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Arabic
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Proper noun
عُثْمَان • (ʕuṯmān) m
- a male given name, Uthman or Osman
- (Islam) ʿUṯmān ibn ʿAffān, recognized as the Islamic prophet's third rightly-guided successor in most of Sunni Islam
Declension
Declension of noun عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān)
Singular
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basic singular diptote
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Indefinite
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Definite
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Construct
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Informal
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عُثْمَان ʕuṯmān
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Nominative
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عُثْمَانُ ʕuṯmānu
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Accusative
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عُثْمَانَ ʕuṯmāna
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Genitive
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عُثْمَانَ ʕuṯmāna
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Derived terms
Descendants
See also
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān).
Proper noun
عثمان • (ʿosman)
- Osman, a male given name which usually refers to Osman Bey, the founder of the Ottoman Empire
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “Osman”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1017
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “عثمان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 3216
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عثمان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1285
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān).
Pronunciation
Readings
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Classical reading?
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usmān
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Dari reading?
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usmān
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Iranian reading?
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osmân
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Tajik reading?
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usmon
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Proper noun
Dari
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عثمان
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Iranian Persian
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Tajik
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Усмон
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عثمان • ('osmân)
- (Islam) Uthman bin Affan, third Sunni Islamic caliph and a companion of Muhammad
- Osman, any of a number of Ottoman sultans
- a male given name from Arabic
See also