sultan
Turkish
/suɫˈtaːn/
noun
Definitions
- A monarchic title for Sunni Muslim monarchs.
- A noble title for monarch's mother, wifes and children.
- A honorific title for Bektashi saints.
- A breed of chicken originating in Turkey, kept primarily in gardens for ornamental reasons. See:
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish سلطان derived from Arabic سُلْطَان (sultan) derived from Aramaic שולטנא (authority, strength, power).
Origin
Aramaic
שולטנא
Gloss
authority, strength, power
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
力
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- sultan English
- Sultan German
- sultan Dutch, Flemish
- sultanaat Dutch, Flemish
- sultanshoen Dutch, Flemish
- sultan French
- sultanat French
- султа́н Russian
- султан Russian
- sultan Norwegian Bokmål
- sultan Swedish
- sułtan Polish
- sultan Norwegian Nynorsk
- sultan Danish
- سلطان Arabic
- سُلْطَان Arabic
- نُور Arabic
- soudan Old French
- sultan Serbo-Croatian
- султан Serbo-Croatian
- sultan Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- سلطان Persian
- สุลต่าน Thai
- sultāns Latvian
- sultánur Faroese
- сұлтан Kazakh
- סולטן Hebrew (modern)
- שִׁלְטוֹן Hebrew (modern)
- שלטוני Hebrew (modern)
- سلطان Ottoman Turkish
- sultani Swahili
- sultan Maltese
- שׁוּלְטָנָא Aramaic
- שולטנא Aramaic
- सुरताण Old Gujarati
- سلطان fa-cls
- sultaan Afar