sultan: [16] Arabic sultān meant ‘ruler’. It was derived from Aramaic shultānā ‘power’, which in turn was based on the verb shəlēt ‘have power’. English acquired the word via medieval Latin sultānus. The Italian version of the word is sultano, whose feminine form has given English sultana ‘sultan’s wife’ [16]. The word was applied to a variety of small raisin (originally in full sultana raisin) in the early 19th century.
sultan (n.)
1550s, from Middle French sultan "ruler of Turkey" (16c.), ultimately from Arabic sultan "ruler, prince, monarch, king, queen," originally "power, dominion." According to Klein's sources, this is from Aramaic shultana "power," from shelet "have power." Earlier English word was soldan, soudan (c. 1300), used indiscriminately of Muslim rulers and sovereigns, from Old French souldan, soudan, from Medieval Latin sultanus. Related: Sultanic.
双语例句
1. The Sultan was still nominally the Chief of Staff.
苏丹仍是名义上的参谋长。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The first comer was the Sultan himself.
第一个来的人是苏丹自己。
来自柯林斯例句
3. the Sultan of Brunei
文莱苏丹
来自《权威词典》
4. Everyone was entirely subject to the whim of the Sultan.
所有人都完全听命于苏丹王,由着他随心所欲.
来自《简明英汉词典》
5. The sultan's wives and concubines live in the harem.
