khatun
See also: Khatun
English
Etymology
From Persian خاتون (xātūn), ultimately probably from Sogdian [script needed] (γwtʾynh /xwatēn, xutēn/, “queen”) either directly or via Common Turkic *xātun.
Noun
khatun (plural khatuns)
- (now historical) A lady or wife in certain Central Asian communities, sometimes used as a title.
- 2003, Carole Hillenbrand, ‘Women in the Seljuq Period’, Women in Iran from the Rise of Islam to 1800, p. 114:
- For example, according to Ibn al-Jawzi, thew wife of the caliph al-Muqtafi, Fatima Khatun, daughter of the Seljuq sultan Muhammad, could read and write.
- 2014, Pamela Sargent, Ruler of the Sky:
- The Khatun covered her face, then grabbed at the arm of a servant, who quickly poured more kumiss into Bortai's goblet.
- 2015, Boris Zhivkov, Khazaria in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries, p. 80:
- Furthermore, also noteworthy is the account (from the ninth century) of a khatun, sister to the Khazar king, who convinced the starving Khazars to submit to God's will.
- 2003, Carole Hillenbrand, ‘Women in the Seljuq Period’, Women in Iran from the Rise of Islam to 1800, p. 114: