sultan

See also: Sultan, sultán, and sułtan

English

Etymology

From French sultan, from Turkish sultan, from Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān), from Aramaic שולטנא (šulṭānā, “strength, authority”) (compare Hebrew שִׁלְטוֹן (shiltón) and Hebrew סוּלְטָן (sultán)). Compare soldan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌltən/
• Hyphenation: sul‧tan
• Rhymes: -ʌltən

Noun

sultan (plural usually sultans, rarely salateen)

1. (historical) The holder of a secular office, formally subordinate to, but de facto the power behind the throne of, the caliph.
2. A hereditary ruler in various Muslim states (sultanate), varying from petty principalities (as in Indonesia and in Yemen), often vassal of a greater ruler, to independent realms, such as Oman, Brunei, or an empire such as the Turkish Ottoman Empire.
3. (card games) A variant of solitaire, played with two decks of cards.
4. A breed of chicken originating in Turkey, kept primarily in gardens for ornamental reasons. See: sultan (chicken)

Derived terms

• sultana
• sultanate

Translations

office

• Arabic: سُلْطَان m (sulṭān)
• Ido: sultanerio
• Macedonian: су́лтан m (súltan)
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• Marathi: सुल्तान m (sultān)
• Russian: султа́н (ru) m (sultán)

ruler

• Albanian: sultan m
• Amharic: ሱልጣን (sulṭan)
• Arabic: سُلْطَان m (sulṭān)
• Armenian: սուլթան (hy) (sultʻan)
• Azerbaijani: soltan, sultan
• Bashkir: солтан (soltan)
• Belarusian: султа́н m (sultán)
• Bengali: সুলতান (śulotan)
• Bulgarian: султа́н m (sultán)
• Catalan: sultà (ca) m, soldà (ca) (archaic)
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⴳⵍⵍⵉⴷ (agellid)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蘇丹／苏丹 (zh) (sūdān), 苏丹 (zh) (sūdān)

• Crimean Tatar: sultan
• Czech: sultán m
• Danish: sultan c
• Dutch: sultan (nl) m
• Esperanto: sultano
• Estonian: sultan (et)
• Faroese: sultánur m
• Finnish: sulttaani (fi)
• French: sultan (fr) m, soudan (fr) m
• Georgian: სულთანი (sultani)
• German: Sultan (de) m
• Greek: σουλτάνος (el) m (soultános)
• Gujarati: સરતાણ m (sartāṇ), સુલતાન m (sultān)
• Hebrew: סוּלְטָאן (he) m (sultan)
• Hindi: सुल्तान (hi) m (sultān), सुलतान (hi) m (sultān)
• Hungarian: szultán (hu)
• Icelandic: soldán (is) m
• Ido: sultano (io)
• Indonesian: sultan (id)
• Irish: sabhdán m

  Middle Irish: sabdán m

• Italian: sultano (it) m
• Japanese: スルタン (surutan)
• Kazakh: сұлтан (sūltan)
• Khmer: ស៊ុលតង់ (sultɑng)
• Korean: 술탄 (sultan)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji:

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• Kyrgyz: султан (ky) (sultan)
• Latin: sultanus m
• Latvian: sultāns m
• Lithuanian: sultonas (lt) m
• Macedonian: су́лтан m (súltan)
• Malay: sultan
• Maltese: sultan m
• Manx: sultan m
• Marathi: सुल्तान m (sultān)
• Mongolian: султан (sultan)
• Ngazidja Comorian: sulutwani, mfaume class 1/2
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sultan m

  Nynorsk: sultan m

• Old Gujarati: सुरताण (suratāṇa)
• Pashto: سلطان (ps) m (sәltãn, soltãn)
• Persian: سلطان (fa) (soltân)
• Polish: sułtan (pl) m
• Portuguese: sultão (pt) m
• Romanian: sultan (ro) m
• Russian: султа́н (ru) m (sultán)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: султан m

  Roman: sultan (sh) m

• Slovak: sultán m
• Slovene: sultan (sl) m
• Spanish: sultán (es) m
• Swahili: sultani (sw)
• Swedish: sultan (sv) c
• Tagalog: sultan
• Tajik: султон (tg) (sulton)
• Tatar: солтан (tt) (soltan)
• Thai: สุลต่าน (th) (sǔn-lá-dtàan)
• Turkish: sultan (tr)
• Turkmen: soltan
• Ukrainian: султа́н m (sultán)
• Urdu: سلطان m (sultān)
• Uyghur: سۇلتان (sultan)
• Uzbek: sulton (uz), sultan (uz)
• Vietnamese: sultan (vi), vua (vi)
• Walloon: zultan (wa) m
• Yiddish: סולטאַן m (sultan)

solitaire

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See also

• sultana bird

Anagrams

• Naults, unlast

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Danish

Etymology

From Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān)

Noun

sultan c (singular definite sultanen, plural indefinite sultaner)

1. sultan (ruler)

Declension

Declension of sultan

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	sultan	sultanen	sultaner	sultanerne
genitive	sultans	sultanens	sultaners	sultanernes

References

• “sultan” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Etymology

From Turkish sultan, from Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān), from Aramaic שולטנא (šulṭānā, “strength, authority”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʏl.tɑn/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: sul‧tan

Noun

sultan m (plural sultans, feminine sultane)

1. sultan, a Muslim ruler title
2. a certain pastry

Derived terms

• sultana f
• sultanaat n
• sultane f
• sultanshoen n

References

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

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French

Noun

sultan m (plural sultans)

1. A sultan: a Muslim ruler with a certain title.
2. A silk-ornamented basket.
3. A perfume sachet to put in a linen coffer.

Synonyms

• soudan

References

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

Further reading

• “sultan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Icelandic

Noun

1. definite nominative singular of sulta

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Maltese

Etymology

Inherited from Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʊlˈtaːn/

Noun

1. (dated, historical or figurative) king; monarch; ruler

   Synonym: re

Usage notes

• The word is rare for the kings of modern internationally recognised states, but is otherwise still used in a broader or historical sense. Compare the same in saltna versus renju.

Related terms

• saltna

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān)

Noun

sultan m (definite singular sultanen, indefinite plural sultaner, definite plural sultanene)

1. sultan (ruler)

References

• “sultan” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān)

Noun

sultan m (definite singular sultanen, indefinite plural sultanar, definite plural sultanane)

1. sultan (ruler)

References

• “sultan” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Romanian

Etymology

From Turkish sultan, from Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān).

Noun

sultan m (plural sultani)

1. sultan

Declension

Declension of sultan

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) sultan	sultanul	(niște) sultani	sultanii
genitive/dative	(unui) sultan	sultanului	(unor) sultani	sultanilor
vocative	sultanule		sultanilor

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish [Term?] (compare Turkish sultan), from Arabic سلطان (sulṭān).

Noun

sùltān m (Cyrillic spelling су̀лта̄н)

1. sultan

Declension

Declension of sultan

	singular	plural
nominative	sùltān	sultani
genitive	sultána	sultana
dative	sultanu	sultanima
accusative	sultana	sultane
vocative	sultane	sultani
locative	sultanu	sultanima
instrumental	sultanom	sultanima

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Swedish

Etymology

From Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān)

Noun

sultan c

1. sultan (ruler)

Declension

Declension of sultan
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	sultan	sultanen	sultaner	sultanerna
Genitive	sultans	sultanens	sultaners	sultanernas

Anagrams

• anslut, lustan, lutans, slutna

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Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish سلطان (sultân), from Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān), from Aramaic שולטנא (šulṭānā, “strength, authority”) (compare Hebrew שִׁלְטוֹן (shiltón)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suɫˈtaːn/

Noun

sultan (definite accusative sultanı, plural sultanlar)

1. A monarchic title for Sunni Muslim monarchs.
2. A noble title for monarch's mother, wifes and children.
3. A honorific title for Bektashi saints.
4. A breed of chicken originating in Turkey, kept primarily in gardens for ornamental reasons. See: sultan (chicken)

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	sultan
Definite accusative	sultanı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sultan	sultanlar
Definite accusative	sultanı	sultanları
Dative	sultana	sultanlara
Locative	sultanda	sultanlarda
Ablative	sultandan	sultanlardan
Genitive	sultanın	sultanların
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular sultanım sultanlarım 2nd singular sultanın sultanların 3rd singular sultanı sultanları 1st plural sultanımız sultanlarımız 2nd plural sultanınız sultanlarınız 3rd plural sultanları sultanları Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular sultanımı sultanlarımı 2nd singular sultanını sultanlarını 3rd singular sultanını sultanlarını 1st plural sultanımızı sultanlarımızı 2nd plural sultanınızı sultanlarınızı 3rd plural sultanlarını sultanlarını Dative Singular Plural 1st singular sultanıma sultanlarıma 2nd singular sultanına sultanlarına 3rd singular sultanına sultanlarına 1st plural sultanımıza sultanlarımıza 2nd plural sultanınıza sultanlarınıza 3rd plural sultanlarına sultanlarına Locative Singular Plural 1st singular sultanımda sultanlarımda 2nd singular sultanında sultanlarında 3rd singular sultanında sultanlarında 1st plural sultanımızda sultanlarımızda 2nd plural sultanınızda sultanlarınızda 3rd plural sultanlarında sultanlarında Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular sultanımdan sultanlarımdan 2nd singular sultanından sultanlarından 3rd singular sultanından sultanlarından 1st plural sultanımızdan sultanlarımızdan 2nd plural sultanınızdan sultanlarınızdan 3rd plural sultanlarından sultanlarından Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular sultanımın sultanlarımın 2nd singular sultanının sultanlarının 3rd singular sultanının sultanlarının 1st plural sultanımızın sultanlarımızın 2nd plural sultanınızın sultanlarınızın 3rd plural sultanlarının sultanlarının
Predicative forms Singular Plural 1st singular sultanım sultanlarım 2nd singular sultansın sultanlarsın 3rd singular sultan sultandır sultanlar sultanlardır 1st plural sultanız sultanlarız 2nd plural sultansınız sultanlarsınız 3rd plural sultanlar sultanlardır

Derived terms

• çelebi sultan
• haseki sultan
• saplı sultan
• sultan böreği
• sultan camileri
• sultan kethüdası
• sultan tavuğu
• sultani
• sultanibuselik
• sultanihüzzam
• sultaniyegâh
• sultanküpesi
• sultanlık
• sultanoğlu
• valide sultan