ܫܘܠܛܢܐ

Inherited from Aramaic שׁוּלְטָנָא (šūlṭānā); compare Hebrew שִׁלְטוֹן (shiltón, “rulership, authority”) and also borrowed into Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān, “Sultan”). The second and third meanings are learned semantic loans from Classical Syriac.

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ܫܘܼܠܛܵܢܵܐ • (šulṭānā) m sg (plural ܫܘܼܠܛܵܢܹ̈ܐ (šulṭānē), feminine ܫܘܼܠܛܵܢܝܼܬ݂ܵܐ (šulṭānīṯā))

1. ruler, sultan
2. a government, authority
3. governance, rule, office; power, might

• ܫܘܼܠܛܵܢܵܝܵܐ (šulṭānāyā)
• ܫܲܠܝܼܛܵܐ (šalīṭā)

From the root ܫ-ܠ-ܛ (š-l-ṭ) related to dominating. Compare Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān).

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ܫܘܠܛܢܐ • (šūlṭānāʾ) m (plural ܫܘܠܛܢܐ, singular feminine counterpart ܫܘܠܛܢܝܬܐ)

1. power, might
2. domination, victory
3. sway, mastery, control
4. free will
5. yielding
6. permission
7. function, duty, charge
8. authority, rule, government, office
9. sovereignty, imperium, jurisdiction, capacity
10. dominion, territory, district, province, diocese
11. sultan, prince
12. chief, ruler, commander, governor, magistrate
13. (used with possessive suffixes as a title) Excellency

• → Arabic: سُلطان (sulṭān) (see there for further descendants)

• “šwlṭn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–, retrieved 2012-07-20
• Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, p. 370a
• Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 565b
• Sokoloff, Michael (2009) A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana, Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press, p. 1528a-b