name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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Standard Lemma guide
sultan
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Pronunciation
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/ˈsʌltən/
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rhymes with -ʌltən
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CMU ARPABET: S AH1 L T AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Meaning 2
A glacier in Antarctica
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Meaning 3
A village in Azerbaijan.
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Meaning 4
A coastal town in Libya.
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Meaning 5
An unincorporated community in Ontario.
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Meaning 6
A town, village and mountain range in Turkey.
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Meaning 7
A city and river in Washington.
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noun
Meaning 8
The holder of a secular office, formally subordinate to, but de facto the power behind the throne of, the caliph.
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Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 9
A hereditary ruler in various Muslim states (sultanate), varying from petty principalities (as in Yemen), often vassal of a greater ruler, to independent realms, such as Oman, Brunei, Morocco (until 1957) or an empire such as the Turkish Ottoman Empire.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 10
A variant of solitaire, played with two decks of cards.
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Usage: uncountable
Topics: card-games, games
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noun
Meaning 11
A breed of chicken originating in Turkey, kept primarily in gardens for ornamental reasons. See: sultan (chicken)
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 12
the ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former Ottoman Empire)
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Synonyms: grand Turk
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Broader terms: ruler, swayer
Narrower terms: Saladin, Salah-ad-Din Yusuf ibn-Ayyub
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān)bor. Ottoman Turkish سلطانbor. ▲ Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān)der. Middle French sultanbor. ▲ Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān)bor. Medieval Latin sultanusbor. English sultan Borrowed from Middle French sultan or Medieval Latin sultanus, from Ottoman Turkish سلطان (sultan), from Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān, “strength, authority, ruler”). Compare Hebrew שִׁלְטוֹן (shiltón) and סוּלְטָן (sultán). Doublet of soldan.
Across languages
Translations
109 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: سُلْطَان (sulṭān) — office
- Ido: sultanerio — office
- Macedonian: су́лтан (súltan) — office
- Marathi: सुल्तान (sultān) — office
- Russian: султа́н (sultán) — office
- Afar: súltaan — ruler
- Albanian: sultan — ruler
- Amharic: ሱልጣን (sulṭan) — ruler
- Arabic: سُلْطَان (sulṭān) — ruler
- Armenian: սուլթան (sultʻan) — ruler
- Assamese: চুলতান (sulotan) — ruler
- Azerbaijani: soltan — ruler
- Azerbaijani: sultan — ruler
- Bashkir: солтан (soltan) — ruler
- Belarusian: султа́н (sultán) — ruler
- Bengali: সুলতান (śultan) — ruler
- Bulgarian: султа́н (sultán) — ruler
- Burmese: စူလတန် (cula.tan) — ruler
- Burmese: ဆူလတန် (hcula.tan) — ruler
- Catalan: sultà — ruler
- Catalan: soldà — ruler
- Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⴳⵍⵍⵉⴷ (agllid) — ruler
- Chinese Mandarin: 蘇丹 /苏丹 (sūdān) — ruler
- Ngazidja Comorian: sulutwani — ruler
- Ngazidja Comorian: mfaume — ruler
- Crimean Tatar: sultan — ruler
- Czech: sultán — ruler
- Danish: sultan — ruler
- Dutch: sultan — ruler
- Esperanto: sultano — ruler
- Estonian: sultan — ruler
- Faroese: sultánur — ruler
- Finnish: sulttaani — ruler
- French: sultan — ruler
- French: soudan — ruler
- Georgian: სულთანი (sultani) — ruler
- German: Sultan — ruler
- Middle High German: soldan — ruler
- Greek: σουλτάνος (soultános) — ruler
- Gujarati: સરતાણ (sartāṇ) — ruler
- Gujarati: સુલતાન (sultān) — ruler
- Old Gujarati: सुरताण (suratāṇa) — ruler
- Hebrew: סולטאן — ruler
- Hebrew: סֻלְטָאן (sultán) — ruler
- Hindi: सुल्तान (sultān) — ruler
- Hindi: सुलतान (sultān) — ruler
- Hungarian: szultán — ruler
- Icelandic: soldán — ruler
- Ido: sultano — ruler
- Indonesian: sultan — ruler
- Irish: sabhdán — ruler
- Middle Irish: sabdán — ruler
- Italian: sultano — ruler
- Japanese: スルタン (surutan) — ruler
- Javanese: kemangga — ruler
- Kazakh: сұлтан (sūltan) — ruler
- Khmer: ស៊ុលតង់ (sultɑng) — ruler
- Korean: 술탄 (sultan) — ruler
- Northern Kurdish: sultan — ruler
- Kyrgyz: султан (sultan) — ruler
- Lao: ສຸລະຕານ (su la tān) — ruler
- Latin: sultanus — ruler
- Latvian: sultāns — ruler
- Lithuanian: sultonas — ruler
- Macedonian: су́лтан (súltan) — ruler
- Maguindanao: sulutan — ruler
- Malay: sultan — ruler
- Maltese: sultan — ruler
- Manx: sultan — ruler
- Maranao: solotan — ruler
- Marathi: सुल्तान (sultān) — ruler
- Middle English: soudan — ruler
- Mongolian: султан (sultan) — ruler
- Norwegian Bokmål: sultan — ruler
- Norwegian Nynorsk: sultan — ruler
- Pashto: سلطان (soltān) — ruler
- Dari: سُلْطَان (sultān) — ruler
- Iranian Persian: سُلْطان (soltân) — ruler
- Polish: sułtan — ruler
- Portuguese: sultão — ruler
- Romanian: sultan — ruler
- Russian: султа́н (sultán) — ruler
- Serbo-Croatian: су̀лта̄н — ruler
- Serbo-Croatian: sùltān — ruler
- Slovak: sultán — ruler
- Slovene: sultan — ruler
- Soqotri: سَطَهَن (sáṭahan) — ruler
- Spanish: sultán — ruler
- Swahili: sultani — ruler
- Swedish: sultan — ruler
- Tagalog: sultan — ruler
- Tajik: султон (sulton) — ruler
- Tamil: சுல்தான் (cultāṉ) — ruler
- Tatar: солтан (soltan) — ruler
- Tausug: sultan — ruler
- Ternate: جوو (joou) — ruler
- Ternate: جو (joo) — ruler
- Thai: สุลต่าน (sǔn-lá-dtàan) — ruler
- Turkish: sultan — ruler
- Turkmen: soltan — ruler
- Ukrainian: султа́н (sultán) — ruler
- Urdu: سُلْطان (sultān) — ruler
- Uyghur: سۇلتان (sultan) — ruler
- Uzbek: sulton — ruler
- Vietnamese: vua — ruler
- Vietnamese: xun-tan — ruler
- Walloon: zultan — ruler
- Yakan: sultan — ruler
- Yiddish: סולטאַן (sultan) — ruler
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