Ottoman

See also: ottoman and ottomán

English

Etymology

From Middle French Ottoman, from Medieval Latin Ottomanus, from Ottoman Turkish عثمان (osman), from the Arabic personal name عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān). Osman is the Turkish spelling of the male Arabic given name Uthman, therefore the Ottoman Empire is sometimes referred to as the Osman Empire, Osmanic Empire, or Osmanian Empire, after Osman I.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑtəmən/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɒtəmən/
• Hyphenation: Ot‧to‧man

Noun

Ottoman (plural Ottomans)

1. A Turk from the period of Ottoman Empire.

Translations

Turk from the period of Ottoman Empire

• Arabic: عُثْمَانِيّ m (ʕuṯmāniyy)
• Armenian: օսման (ōsman), օսմանցի (ōsmancʻi)
• Catalan: otomà (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奧斯曼人／奥斯曼人, 奥斯曼人 (Àosīmànrén), 鄂圖曼人／鄂图曼人, 鄂图曼人 (Ètúmànrén)

• Danish: osman c, osmanner c
• Dutch: Osmaan m
• Finnish: ottomaani (fi), osmani (fi)
• French: ottoman (fr) m
• Galician: otomano m, otomana f
• German: Osmane (de) m, Osmanin (de) f
• Greek: Οθωμανός m (Othomanós)
• Hungarian: oszmán (hu)
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• Irish: Otamánach m
• Italian: osmanli m or f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: osman m

  Nynorsk: osman m

• Portuguese: otomano (pt) m
• Russian: оттоман (ru) (ottoman)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Османлија m, Турчин m

  Roman: Osmanlija m, Turčin (sh) m

• Spanish: otomano (es) m
• Turkish: Osmanlı (tr)

Adjective

Ottoman (not comparable)

1. Of the Ottoman Empire.
2. Turkish

Translations

of the Islamic empire of Turkey

• Arabic: عُثْمَانِيّ m (ʕuṯmāniyy)
• Armenian: օսմանյան (hy) (ōsmanyan), օսմանական (hy) (ōsmanakan)
• Catalan: otomà (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 奧斯曼／奥斯曼 (zh) (Àosīmàn), 奥斯曼 (zh) (Àosīmàn), 鄂圖曼／鄂图曼, 鄂图曼 (Ètúmàn)

• Czech: osmanský
• Danish: osmannisk
• Dutch: Osmaans
• Finnish: ottomaanien (fi), osmanien (fi) (genitives of noun); ottomaaninen
• French: ottoman (fr) m
• German: osmanisch (de), ottomanisch
• Greek: οθωμανικός (el) (othomanikós)
• Hungarian: oszmán (hu)
• Indonesian: Usmaniyah
• Irish: Otamánach
• Italian: osmanico (it), osmanli
• Javanese: Usmaniyah
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• Latin: osmanicus
• Malay: Uthmaniyah
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: osmansk

  Nynorsk: osmansk

• Polish: osmański (pl) m
• Portuguese: otomano (pt)
• Russian: осма́нский (ru) m (osmánskij), оттома́нский (ru) m (ottománskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: османски m, османлијски m, отомански m

  Roman: osmanski (sh) m, osmanlijski (sh) m, otomanski (sh) m

• Slovene: otománski
• Spanish: otomano (es)
• Swedish: osmansk (sv), ottomansk (sv)
• Turkish: Osmanlı (tr)

Derived terms

• Ottoman Empire

See also

• not to be confused with: Ottonian

Anagrams

• Mattoon