sultaan

Afar

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān), from Aramaic שולטנא (šulṭānā, “power”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈsultaːn/, [ˈsʊltaːn]
  • Hyphenation: sul‧taan

Noun

súltaan m 

  1. sultan

References
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
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