sultanate

See also: Sultanate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian سَلْطَنَت (saltanat). By surface analysis, sultan +‎ ate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌltənət/

Noun

sultanate (plural sultanates)

1. A sovereign or vassal princely state—usually Muslim—where the ruler is styled sultan.
2. The office or position of sultan.

Derived terms

• Delhi Sultanate
• Sultanate of Oman

Related terms

• sultanic

Translations

state ruled by a sultan

• Arabic: سَلْطَنَة f (salṭana)
• Armenian: սուլթանություն (hy) (sultʿanutʿyun)
• Azerbaijani: sultanlıq
• Belarusian: султана́т m (sultanát), султа́нства n (sultánstva)
• Bengali: সালতানাত (bn) (saltanat)
• Bulgarian: султана́т m (sultanát), султа́нство n (sultánstvo)
• Catalan: soldanat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蘇丹國／苏丹国 (zh) (sūdānguó)

• Crimean Tatar: saltanat
• Czech: sultanát m
• Danish: sultanat n
• Dutch: sultanaat (nl) n
• Estonian: sultanaat
• Finnish: sulttaanikunta
• French: sultanat (fr) m
• Georgian: სულთანატი (sultanaṭi)
• German: Sultanat (de) n
• Greek: σουλτανάτο (el) n (soultanáto)
• Hindi: सल्तनत (hi) f (saltanat), सलतनत (hi) f (salatnat)
• Hungarian: szultanátus (hu)
• Ido: sultanio (io)
• Indonesian: kesultanan (id)
• Irish: sabhdánacht f
• Italian: sultanato m
• Kapampangan: kesultanan, sultanatu, sultaniya
• Kazakh: сұлтандық (sūltandyq)
• Kumyk: салтанат (saltanat)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: siltanet (ku)

• Kyrgyz: султандык (sultandık)
• Latin: sultanātus m
• Latvian: sultanāts m
• Lithuanian: sultonatas m
• Marathi: सल्तनत f (saltanat)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sultanat n

  Nynorsk: sultanat n

• Ottoman Turkish: سلطنت (saltanat)
• Pashto: سلطنت (ps) m (səltanat, soltanat)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: سَلْطَنَت (fa) (saltanat)

• Polish: sułtanat (pl) m
• Portuguese: sultanato (pt) m, sultanado m
• Romanian: sultanat (ro) n
• Russian: султана́т (ru) m (sultanát), султа́нство (ru) n (sultánstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: султа́нство n, султа̀на̄т m

  Roman: sultánstvo n, sultànāt (sh) m

• Slovak: sultanát m
• Slovene: sultanat (sl) m
• Spanish: sultanía f, sultanato (es) m
• Swedish: sultanat (sv) c
• Tagalog: kasultanan, sultanato
• Tajik: салтанат (saltanat)
• Tatar: солтанат (soltanat)
• Turkish: saltanat (tr), sultanlık (tr)
• Turkmen: soltanlyk
• Ukrainian: султана́т m (sultanát), султа́нство n (sultánstvo)
• Urdu: سَلْطَنَت f (saltanat)
• Uyghur: سۇلتانلىق (sultanliq)
• Uzbek: sultonlik (uz), saltanat (uz)

Romanian

Noun

sultanate

1. plural of sultanat