عثمان

Arabic

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʕuθ.maːn/

Proper noun

عُثْمَان • (ʕuṯmān) m

1. a male given name, Uthman; Osman
2. (Islam) ʿUṯmān ibn ʿAffān, recognized as the Islamic prophet's third rightly-guided successor in most of Sunni Islam

Declension

Declension of noun عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān)

Singular	basic singular diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	—	عُثْمَان ʕuṯmān	—
Nominative	—	عُثْمَانُ ʕuṯmānu	—
Accusative	—	عُثْمَانَ ʕuṯmāna	—
Genitive	—	عُثْمَانَ ʕuṯmāna	—

Derived terms

• عُثْمَانِيّ (ʕuṯmāniyy)

Descendants

• → English: Uthman, Usman, Osman
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܥܘܿܬ݂ܡܵܢܵܝܵܐ (ˁōṯmānāyā)
• → Azerbaijani: Osman
• → Bengali: উসমান (uśoman)
• → Kazakh: Осман (Osman)
• → Maguindanao: Usman
• → Malay: Usman
  • Indonesian: Usman, Oesman
• → Maranao: Osman, Usman
• → Ottoman Turkish: عثمان (ʿosman)
  • Turkish: Osman
• → Persian: عثمان (Osmân)
  • Tajik: Усмон (Usmon)
• → Russian: Осман (Osman)
• → Urdu: عثمان

See also

• أَبُو بَكْر (ʔabū bakr)
• عَلِيّ (ʕaliyy)
• عُمَر (ʕumar)

 

• رَافِضِيّ (rāfiḍiyy)

 

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān).

Proper noun

عثمان • (ʿosman)

1. Osman, a male given name which usually refers to Osman Bey, the founder of the Ottoman Empire

Derived terms

• آل عثمان (al ʿosman, “Ottoman dynasty”)
• عثمانجق (ʿosmancık, “Osmancık”)
• عثمانلوجه (ʿosmanlıca, “Ottoman language”)
• عثمانلی (ʿosmanlı, “Ottoman”)
• عثمانيه (ʿosmaniye, “Osmaniye”)
• عثمانی (ʿosmanî, “Ottoman”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: Osman

Further reading

• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “Osman”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1017
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “عثمان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[2], Vienna, column 3216
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عثمان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1285

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔus.ˈmɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔʊs.mɑ́ːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔʊs.mɑ́ːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔʊs.mɑ́ːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔus.mɔ́ːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔos.mɒ́ːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔus.mɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading?	usmān
Dari reading?	usmān
Iranian reading?	osmân
Tajik reading?	usmon

Proper noun

Dari	عثمان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	Усмон

عثمان • ('osmân)

1. (Islam) Uthman bin Affan, third Sunni Islamic caliph and a companion of Muhammad
2. Osman, any of a number of Ottoman sultans
3. a male given name from Arabic

See also

• عثمانی ('osmâni)
• ابوبکر (abu-bakr)
• عمر ('omar)
• علی ('ali)