Astana

See also: Astaná

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Kazakh Астана (Astana), meaning capital, from Classical Persian آستانه (āstāna).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əsˈtɑːnə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /æsˈtɑːnə/

Proper noun

Astana

2. The capital city of Kazakhstan.
   • 2014 July 1, Frank Jacobs, “Welcome to Stanistan”, in Foreign Policy‎^[1], archived from the original on 3 August 2023:

     At a signing ceremony in the Kazakh capital, Astana, on May 29, the presidents of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan ratified the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) into existence. An EEU modeled on the European Union was first mooted back in 1994 by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, but took off only after his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, seized upon its potential as a Moscow-centered, Asia-oriented alternative to the EU.

Synonyms

• Akmoly/Akmolinsky prikaz (the settlement founded in 1830)
• Akmolinsk (town status, 1832–)
• Tselinograd (1961–)
• Akmola (1992–1998; capital since 1997)
• Aqmola
• Nur-Sultan (2019–2022)

Translations

the capital city of Kazakhstan — see also Nur-Sultan,‎ Akmola,‎ Akmolinsk

• Afrikaans: Astana
• Albanian: Astana f
• Amharic: አስታና (ʾästana)
• Arabic: أَسْتَانَا f (ʔastānā)
• Armenian: Աստանա (Astana)
• Asturian: Astaná (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Astana (az)
• Basque: Astana (eu)
• Belarusian: Астана́ f (Astaná)
• Bengali: আস্তানা (bn) (astana)
• Bulgarian: Астана̀ f (Astanà)
• Catalan: Astanà
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿斯塔納 / 阿斯塔纳 (zh) (Āsītǎnà)

• Czech: Astana (cs) f
• Danish: Astana n
• Dutch: Astana n
• Esperanto: Astano (eo)
• Estonian: Astana (et)
• Finnish: Astana (fi)
• French: Astana (fr) f
• Georgian: ასტანა (ka) (asṭana)
• German: Astana (de) n
• Greek: Αστανά f (Astaná)
• Hebrew: אסטנה f (astana)
• Hindi: अस्ताना m (astānā)
• Hungarian: Asztana (hu)
• Indonesian: Astana (id)
• Japanese: アスタナ (ja) (Asutana)
• Kazakh:

  Arabic: استانا (kk)

  Cyrillic: Астана (Astana)

  Latin: Astana (kk)

• Khmer: អាស្តាណា (km) (ʼaastaanaa)
• Korean: 아스타나 (ko) (Aseutana)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئاستانا (astana)

  Northern Kurdish: Astana

• Kyrgyz: Астана (ky) (Astana)
• Latvian: Astana f
• Lithuanian: Astana f
• Macedonian: Аста́на f (Astána)
• Malay: Astana
• Maltese: Astana
• Marathi: अस्ताना n (astānā)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Астана (Astana)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Astana n

  Nynorsk: please add this translation if you can

• Persian: آستانه (fa) (âstâne)
• Polish: Astana (pl) f
• Portuguese: Astana (pt) f
• Romanian: Astana (ro)
• Russian: Астана́ (ru) f (Astaná)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Астана f

  Latin: Astana f

• Slovak: Astana (sk) f
• Slovene: Astana f
• Spanish: Astaná (es) f
• Swedish: Astana (sv) n
• Tajik: Остона (Ostona)
• Tatar: Астана (Astana)
• Thai: อัสตานา (th) (âs-dtaa-naa)
• Turkish: Astana (tr)
• Turkmen: Astana
• Ukrainian: Астана́ (uk) f (Astaná)
• Urdu: آستانہ (ur) m (āstānā)
• Uyghur: ئاستانا (astana)
• Uzbek: Ostona
• Vietnamese: A-xta-na
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Astana

1. Astana (the capital city of Kazakhstan)

Related terms

• Astanaan
• Astanaans

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈastana]

Proper noun

Astana f (relational adjective astanský)

1. Astana (the capital city of Kazakhstan)

Declension

Declension of Astana (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Astana
genitive	Astany
dative	Astaně
accusative	Astanu
vocative	Astano
locative	Astaně
instrumental	Astanou

Further reading

• “Astana”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Estonian

Proper noun

Astana

1. Astana (the capital city of Kazakhstan)

Kazakh

Alternative scripts

Arabic	[Term?]
Cyrillic	Astana
Latin	[Term?]

Proper noun

Astana

1. Latin spelling of Астана (Astana, “Astana”).

Lithuanian

Proper noun

Astana f

1. Astana (the capital city of Kazakhstan)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Kazakh Астана (Astana, “capital”), from Persian آستانه (âstâne).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /asˈta.na/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: As‧ta‧na

Proper noun

Astana f

1. Astana (the capital city of Kazakhstan)

   Synonym: Nur-Sułtan

Declension

Declension of Astana

	singular
nominative	Astana
genitive	Astany
dative	Astanie
accusative	Astanę
instrumental	Astaną
locative	Astanie
vocative	Astano

Derived terms

adjective

• astański

nouns

• astanka
• astańczyk

Further reading

• “Astana”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Kazakh Астана (Astana), from Persian آستانه.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /asˈtɐ̃.nɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /asˈtɐ̃.nɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /aʃˈtɐ̃.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /asˈtɐ.na/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐʃˈtɐ.nɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐʃˈtɐ.nɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐʃˈta.nɐ/

• Hyphenation: As‧ta‧na

Proper noun

Astana f

1. Astana (the capital city of Kazakhstan)

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Kazakh Астана (Astana), from Classical Persian آسْتَانَه (āstāna, “a threshold”). Doublet of asitane.

Proper noun

Astana

1. Astana (the capital city of Kazakhstan)