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Ottoman

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See also: ottoman and ottomán

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Etymology 1

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16th-century depiction of Otomano P[rim]o (Osman I) by Paolo Veronese

Borrowed from Middle French Ottoman (“Osman”), from Italian Ottomano (“Osman”), from Ottoman Turkish عثمان, from Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān, male given name). Doublet of Osman and Uthman.

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Ottoman (history)

  1. Archaic form of Osman, the name borne by
    1. Osman I (d. 1323/4), founder of the Ottoman Empire.
      • 1550, The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre and Yorke‎[1]:
        In the beginning of this yere Sulton Solyman Pac called yͤ great Turke which was but the. viii. of the ligne of Ottoman, the firſt that toke vpō hym to be a great capitain or ruler […]
      • 1560, A Famous Cronicle of Oure Time, Called Sleidanes Commentaries‎[2]:
        Ottoman the firſte Emperour of this Turkiſhe nation, […]
      • 1625, Francis Bacon, The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral‎[3], pages 313–314:
        In the Firſt Place are Conditores Imperiorum; Founders of States, and Common-Wealths: Such as were Romulus, Cyrus, Cæſar, Ottoman, Iſmael.
      • 1689, Drue Cressener, The Judgments of God Upon the Roman-Catholick Church, page 128:
        It is unqueſtionable, that about the year 1300 upon Aladin’s Death, Ottoman was an abſolute Soveraign […]
      • 1737, Benj. Martin, Bibliotheca Technologica: or, a Philological Library of Literary Arts and Sciences, page 396:
        OTTOMAN the Son of Ethrogul the Son of Solyman (who was drove out of Perſia by the Tartars) was about A.D. 1290 ſaluted with the Title of Governor of the Oguzian Turks in Aſia […]
      • 1751, A General History of the Several Nations of the World, page 123:
        Ottoman, notwithſtanding this Succeſs, thought fit to agree to a Truce with the Chriſtians […]
    2. Osman II (1604–1622), sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1618 until his death.
      • 1664, John Gadbury, Dies novissimus, page 36:
        And in the year 1618. (when Ottoman the ſecond (who ſucceeded his Uncle Muſtapha) was unſuccessful in his war againſt Poland, and was therefore ſlain by his Janizaries) […]
      • 1701, “TURKS”, in The Great Historical, Geographical, Genealogical and Poetical Dictionary‎[4]:
        After theſe reign'd […] Ottoman II. ſtrangled by the Janizaries, […]
      • 1759, The Universal Traveller, page 458:
        Oſman, or Ottoman II, […]
    3. Osman III (1699–1757), sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1754 until his death.
      • 1781, J. S. Charrier, A New Description of Europe, table 31, page 3:
        Ottoman III.
      • 2004, Atsuyuki Okabe, Islamic Area Studies with Geographical Information Systems, page 170:
        […] the reign of Ottoman III (reigned 1754–57) after the death of Mahmut I.
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Noun

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Ottoman (plural Ottomans) (history)

  1. A member of the Ottoman dynasty.
    Synonyms: Osman, Osmanid, Osmanli, Ottomanid
    • 2006, Robert Dankoff, An Ottoman Mentality, page 243:
      […] the Ottomans were a dynasty like every other, subject to the same laws of the rise and fall of states.
  2. A citizen of the Ottoman Empire.
    Synonyms: Osman, Osmanian, Osmanli, Ottomanian
    • 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.
    1. (in particular) An ethnic Turk of the Ottoman Empire.
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Ottoman (not comparable) (history)

  2. Of or relating to the Ottoman dynasty or the Ottoman Empire.
    Synonyms: Osman, Osmanian, Osmanic, Osmanid, Osmanli, Ottomanian, Ottomanic, Ottomanid
    1. (in particular) Of or relating to the ethnic Turks of the Ottoman Empire.
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Etymology 2

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Ellipsis of Ottoman Turkish.

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Ottoman

  1. The Ottoman Turkish language.
    • 1987, East encounters West, page 114:
      […] translated into Ottoman by a certain Mehmed Efendi […]
    • 2009, Islamic Education in Europe, page 157:
      […] translated from Ottoman into Greek […]
    • 2024, The History of Translation and Translators in the Ottoman Empire, page 60:
      […] translated from Ottoman into Persian […]
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French

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Etymology

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From Middle French Ottoman, from Italian Ottomano, from Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān).

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Ottoman m (history)

  1. Archaic form of Osman, the name borne by
    1. Osman I (d. 1323/4), founder of the Ottoman Empire
      • 1726, Histoire des chevaliers hospitaliers, page 99:
        Ottoman fils d’Orthogrul […]
        Osman son of Ertuğrul […]
    2. Osman II (1604–1622), sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1618 until his death
      • 1777, Abrégé élémentaire de l'histoire universelle, page 464:
        Les ſultans qui regnerent enſuite ne firent rien d’utile à leur empire, quelques uns furent détrônés par les ſoldats de leur garde nommés janniſſaires. Ottoman II fut étranglé par eux […]
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    3. Osman III (1699–1757), sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1754 until his death.
      • 1835, Dictionnaire historique des peuples anciens et modernes, page 444:
        Son frère, Ottoman III, le remplaça sur le trône et mourut après trois ans de règne en 1757.
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Noun

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Ottoman m (plural Ottomans, feminine Ottomane) (history)

  1. Ottoman (member of the Ottoman dynasty)
    Synonyms: Osman, Osmanide, Osmanli
  2. Ottoman (citizen of the Ottoman Empire)
    Synonyms: Osman, Osmanide, Osmanli

Middle French

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Etymology

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From Italian Ottomano, from Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān).

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Ottoman m

  1. Osman I (d. 1323/4), founder of the Ottoman Empire
    • 1526, Claude Gruget, Les diverses leçons de Pierre Messie, translation of Silva de varia lección by Pedro Mexía, page 65:
      […] les Turcs ſe trouuerent aſſez longue eſpace de temps ſans auoir capitaine de nom entr'eux, & partant peu craints & redoutez iuſques en l'an mil trois cens, qu'vn d'entr'eux nommé Ottoman (homme de bas lignage) commença peu à peu à gaigner reputation entr'eux […]
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    • 1575, La cosmographie universelle de tout le monde, page 529:
      […] là ſe tenoit Ottoman fils d’Orthogud […]
      […] there stood Osman son of Ertuğrul […]

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  • French: Ottoman
  • → English: Ottoman
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