Ankara

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈæŋ.kə.ɹə/
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• General-American: /ˈɑːŋ.kə.ɹə/
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Borrowed from Turkish Ankara and Ottoman Turkish آنقره (Ankara), from Byzantine Greek and Ancient Greek Ἄγκυρα (Ánkura), from ἄγκυρα (ánkura, “anchor, hook”) in reference to the bend in the Çölova River before it merges with the Cubuk to become the Ankara but probably also calquing a local name ultimately derived from Hittite 𒌷𒀭𒆪𒉿 (Ankuwa), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h2enk- (“elbow, bend, curve”). The river and province are named for the city. Doublet of Angora, angle, and anchor.

96 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Albanian: Ankaraja — capital of Turkey
• Albanian: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Amharic: አንካራ (ʾänkara) — capital of Turkey
• Arabic: أَنْقَرَة (ʔanqara) — capital of Turkey
• Arabic: أَنْكُورِيَة (ʔankūriya) — capital of Turkey
• Arabic: أنقرة (ʔanqara) — capital of Turkey
• Arabic: أنقرة (ʔangara, ʔanqara) — capital of Turkey
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܢܩܵܪܵܐ (Anqāra) — capital of Turkey
• Armenian: Անկարա — capital of Turkey
• Asturian: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Asturian: Ancara — capital of Turkey
• Azerbaijani: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Basque: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Belarusian: Анкара́ (Ankará) — capital of Turkey
• Bengali: আঙ্কারা (aṅkara) — capital of Turkey
• Bulgarian: Анка́ра (Ankára) — capital of Turkey
• Burmese: အန်ကာရာမြို့ (ankaramrui.) — capital of Turkey
• Catalan: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Chinese Cantonese: 安卡拉 (on1 kaa1 laai1) — capital of Turkey
• Chinese Mandarin: 安卡拉 (Ānkǎlā) — capital of Turkey
• Czech: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Danish: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Dutch: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Esperanto: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Esperanto: Ankaro — capital of Turkey
• Estonian: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Finnish: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• French: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Galician: Ancara — capital of Turkey
• Georgian: ანკარა (anḳara) — capital of Turkey
• German: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• German: Angora — capital of Turkey
• Greek: Άγκυρα (Ágkyra) — capital of Turkey
• Ancient Greek: Ἄγκῡρα (Ánkūra) — capital of Turkey
• Hebrew: אַנְקָרָה (ánkara) — capital of Turkey
• Hindi: अंकारा (aṅkārā) — capital of Turkey
• Hungarian: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Icelandic: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Ido: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Indonesian: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Interlingua: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Irish: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Italian: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Japanese: アンカラ — capital of Turkey
• Kazakh: Анкара — capital of Turkey
• Khmer: អង់ការ៉ា (ʼɑngkaaraa) — capital of Turkey
• Korean: 앙카라 (Angkara) — capital of Turkey
• Central Kurdish: ئەنقەرە (enqere) — capital of Turkey
• Northern Kurdish: Enqere — capital of Turkey
• Kyrgyz: Анкара — capital of Turkey
• Lao: ອັງກາລາ (ʼang kā lā) — capital of Turkey
• Latin: Ancyra — capital of Turkey
• Latvian: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Lithuanian: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Low German: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Macedonian: Анкара — capital of Turkey
• Malay: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Maltese: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Marathi: अंकारा (aṅkārā) — capital of Turkey
• Mongolian: Анкара — capital of Turkey
• Norwegian Bokmål: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Pashto: انقره (anqara) — capital of Turkey
• Persian: اَنْقَرَه (anqara) — capital of Turkey
• Dari: اَنْقَرَه (anqara) — capital of Turkey
• Iranian Persian: آنْکارا (ânkârâ) — capital of Turkey
• Iranian Persian: اَنْگورِیِه (anguriye) — capital of Turkey
• Iranian Persian: اَنْگورِه (angure) — capital of Turkey
• Polish: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Portuguese: Ancara — capital of Turkey
• Rohingya: Añgkera — capital of Turkey
• Romanian: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Russian: Анкара́ (Ankará) — capital of Turkey
• Serbo-Croatian: А̀нкара — capital of Turkey
• Serbo-Croatian: Ànkara — capital of Turkey
• Sicilian: Àncara — capital of Turkey
• Sicilian: Àncura — capital of Turkey
• Slovak: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Slovene: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Spanish: Angora — capital of Turkey
• Spanish: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Swedish: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Tagalog: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Tajik: Анқара (Anqara) — capital of Turkey
• Tatar: Әнкара (Änqara) — capital of Turkey
• Thai: อังการา (ang-gaa-râa) — capital of Turkey
• Turkish: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Ottoman Turkish: آنقاره (Anḳara) — capital of Turkey
• Turkmen: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Ukrainian: Анкара́ (Ankará) — capital of Turkey
• Urdu: اَن٘قَرَہ (aṅqara) — capital of Turkey
• Uyghur: ئەنقەرە (enqere) — capital of Turkey
• Uzbek: Anqara — capital of Turkey
• Vietnamese: Ăng-ca-ra — capital of Turkey
• Welsh: Ankara — capital of Turkey
• Yiddish: אַנקאַראַ (ankara) — capital of Turkey