sultāns

 

 sultāns on Latvian Wikipedia

 

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”).

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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

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