Ankara

See also: Ankarą and ankara

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Etymology 1

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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæŋ.kə.ɹə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːŋ.kə.ɹə/
• Hyphenation: An‧ka‧ra

Proper noun

Ankara

2. The capital city of Turkey and the capital of Ankara Province.
   • 2025 March 17, Andrew Marantz, “The Battle for the Bros”, in The New Yorker‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 18 March 2025:

     He was born in New Jersey and grew up mostly in Ankara and Istanbul, in an upper-middle-class family, spending summers with relatives in the U.S. and watching a lot of American TV.

3. (metonymic) The Turkish government.
5. A province and metropolitan municipality in central Turkey around the city.
7. A small river in Ankara Province, Turkey near the city, a tributary of the Sakarya.

Synonyms

• Angora (historical)

Translations

capital of Turkey

• Afrikaans: Ankara
• Albanian: Ankaraja f (definite), Ankara f (indefinite)
• Amharic: አንካራ (ʾänkara)
• Arabic: أَنْقَرَة f (ʔanqara), أَنْكُورِيَة f (ʔankūriya) (archaic)

  Egyptian Arabic: أنقرة f (ʔanqara)

  Hijazi Arabic: أنقرة f (ʔangara, ʔanqara)

• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܢܩܵܪܵܐ f (Anqāra)

• Armenian: Անկարա (hy) (Ankara)
• Asturian: Ankara (ast), Ancara (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Ankara (az)
• Basque: Ankara (eu)
• Belarusian: Анкара́ f (Ankará)
• Bengali: আঙ্কারা (aṅkara)
• Bulgarian: Анка́ра (bg) f (Ankára)
• Burmese: အန်ကာရာမြို့ (ankaramrui.)
• Catalan: Ankara (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 安卡拉 (on¹ kaa¹ laai¹)

  Mandarin: 安卡拉 (zh) (Ānkǎlā)

• Czech: Ankara (cs) f
• Danish: Ankara n
• Dutch: Ankara (nl) n
• Esperanto: Ankara (eo), Ankaro (eo)
• Estonian: Ankara (et)
• Finnish: Ankara (fi)
• French: Ankara (fr) f
• Galician: Ancara (gl)
• Georgian: ანკარა (ka) (anḳara)
• German: Ankara (de) n, Angora (de) n (especially formerly)
• Greek: Άγκυρα (el) f (Ágkyra)

  Ancient Greek: Ἄγκῡρα f (Ánkūra)

• Hebrew: אַנְקָרָה f (ánkara)
• 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 (Ankara)
• Khmer: អង់ការ៉ា (km) (ʼɑngkaaraa)
• Korean: 앙카라 (ko) (Angkara)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئەنقەرە (ckb) (enqere)

  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
• Marathi: अंकारा n (aṅkārā)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Анкара (Ankara)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Ankara (no) n

• Pashto: انقره f (anqara)
• Persian:

  Classical Persian: اَنْقَرَه (anqara)

  Dari: اَنْقَرَه (anqara)

  Iranian Persian: آنْکارا (fa) (ânkârâ), اَنْگورِیِه (anguriye), اَنْگورِه (fa) (angure)

• Polish: Ankara (pl) f
• Portuguese: Ancara (pt) f
• Rohingya: Añgkera
• Romanian: Ankara (ro) f
• Russian: Анкара́ (ru) f (Ankará)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: А̀нкара f

  Latin: Ànkara (sh) f

• Sicilian: Àncara f, Àncura f
• Slovak: Ankara (sk) f
• Slovene: Ankara f
• Spanish: Angora (es) f, Ankara (es)
• Swedish: Ankara (sv) n
• Tagalog: Ankara
• Tajik: Анқара (Anqara)
• Tatar: Әнкара (Änqara)
• Thai: อังการา (ang-gaa-râa)
• Turkish: Ankara (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: آنقاره (Anḳara)

• Turkmen: Ankara
• Ukrainian: Анкара́ (uk) f (Ankará)
• Urdu: اَن٘قَرَہ m (aṅqara)
• Uyghur: ئەنقەرە (enqere)
• Uzbek: Anqara
• Vietnamese: Ăng-ca-ra
• Welsh: Ankara
• Yiddish: אַנקאַראַ n (ankara)

Etymology 2

Noun

Ankara (uncountable)

1. A West African fabric.

References

• "Ankara", New World Encyclopedia.

Anagrams

• Arakan, Kanara, Nakara, Naraka

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Ankara

1. Ankara (the capital city of Turkey and the capital of Ankara Province)
2. Ankara (a province and metropolitan municipality in central Turkey around the city)

Related terms

• Ankarioot
• Ankarioties

Azerbaijani

Other scripts

Cyrillic		Анкара
Arabic

Proper noun

Ankara

1. Ankara (the capital city of Turkey and the capital of Ankara Province)
2. Ankara (a province and metropolitan municipality in central Turkey around the city)

Declension

Declension of Ankara

	singular	plural
nominative	Ankara	Ankaralar
definite accusative	Ankaranı	Ankaraları
dative	Ankaraya	Ankaralara
locative	Ankarada	Ankaralarda
ablative	Ankaradan	Ankaralardan
definite genitive	Ankaranın	Ankaraların

Possessive forms of Ankara

	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	Ankaram	Ankaralarım
sənin (“your”)	Ankaran	Ankaraların
onun (“his/her/its”)	Ankarası	Ankaraları
bizim (“our”)	Ankaramız	Ankaralarımız
sizin (“your”)	Ankaranız	Ankaralarınız
onların (“their”)	Ankarası or Ankaraları	Ankaraları
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	Ankaramı	Ankaralarımı
sənin (“your”)	Ankaranı	Ankaralarını
onun (“his/her/its”)	Ankarasını	Ankaralarını
bizim (“our”)	Ankaramızı	Ankaralarımızı
sizin (“your”)	Ankaranızı	Ankaralarınızı
onların (“their”)	Ankarasını or Ankaralarını	Ankaralarını
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	Ankarama	Ankaralarıma
sənin (“your”)	Ankarana	Ankaralarına
onun (“his/her/its”)	Ankarasına	Ankaralarına
bizim (“our”)	Ankaramıza	Ankaralarımıza
sizin (“your”)	Ankaranıza	Ankaralarınıza
onların (“their”)	Ankarasına or Ankaralarına	Ankaralarına
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	Ankaramda	Ankaralarımda
sənin (“your”)	Ankaranda	Ankaralarında
onun (“his/her/its”)	Ankarasında	Ankaralarında
bizim (“our”)	Ankaramızda	Ankaralarımızda
sizin (“your”)	Ankaranızda	Ankaralarınızda
onların (“their”)	Ankarasında or Ankaralarında	Ankaralarında
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	Ankaramdan	Ankaralarımdan
sənin (“your”)	Ankarandan	Ankaralarından
onun (“his/her/its”)	Ankarasından	Ankaralarından
bizim (“our”)	Ankaramızdan	Ankaralarımızdan
sizin (“your”)	Ankaranızdan	Ankaralarınızdan
onların (“their”)	Ankarasından or Ankaralarından	Ankaralarından
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	Ankaramın	Ankaralarımın
sənin (“your”)	Ankaranın	Ankaralarının
onun (“his/her/its”)	Ankarasının	Ankaralarının
bizim (“our”)	Ankaramızın	Ankaralarımızın
sizin (“your”)	Ankaranızın	Ankaralarınızın
onların (“their”)	Ankarasının or Ankaralarının	Ankaralarının

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈaŋkara]

Proper noun

Ankara f (relational adjective ankarský, demonym Ankařan)

1. Ankara (the capital city of Turkey and the capital of Ankara Province)
2. Ankara (a province and metropolitan municipality in central Turkey around the city)

Declension

Declension of Ankara (sg-only hard feminine)

	singular
nominative	Ankara
genitive	Ankary
dative	Ankaře
accusative	Ankaru
vocative	Ankaro
locative	Ankaře
instrumental	Ankarou

Further reading

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

Dagbani

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Ankara

1. Accra (the capital city of Ghana)

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Turkish Ankara. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːn.ˌkaː.raː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: An‧ka‧ra

Proper noun

Ankara n

1. Ankara (the capital city of Turkey and the capital of Ankara Province)
2. Ankara (a province and metropolitan municipality in central Turkey around the city)

French

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) Angora

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish Ankara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ka.ʁa/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Proper noun

Ankara f

1. Ankara (the capital city of Turkey and the capital of Ankara Province)
2. Ankara (a province and metropolitan municipality in central Turkey around the city)

   Holonym: Turquie

Related terms

• Ancyre

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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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 and the capital of Ankara Province)
2. Ankara (a province and metropolitan municipality in central Turkey around the city)

Hausa

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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)

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish Ankara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒŋkɒrɒ]
• Rhymes: -rɒ
• Hyphenation: An‧ka‧ra

Proper noun

Ankara

1. Ankara (the capital city of Turkey and the capital of Ankara Province)
2. Ankara (a province and metropolitan municipality in central Turkey around the city)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	Ankara	—
accusative	Ankarát	—
dative	Ankarának	—
instrumental	Ankarával	—
causal-final	Ankaráért	—
translative	Ankarává	—
terminative	Ankaráig	—
essive-formal	Ankaraként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Ankarában	—
superessive	Ankarán	—
adessive	Ankaránál	—
illative	Ankarába	—
sublative	Ankarára	—
allative	Ankarához	—
elative	Ankarából	—
delative	Ankaráról	—
ablative	Ankarától	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	Ankaráé	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	Ankaráéi	—

Possessive forms of Ankara

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Ankarám	—
2nd person sing.	Ankarád	—
3rd person sing.	Ankarája	—
1st person plural	Ankaránk	—
2nd person plural	Ankarátok	—
3rd person plural	Ankarájuk	—

Derived terms

• ankarai

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 and the capital of Ankara Province)
2. Ankara (a province and metropolitan municipality in central Turkey around the city)

Further reading

• “Ankara”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Japanese

Romanization

Ankara

1. Rōmaji transcription of アンカラ

Latvian

Proper noun

Ankara f (4 declension)

1. Ankara (the capital city of Turkey and the capital of Ankara Province)
2. Ankara (a province and metropolitan municipality in central Turkey around the city)

Declension

Declension of Ankara (4th)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative	Ankara	—
genitive	Ankaras	—
dative	Ankarai	—
accusative	Ankaru	—
instrumental	Ankaru	—
locative	Ankarā	—
vocative	Ankara	—

Lithuanian

Proper noun

Ankara f

1. Ankara (the capital city of Turkey and the capital of Ankara Province)
2. Ankara (a province and metropolitan municipality in central Turkey around the city)

Declension

Declension of Ankara

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

Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aŋˈka.ra/

• Audio:

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

Proper noun

Ankara f

1. Ankara (the capital city of Turkey and the capital of Ankara Province)
2. Ankara (a province and metropolitan municipality in central Turkey around the city)

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 Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Proper noun

Ankara f

1. alternative spelling of Ancara:
   1. Ankara (the capital city of Turkey and the capital of Ankara Province)
   2. Ankara (a province and metropolitan municipality in central Turkey around the city)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Ànkara f (Cyrillic spelling А̀нкара)

1. Ankara (the capital city of Turkey and the capital of Ankara Province)
2. Ankara (a province and metropolitan municipality in central Turkey around the city)

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ankara/, [ˈaŋkara]
• Rhymes: -ara
• Hyphenation: An‧ka‧ra

Proper noun

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

1. Ankara (the capital city of Turkey and the capital of Ankara Province)
2. Ankara (a province and metropolitan municipality in central Turkey around the city)

References

• “Ankara”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /àːnkara/

Proper noun

Ánkara f

1. Ankara (the capital city of Turkey and the capital of Ankara Province)
2. Ankara (a province and metropolitan municipality in central Turkey around the city)

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nominative	Ánkara
genitive	Ánkare
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Ánkara
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Ánkare
dative (dajȃlnik)	Ánkari
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Ánkaro
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Ánkari
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Ánkaro

Related terms

• Ánkarčan / Ánkarčanka
• ánkarski

References

• “Ankara”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “Ankara”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

Spanish

Alternative forms

• Angora

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Ankara f

1. Ankara (the capital city of Turkey and the capital of Ankara Province)
2. Ankara (a province and metropolitan municipality in central Turkey around the city)

Related terms

• angorense

Turkish

Ankara ili

Ankara'nın ilçeleri

Etymology

From 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 Çubuk to become the Ankara but probably also calquing a local name ultimately derived from Hittite [script needed] (Ankuwaš), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eng- (“elbow, bend, curve”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈan.ka.ɾa/, [ˈɑn.kɑ.ɾɑ], [ˈɑŋ.kɑ.ɾɑ]
• IPA^(key): (dialectal) /ˈan.ɡa.ɾa/, [ˈɑŋ.ɡɑ.ɾɑ]

• Audio:

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• Audio:

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Proper noun

Ankara

1. Ankara (the capital city of Turkey and the capital of Ankara Province)
2. (metonymic, colloquial) the Turkish government
3. Ankara (a province and metropolitan municipality in central Turkey around the city)
4. Ankara (a small river in Ankara Province, Turkey near the city, a tributary of the Sakarya)

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

Coordinate terms

provinces of Turkeyedit

• 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

Derived terms

• Ankara kedisi
• Ankaralı