sabhdán

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish sabdán, from Middle French sultan (assimilated to the suffix -án), from Ottoman Turkish سلطان (sultan) and/or Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /sˠɑuˈd̪ˠɑːn̪ˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠaud̪ˠɑːnˠ/, /ˈsˠaud̪ˠɑːn̪ˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠaud̪ˠanˠ/, /ˈsˠaud̪ˠan̪ˠ/

Noun

sabhdán m (genitive singular sabhdáin, nominative plural sabhdáin)

1. sultan (hereditary ruler in various Muslim states)

   Synonym: sultán

Declension

Declension of sabhdán (first declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative sabhdán sabhdáin vocative a shabhdáin a shabhdána genitive sabhdáin sabhdán dative sabhdán sabhdáin forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an sabhdán na sabhdáin genitive an tsabhdáin na sabhdán dative leis an sabhdán don sabhdán leis na sabhdáin

Derived terms

• bansabhdán m (“sultana”)
• sabhdánach m (“sultana raisin”)
• sabhdánacht f (“sultanate”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of sabhdán

radical	lenition	eclipsis
sabhdán	shabhdán after an, tsabhdán	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sabhdán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “sultan”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sabdán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “sabhdán”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm