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SULTAN (an Arabic word meaning " victorious " or " a ruler," sultat, dominion) , a title o` honourSee also: borne by a See also: great variety of rulers of very varying See also: powers and importance in See also: Mahommedan See also: Africa and the See also: East
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The word has thus no exact See also: equivalent in See also: English, and was early imported into the language in the See also: Middle English See also: form of soudan (from old Fr. soudan, souldan)
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This title is that conventionally applied by foreigners to the ruler of the See also: Ottoman See also: Empire, the sultan See also: par excellence, whose proper styles are, however, See also: padishah (emperor) and " See also: commander of the faithful " (see AlIa)
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The feminine form " sultana " is derived from the See also: Italian (fern. of sultan)
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