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عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmānm

  1. a male given name, Uthman; Osman
  2. (Islam) ʿUṯmān ibn ʿAffān, recognized as the Islamic prophet's third rightly-guided successor in most of Sunni Islam

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Borrowed from Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān).

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عثمان (ʿosman)

  1. Osman, a male given name which usually refers to Osman Bey, the founder of the Ottoman Empire

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Borrowed from Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān).

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Readings
Classical reading? usmān
Dari reading? usmān
Iranian reading? osmân
Tajik reading? usmon

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Dari عثمان
Iranian Persian
Tajik Усмон

عثمان ('osmân)

  1. (Islam) Uthman bin Affan, third Sunni Islamic caliph and a companion of Muhammad
  2. Osman, any of a number of Ottoman sultans
  3. a male given name from Arabic

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