Ottoman
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French Ottoman, from Medieval Latin Ottomanus, from Ottoman Turkish عثمان (osman), from the Arabic personal name عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān). Osman is the Turkish spelling of the male Arabic given name Uthman, therefore the Ottoman Empire is sometimes referred to as the Osman Empire, Osmanic Empire, or Osmanian Empire, after Osman I.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɑtəmən/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɒtəmən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: Ot‧to‧man
Noun
[edit]Ottoman (plural Ottomans)
- A citizen of the Ottoman Empire.
- 2002, Yücel Yanikdağ, “Marginal men: Ottoman prisoners of war in the Great War”, in The Turkish Studies Association Journal, volume 26, number 2, →JSTOR, pages 39–46:
- Nearly 250,000 Ottomans of various military ranks were taken captive by the Allied forces during World War I, which was referred to in Turkish variously as Büyük Harp, Cihan Harbi and Harb-i Umumi (or simply Seferberlik among the older generation of Turks) until World War II.
Translations
[edit]Turk from the period of Ottoman Empire
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Adjective
[edit]Ottoman (not comparable)
- Of the Ottoman Empire.
- Turkish person lived in Ottoman Empire
Translations
[edit]of the Islamic empire of Turkey
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[edit]- not to be confused with: Ottonian
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