka.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -aɾa
• Syllabification: An‧ka‧ra

Proper noun

Ankara ?

1. Ankara (the capital city of Turkey)

Related terms

• angorense

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Turkish

Ankara ili

Ankara'nın ilçeleri

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish آنقره‎ (Ankara).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɑn.kɑ.ɾɑ], [ˈɑŋ.kɑ.ɾɑ]
• (dialectal) IPA^(key): [ˈɑŋ.ɡɑ.ɾɑ]

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Proper noun

Ankara

1. Ankara (the capital city of Turkey)
2. Ankara (a province of Turkey)

Declension

    declension of Ankara

	singular	plural
nominative	Ankara	Ankaralar / Ankara'lar
accusative	Ankara'yı	Ankaraları / Ankara'ları
dative	Ankara'ya	Ankaralara / Ankara'lara
locative	Ankara'da	Ankaralarda / Ankara'larda
ablative	Ankara'dan	Ankaralardan / Ankara'lardan
genitive	Ankara'nın	Ankaraların / Ankara'ların

    possessive of Ankara

	singular	plural
benim (my)	Ankara'm	Ankaralarım / Ankara'larım
senin (your)	Ankara'n	Ankaraların / Ankara'ların
onun (his/her/its)	Ankara'sı	Ankaraları / Ankara'ları
bizim (our)	Ankara'mız	Ankaralarımız / Ankara'larımız
sizin (your)	Ankara'nız	Ankaralarınız / Ankara'larınız
onların (their)	Ankara'sı / Ankaraları / Ankara'ları	Ankaraları / Ankara'ları

Derived terms

• Ankaralı

See also

• (provinces of Turkey) Adana, Adıyaman, Afyonkarahisar, Ağrı, Aksaray, Amasya, Ankara, Antalya, Ardahan, Artvin, Aydın, Balıkesir, Bartın, Batman, Bayburt, Bilecik, Bingöl, Bitlis, Bolu, Burdur, Bursa, Çanakkale, Çankırı, Çorum, Denizli, Diyarbakır, Düzce, Edirne, Elâzığ, Erzincan, Erzurum, Eskişehir, Gaziantep, Giresun, Gümüşhane, Hakkâri, Hatay, Iğdır, Isparta, İstanbul, İzmir, Kahramanmaraş, Karabük, Karaman, Kars, Kastamonu, Kayseri, Kırıkkale, Kırklareli, Kırşehir, Kilis, Kocaeli, Konya, Kütahya, Malatya, Manisa, Mardin, Mersin, Muğla, Muş, Nevşehir, Niğde, Ordu, Osmaniye, Rize, Sakarya, Samsun, Siirt, Sinop, Sivas, Şanlıurfa, Şırnak, Tekirdağ, Tokat, Trabzon, Tunceli, Uşak, Van, Yalova, Yozgat, Zonguldak ^{(Category: tr:Provinces of Turkey)}