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

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

Constantinople Strait
Istanbul Strait

Hypernyms

Turkish Strait(s)

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)
Egyptian Arabic: البوسفور‎
Aragonese: Bosforo
Armenian: Բոսֆոր (hy) (Bosfor)
Asturian: Bósforo m, Bósforo
Azerbaijani: Bosfor Boğazı
Bashkir: Босфор (Bosfor)
Basque: Bosforo itsasartea
Belarusian: Басфо́р m (Basfór)
Bengali: বসফরাস প্রণালী (bôsôphôras prôṇalī)
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)
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 (bōsfaṟasŭ)
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

Latin

Proper noun

Bosphorus m sg (genitive Bosphorī); second declension

Alternative form of Bosporus

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

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