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Vinony

ottoman

noun

  1. type of furniture
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈɑtəmən/ / /ˈɒtəmən/

adj

Etymology: 16th-century depiction of Otomano P[rim]o (Osman I) by Paolo Veronese Etymology tree Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān)bor. Italian Ottomanobor. Middle French Ottomanbor. English Ottoman Borrowed from Middle French Ottoman (“Osman”), borrowed from Italian Ottomano, borrowed from Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān). Doublet of Osman and Uthman.

  1. Of or relating to the Ottoman dynasty or the Ottoman Empire.
  2. Of or relating to the Ottoman dynasty or the Ottoman Empire.

name

Etymology: Etymology tree English Ottoman Turkishellip. English Ottoman Ellipsis of Ottoman Turkish.

  1. The Ottoman Turkish language.

    “[…] translated into Ottoman by a certain Mehmed Efendi […]”

    “[…] translated from Ottoman into Greek […]”

noun

Etymology: 16th-century depiction of Otomano P[rim]o (Osman I) by Paolo Veronese Etymology tree Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān)bor. Italian Ottomanobor. Middle French Ottomanbor. English Ottoman Borrowed from Middle French Ottoman (“Osman”), borrowed from Italian Ottomano, borrowed from Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān). Doublet of Osman and Uthman.

  1. A member of the Ottoman dynasty.

    “[…] the Ottomans were a dynasty like every other, subject to the same laws of the rise and fall of states.”

    “is trump our first ottoman president? >gilded everything >retarded, constantly scheming sons >a harem of slavic wives >elaborate headgear”

  2. A citizen of the Ottoman Empire.

    “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.”

  3. A citizen of the Ottoman Empire.