sultan

Etymology
From, from , from. (compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬). .

Noun

 * 1)  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 Yemen), often vassal of a greater ruler, to independent realms, such as Oman, Brunei, Morocco (until 1956) or an empire such as the Turkish Ottoman Empire.
 * 3)  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:

Translations

 * Arabic: سُلْطَان
 * Ido: sultanerio
 * Macedonian: су́лтан
 * Marathi: सुल्तान
 * Russian:


 * Acehnese:
 * Afar: súltaan
 * Albanian: sultan
 * Amharic: ሱልጣን
 * Arabic: سُلْطَان
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: চুলতান
 * Azerbaijani: soltan,
 * Bashkir: солтан
 * Belarusian: султа́н
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: султа́н
 * Burmese: စူလတန်, ဆူလတန်
 * Catalan: ,
 * Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⴳⵍⵍⵉⴷ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Crimean Tatar: sultan
 * Czech: sultán
 * Danish: sultan
 * Dhivehi:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: sultano
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: sultánur
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: სულთანი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati:, સુલતાન
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Iranun:
 * Irish: sabhdán
 * Middle Irish: sabdán
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: スルタン
 * Javanese: kemangga
 * Kazakh: сұлтан
 * Khmer: ស៊ុលតង់
 * Korean: 술탄
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin: sultanus
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: су́лтан
 * Maguindanao: sulutan
 * Malay: sultan
 * Maltese: sultan
 * Manx: sultan
 * Maranao: solotan
 * Marathi: सुल्तान
 * Middle English: soudan
 * Minangkabau:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: султан
 * Ngazidja Comorian: sulutwani, mfaume
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: sultan
 * Nynorsk: sultan
 * Old Gujarati: सुरताण
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Rohingya:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: су̀лта̄н
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: sultán
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Sylheti:
 * Tagalog: sultan
 * Tajik:
 * Tatar:
 * Tausug: sultan
 * Ternate: جوو, جو
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: soltan
 * Ukrainian: султа́н
 * Urdu: سُلْطان
 * Uyghur: سۇلتان
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Walloon:
 * Yakan: sultan
 * Yiddish: סולטאַן

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  ruler

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * , a Muslim ruler title
 * 1) a certain

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) sultan

Etymology
, from. See 🇨🇬 for more.

Noun

 * a : a Muslim ruler with a certain title
 * 1) a silk-ornamented basket
 * 2) a perfume sachet to put in a linen coffer

Etymology
From, from , from.

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  ruler

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  king, monarch, ruler

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 versus.

Etymology
From (or an Old Anatolian Turkish ancestor) or directly from.

Noun

 * 1) sultan ruler of a Muslim state

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  ruler

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  ruler

Noun

 * 1)  ruler

Etymology
, from.

Etymology
From (compare 🇨🇬), from.

Noun

 * 1)  ruler

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  ruler

Etymology
Either from or from, ultimately from.

Noun

 * 1)  (Muslim king)

Etymology
From, from , from (compare 🇨🇬).

Noun

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

Noun

 * 1)  (Muslim king)