سطهن

Soqotri

Etymology

Likely an old borrowing from Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān); compare especially the Soqotri plural with the Arabic plural سَلَاطِين (salāṭīn), likely borrowed together with the singular.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.tˤa.han/

Noun

سَطَهَن (sáṭahan) (plural - (səḷoṭíne))

1. sultan

References

• Naumkin, Vitaly, et al. (2018) “Glossary”, in Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature, volume 2, Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 578