sabdán

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Middle French sultan (assimilated to the suffix -án), from Ottoman Turkish سلطان (sultan) and/or Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaβdaːn/

Noun

sabdán m

1. sultan

Descendants

• Irish: sabhdán

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
sabdán	ṡabdán	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sabdán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language