Stamboul

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English

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Etymology

From variant forms of Ottoman Turkish استانبول (İstanbul), q.v. Compare Scandaroon for Iskenderun.

Proper noun

Stamboul

  1. (archaic) Synonym of Istanbul (a city in Turkey).
    • 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XXIV, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., , →OCLC:
      If you have a fancy for anything in that line, away with you, sir, to the bazaars of Stamboul without delay, and lay out in extensive slave-purchases some of that spare cash you seem at a loss to spend satisfactorily here.
    • 1869, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress; , Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company. , →OCLC, page 367:
      The place is crowded with people all the time, and as the gay-colored Eastern fabrics are lavishly displayed before every shop, the great Bazaar of Stamboul is one of the sights that are worth seeing.