عثمان

Arabic

Etymology

According to many Arabic lexicographers, عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān) is a name of many young animals, from the root ع ث م (ʕ ṯ m).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʕuθ.maːn/

Proper noun

عُثْمَان • (ʕuṯmān) m

1. a male given name, Uthman or Osman
2. (Islam) ʿUṯmān ibn ʿAffān, recognized as the Islamic prophet's third rightly-guided successor in most of Sunni Islam

Declension

Declension of noun عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān)

singular	basic singular diptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	—	عُثْمَان ʕuṯmān	—
nominative	—	عُثْمَانُ ʕuṯmānu	—
accusative	—	عُثْمَانَ ʕuṯmāna	—
genitive	—	عُثْمَانَ ʕuṯmāna	—

Derived terms

• عُثْمَانِيّ (ʕuṯmāniyy)

Descendants

• → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܥܘܿܬ݂ܡܵܢ (ˁōṯmān)
• → Azerbaijani: Osman
• → Byzantine Greek: Οὐθμάν (Outhmán)
• → Chagatai: عُثْمان (ʿs̱mān)
  • Uyghur: ئوسمان (osman)
  • Uzbek: Usmon
• → Classical Persian: عُثْمَان (usmān)
  • Dari: عُثْمَان (usmān)
  • Iranian Persian: عُثْمان (osmân)
  • Tajik: Усмон (Usmon)
  • → Bengali: উসমান (uśoman)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: उस्मान (usmān)

    Urdu: عُثْمان ('usmān)

  • → Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਉਸਮਾਨ (usamān)

    Shahmukhi script: عُثْمان (ʻus̱mān)

  • → Sindhi: عثمان (ʻs̱mā̃)
• → English: Uthman
• → Italian: Ottomano, Ottoman' (truncation), Otomano
  • → Middle French: Ottoman
    • French: Ottoman
    • → English: Ottoman
  • → New Latin: Ottomanus
    • → German: Ottomanus
    • → Russian: Оттома́н (Ottomán)
• → Kazakh: Осман (Osman), Ғұсман (Ğūsman)
• → Kyrgyz: Осмон (Osmon)
• → Latin: Othmanus
• → Maguindanao: Usman
• → Malay: Usman
  • Indonesian: Usman, Oesman
• → Maranao: Osman, Usman
• → Northern Kurdish: Etman
• → Ottoman Turkish: عثمان (ʿosmân), Օսման (Osman) — Armeno-Turkish
  • Turkish: Osman
  • → English: Osman
  • → French: Osman
  • → German: Osman
  • → Greek: Οσμάν (Osmán)
  • → Italian: Osman
  • → Polish: Osman
  • → Russian: Осма́н (Osmán)
• → Pashto: عثمان
• → Somali: Cismaan
• → Turkmen: Osman

See also

• أَبُو بَكْر (ʔabū bakr)
• عَلِيّ (ʕaliyy)
• عُمَر (ʕumar)

• رَافِضِيّ (rāfiḍiyy)

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• Օսման (Osman) — Armeno-Turkish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān)bor.

Ottoman Turkish عثمان

Borrowed from Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān).

Proper noun

عثمان • (ʿosmân)

1. Osman, a male given name which usually refers to Osman Bey, the founder of the Ottoman Empire

Derived terms

• آل عثمان (âl-ı ʿosmân, “Ottoman dynasty”)
• عثمانجق (ʿosmancık, “Osmancık”)
• عثمانلوجه (ʿosmânlıca, “Ottoman language”)
• عثمانلی (ʿosmânlı, “Ottoman”)
• عثمانی (ʿosmânî, “Ottoman”)
• عثمانیه (ʿosmâniyye, “Osmaniye”)

Descendants

• Turkish: Osman
• → English: Osman
• → French: Osman
• → German: Osman
• → Greek: Οσμάν (Osmán)
• → Italian: Osman
• → Polish: Osman
• → Russian: Осма́н (Osmán)

Further reading

• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “Osman”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎ [Ottoman–Turkish Encyclopedic Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1017
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “عثمان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 3216
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “عثمان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1285

Pashto

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān).

Proper noun

عثمان • (usmān)

1. a male given name, Usman, from Arabic

Derived terms

• عثماني

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔus.ˈmaːn/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔʊs.mɑ́ːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔʊs.mɑ́ːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔʊs.mɑ́ːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔus.mɔ́ːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔos.mɒ́ːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔus.mɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading?	usmān
Dari reading?	usmān
Iranian reading?	osmân
Tajik reading?	usmon

Proper noun

عثمان • (usmān / osmân) (Tajik spelling Усмон)

1. (Islam) Uthman (Uthman bin Affan, third Islamic caliph and a companion of Muhammad)
2. Osman, any of a number of Ottoman sultans
3. a male given name, Osman or Usman, from Arabic, equivalent to English Uthman

Derived terms

• عثمانی (usmānī / osmâni)

Descendants

• Dari: عُثْمَان (usmān)
• Iranian Persian: عُثْمان (osmân)
• Tajik: Усмон (Usmon)
• → Bengali: উসমান (uśoman)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: उस्मान (usmān)

  Urdu: عُثْمان ('usmān)

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਉਸਮਾਨ (usamān)

  Shahmukhi script: عُثْمان (ʻus̱mān)

• → Sindhi: عثمان (ʻs̱mā̃)

See also

• ابوبکر (abu-bakr)
• علی (ali)
• عمر (omar)

Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian عُثْمَان (usmān), from Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān).

Proper noun

عُثْمان • (ʻus̱mān) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਉਸਮਾਨ)

1. a male given name from Arabic

Derived terms

• عُثْمانی (ʻus̱mānī)

Sindhi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian عُثْمَان (usmān), from Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān).

Proper noun

عثمان • (ʻs̱mā̃) m

1. a male given name from Arabic

Derived terms

• عثماني (ʻs̱māne)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian عُثْمَان (usmān), from Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān).

Proper noun

عُثْمان • ('usmān) m (Hindi spelling उसमान)

1. a male given name from Arabic

Derived terms

• عُثْمانی ('usmānī)