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Astana
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Astaná
English
Etymology
en kk Астана, meaning capital, from en fa-cls آستانه āstāna.
Pronunciation
en /əsˈtɑːnə/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Astana.wav Southern England
en /æsˈtɑːnə/ US
Proper noun
en Q1520 en capital city c/Kazakhstan.
en Frank Jacobs Welcome to Stanistan w:Foreign Policy https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/07/01/welcome-to-stanistan/ 2014-07-01 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20251021010603/https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/07/01/welcome-to-stanistan/ 21 October 2025
en metonym The Kazakhstan government.
Synonyms
en Akmoly/en Akmolinsky prikaz (the settlement founded in 1830)
en Akmolinsk (town status, 1832–)
en Tselinograd (1961–)
en Akmola (1992–1998; capital since 1997)
en Aqmola
en Nur-Sultan (2019–2022)
Derived terms
en Astanan
Translations
the capital city of Kazakhstan Nur-Sultan Akmola Akmolinsk
Afrikaans: af Astana
Albanian: sq Astana f
Amharic: am አስታና
Arabic: ar أَسْتَانَا f
Armenian: hy Աստանա
Asturian: ast Astaná
Azerbaijani: az Astana
Basque: eu Astana
Belarusian: be Астана́ f
Bengali: bn আস্তানা
Bulgarian: bg Астана̀ f
Catalan: ca Astanà
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 阿斯塔納 Āsītǎnà
Czech: cs Astana f
Danish: da Astana n
Dutch: nl Astana n
Esperanto: eo Astano
Estonian: et Astana
Finnish: fi Astana
French: fr Astana f
Georgian: ka ასტანა
German: de Astana n
Greek: el Αστανά f
Hebrew: he אסטנה f astana
Hindi: hi अस्ताना m
Hungarian: hu Asztana
Indonesian: id Astana
Japanese: ja アスタナ Asutana
Kazakh:
Arabic: kk استانا
Cyrillic: kk Астана
Latin: kk Astana
Khmer: km អាស្តាណា
Korean: ko ^아스타나
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ckb ئاستانا
Northern Kurdish: kmr Astana
Kyrgyz: ky Астана
Latvian: lv Astana f
Lithuanian: lt Astana f
Macedonian: mk Аста́на f
Malay: ms Astana
Maltese: mt Astana
Marathi: mr अस्ताना n
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn Астана
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Astana n
Nynorsk: nn
Persian: fa آستانه âstâne
Polish: pl Astana f
Portuguese: pt Astana f
Romanian: ro Astana
Russian: ru Астана́ f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Астана f
Latin: sh Astana f
Slovak: sk Astana f
Slovene: sl Astana f
Spanish: es Astaná f
Swedish: sv Astana n
Tajik: tg Остона
Tatar: tt Астана
Thai: th อัสตานา
Turkish: tr Astana
Turkmen: tk Astana
Ukrainian: uk Астана́ f
Urdu: ur آستانہ m āstānā
Uyghur: ug ئاستانا
Uzbek: uz Ostona
Vietnamese: vi A-xta-na
Yiddish: yi
Afrikaans
af:
Proper noun
af capital city c/Kazakhstan Astana
Related terms
af Astanaan
af Astanaans
Czech
cs:
Pronunciation
Proper noun
f astanský
cs capital city c/Kazakhstan Astana
Declension
f.sg
Further reading
Estonian
Proper noun
et proper noun
et the <<capital city>> of <<c/Kazakhstan>> Astana
Kazakh
Proper noun
kk proper noun
kk Latin Астана Astana.
Lithuanian
lt basic stub
lt:
Proper noun
f
lt capital city c/Kazakhstan Astana
Polish
pl:
Etymology
pl :bor kk:Астана<t:capital><ety:uder<fa:آستانه<tr:âstâne>>> 2 1
Pronunciation
Pl-Astana.ogg
Proper noun
f
pl the <<capital city>> of <<c/Kazakhstan>> Astana
pl Nur-Sułtan
Declension
s
Derived terms
pl adjective astański
pl nouns astańczyk astanka
Further reading
Portuguese
Etymology
pt :bor kk:Астана<ety:uder<fa:آستانه>> 2 1
Pronunciation
pt As ta na
Proper noun
f
pt the <<capital city>> of <<c/Kazakhstan>> Astana
Turkish
tr:
Etymology
tr :bor kk:Астана<ety:uder<fa-cls:آسْتَانَه<t:a threshold>>> 2 1 asitane
Proper noun
tr capital city c/Kazakhstan Astana