soldan
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Etymology edit
From Middle English soudan, from Old French soudan, from Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān). Doublet of sultan.
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Noun edit
soldan (plural soldans)
- (now rare, historical) The ruler of a major Muslim state in the Middle Ages, especially the Sultan of Egypt.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:
- The iewels and the treaſure we haue tane
Shall be reſeru’d, and you in better ſtate,
Than if you were arriu’d in Siria,
Euen in the circle of your Fathers armes,
The mightie Souldan of Ægyptia.
- (now rare, archaic) A sultan.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- And then the Damzell, the sad Samient, / Should as his purchast prize with him convay / Unto the Souldans court […].
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soldan
Middle English edit
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soldan
- Alternative form of soudan
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soldan