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Etymology
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
Noun
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
Turk from the period of Ottoman Empire
- Arabic: عُثْمَانِيّ m (ʕuṯmāniyy), عُثْمَانِيَّة f (ʕuṯmāniyya)
- Armenian: օսման (ōsman), օսմանցի (ōsmancʻi)
- Belarusian: асма́н (be) m (asmán), асма́нка f (asmánka)
- Bengali: ওসমানী (bn) (ōśomani)
- Catalan: otomà (ca) m, otomana (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 奧斯曼人/奥斯曼人 (Àosīmànrén), 鄂圖曼人/鄂图曼人 (Ètúmànrén)
- Danish: osman c, osmanner c
- Dutch: Osmaan m
- Finnish: ottomaani (fi), osmani (fi)
- French: ottoman (fr) m
- Gagauz: osmannı
- Galician: otomán (gl)
- German: Osmane (de) m, Osmanin (de) f
- Greek: Οθωμανός (el) m (Othomanós), Οθωμανή (el) f (Othomaní)
- Hungarian: oszmán (hu)
- Irish: Otamánach m
- Italian: osmanli m or f
- Japanese: オスマン (osuman), オットマン (ottoman)
- Korean: 오스만 (oseuman), 오토만 (otoman)
- Kyrgyz: осмондук (osmonduk)
- Ladino: otomano
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: osman m
- Nynorsk: osman m
- Portuguese: otomano (pt) m
- Romanian: osmanlâu (ro) m, osmanlâi m pl
- Russian: осма́н (ru) m (osmán), осма́нка (ru) f (osmánka), оттома́н (ru) m (ottomán), оттома́нка (ru) f (ottománka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Османлија m, Турчин m
- Roman: Osmanlija m, Turčin (sh) m
- Spanish: otomano (es) m
- Swedish: osman (sv) c
- Thai: ชาวออตโตมัน (chaao-ɔ́ɔt-dtoo-man)
- Turkish: Osmanlı (tr)
- Ukrainian: осма́н m (osmán), осма́нка f (osmánka)
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Adjective
Ottoman (not comparable)
- Of the Ottoman Empire.
- Turkish person lived in Ottoman Empire
Translations
of the Islamic empire of Turkey
- Albanian: osman (sq), otoman (sq)
- Arabic: عُثْمَانِيّ (ʕuṯmāniyy)
- Armenian: օսմանյան (hy) (ōsmanyan), օսմանական (hy) (ōsmanakan)
- Azerbaijani: osmanlı
- Bashkir: ғосманлы (ğosmanlı)
- Belarusian: асма́нскі (asmánski)
- Bengali: ওসমানী (bn) (ōśomani)
- Bulgarian: осма́нски (osmánski), отома́нски (otománski)
- Burmese: အော့တမန် (au.ta.man)
- Catalan: otomà (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 奧斯曼/奥斯曼 (zh) (Àosīmàn), 鄂圖曼/鄂图曼 (Ètúmàn)
- Crimean Tatar: osmanlı
- Czech: osmanský
- Danish: osmannisk
- Dutch: Osmaans
- Finnish: ottomaanien (fi), osmanien (fi) (genitives of noun); ottomaaninen
- French: ottoman (fr)
- Friulian: otoman
- Gagauz: osmannı
- Georgian: ოსმალური (osmaluri)
- German: osmanisch (de), ottomanisch
- Greek: οθωμανικός (el) (othomanikós)
- Hindi: उस्मानी (usmānī)
- Hungarian: oszmán (hu)
- Indonesian: Usmaniyah
- Irish: Otamánach
- Italian: osmanico (it), osmanli
- Japanese: オスマン (osuman), オットマン (ottoman)
- Javanese: Usmaniyah
- Kazakh: османлы (osmanly)
- Khmer: អូតូម៉ង់ (ʼoutoumɑng)
- Korean: 오스만 (oseuman), 오토만 (otoman)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: osmanî (ku)
- Kyrgyz: осмонлы (osmonlı)
- Ladino: otomano
- Lao: ໂອສະມັນ (ʼō sa man)
- Latin: osmanicus
- Macedonian: османски (osmanski), отома́нски (otománski), османлиски (osmanliski)
- Malay: Uthmaniyah
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: осман (osman), османы (osmany)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: osmansk
- Nynorsk: osmansk
- Ottoman Turkish: عثمانی ('osmānī), عثمانلو ('osmanlı)
- Pashto: عثماني (ʿosmānī)
- Persian: عثمانی (fa) ('osmâni)
- Piedmontese: otman
- Polish: osmański (pl), otomański (pl)
- Portuguese: otomano (pt), osmandi
- Romanian: otoman (ro), osmanlâi pl or m pl
- Russian: осма́нский (ru) (osmánskij), оттома́нский (ru) (ottománskij)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: османски, османлијски, отомански
- Roman: osmanski (sh), osmanlijski (sh), otomanski (sh)
- Slovak: osmanský
- Slovene: otománski
- Spanish: otomano (es)
- Swedish: osmansk (sv), ottomansk (sv)
- Tajik: усмонӣ (usmonī)
- Tatar: госманлы (ğosmanlı)
- Thai: ออตโตมัน (ɔ́ɔt-dtoo-man)
- Turkish: Osmanlı (tr)
- Turkmen: osmanly
- Ukrainian: осма́нський (osmánsʹkyj)
- Urdu: عثمانی ('usmānī)
- Uyghur: ئوسمانلى (osmanli)
- Uzbek: usmonli (uz)
- Vietnamese: Ô-xman, Ôt-tôman
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