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Sultanate

Sul′tan-ate

,

Noun.

[Cf. F.

sultanat

.]

1.

The rule or dominion of a sultan; sultanship.

Definition 2024

Sultanate

Sultanate

See also: sultanate

German

Noun

Sultanate n pl

plural of Sultanat

sultanate

sultanate

See also: Sultanate

English

Noun

sultanate ‎(plural sultanates)

A sovereign or vassal princely state - usually Muslim where the ruler is styled sultan.
I'm going to Brunei to study politics in a sultanate.‎

Derived terms

Sultanate of Oman

Related terms

sultanic

Translations

state ruled by a sultan

Arabic: سَلْطَنَة ‎(salṭana)
Armenian: սուլթանություն (hy) ‎(sultʿanutʿyun)
Catalan: soldanat m
Crimean Tatar: saltanat
Czech: sultanát m
Danish: sultanat n
Dutch: sultanaat (nl) n
Estonian: sultanaat
Finnish: sulttaanikunta
French: sultanat (fr) m
German: Sultanat n
Greek: σουλτανάτο (el) n ‎(soultanáto)
Hungarian: szultanátus
Ido: sultanio (io)
Indonesian: kesultanan (id)
Irish: sabhdánacht f
Italian: sultanato m

Kumyk: салтанат ‎(saltanat)
Latvian: sultanāts m
Lithuanian: sultonatas m
Marathi: सल्तनत f ‎(saltanata)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: sultanat n

Nynorsk: sultanat n
Polish: sułtanat (pl) m
Portuguese: sultanato (pt) m, sultanado m
Romanian: sultanat (ro) n
Russian: султана́т (ru) m ‎(sultanát), султа́нство (ru) n ‎(sultánstvo)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: султа́нство n, султа̀на̄т m

Roman: sultánstvo n, sultànāt (sh) m
Slovak: sultanát m
Slovene: sultanat (sl) m
Spanish: sultanía f, sultanato (es) m
Swedish: sultanat c
Turkish: saltanat (tr), sultanlık (tr)