sabhdán

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish sabdán, from Middle French sultan (assimilated to the suffix -án), from Ottoman Turkish سلطان (sultan) and/or Arabic سُلْطَان (sulṭān).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /sˠɑuˈd̪ˠɑːn̪ˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠaud̪ˠɑːnˠ/, /ˈsˠaud̪ˠɑːn̪ˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈsˠaud̪ˠanˠ/, /ˈsˠaud̪ˠan̪ˠ/

Noun

sabhdán m (genitive singular sabhdáin, nominative plural sabhdáin)

1. sultan (hereditary ruler in various Muslim states)

   Synonym: sultán

Declension

Declension of sabhdán

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative sabhdán sabhdáin Vocative a shabhdáin a shabhdána Genitive sabhdáin sabhdán Dative sabhdán sabhdáin

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an sabhdán na sabhdáin Genitive an tsabhdáin na sabhdán Dative leis an sabhdán don sabhdán leis na sabhdáin

Derived terms

• bansabhdán m (“sultana”)
• sabhdánach m (“sultana raisin”)
• sabhdánacht f (“sultanate”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
sabhdán	shabhdán after an, tsabhdán	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “sabhdán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “sultan”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “sabdán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “sabhdán”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm