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• SULTAN (an Arabic word meaning " victorious " or " a ruler," sultat, dominion)

SULTAN (an Arabic word meaning " victorious " or " a ruler," sultat, dominion)  , a See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title o` See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour See also:

• BORNE, KARL LUDWIG (1786–1837)

borne by a See also:

• GREAT

great variety of rulers of very varying See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers and importance in See also:

• MAHOMMEDAN

Mahommedan See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa and the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East . The word has thus no exact See also:

• EQUIVALENT

equivalent in See also:

• ENGLISH

English, and was See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early imported into the See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language in the See also:

• MIDDLE

Middle English See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of soudan (from old Fr. soudan, souldan) . This title is that conventionally applied by foreigners to the ruler of the See also:

• OTTOMAN

Ottoman See also:

• EMPIRE

Empire, the See also:

• SULTAN (an Arabic word meaning " victorious " or " a ruler," sultat, dominion)

sultan See also:

• PAR (Lat. par, equal)

par excellence, whose proper styles are, however, See also:

• PADISHAH

padishah (See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor) and " See also:

• COMMANDER

commander of the faithful " (see AlIa) . The feminine form " sultana " is derived from the See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian (See also:

• FERN (from O. Eng. fearn, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch varen, and Ger. Farn; the Indo-European root, seen in the Sanskrit parna, a feather, shows the primary meaning; cf. Gr. rmep6 , feather, rTepis, fern)

fern. of sultan) .