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.
雙語例句
1. The Sultan was still nominally the Chief of Staff.
蘇丹仍是名義上的參謀長。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The first comer was the Sultan himself.
第一個來的人是蘇丹自己。
來自柯林斯例句
3. the Sultan of Brunei
文萊蘇丹
來自《權威詞典》
4. Everyone was entirely subject to the whim of the Sultan.
所有人都完全聽命於蘇丹王,由著他隨心所欲.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. The sultan's wives and concubines live in the harem.