sultāns

See also: sultans

Latvian

Mehmets III, Osmaņu impērijas sultāns

Etymology

Via other European languages (compare French sultan, German Sultan), ultimately borrowed from Turkish sultan, itself from Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān), apparently from Aramaic [script needed] (šultānā, “strength, power, authority”).

Noun

sultāns m (1st declension)

  1. sultan (hereditary ruler in certain Muslim states called sultanates)
    sultāna pils ― sultan's palace
    Osmaņu impērijas sultāns ― sultan of the Ottoman empire
    tas notika toreiz, kad es viesojos pie turku sultāna ― this happened at the time when I was visiting the Turkish Sultan

Declension

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