sultāns

See also: sultans

Latvian

Mehmets III, Osmaņu impērijas sultāns

Etymology

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”).

Noun

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

Declension

Declension of sultāns (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	sultāns	sultāni
accusative (akuzatīvs)	sultānu	sultānus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	sultāna	sultānu
dative (datīvs)	sultānam	sultāniem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	sultānu	sultāniem
locative (lokatīvs)	sultānā	sultānos
vocative (vokatīvs)	sultān	sultāni

Related terms

• sultanāts