Ottoman
pronunciation
How to pronounce Ottoman in British English:
UK [ˈɔtəmən]
How to pronounce Ottoman in American English:
US [ˈɑtəmən]
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- Noun:
- thick cushion used as a seat
- a low stool to rest the feet of a seated person
Word Origin
- Ottoman
- 1580s (n.), c. 1600 (adj.), from French Ottoman, from Italian Ottomano, from Arabic 'Uthmani "of or belonging to 'Uthman," Arabic masc. proper name, which in Turkish is pronounced Othman (see Osmanli), name of the founder of the dynasty and empire. Ending altered in Italian by formation of a new false singular, because -i was a plural inflection in Italian. Byron used the more correct form Othman, and a few writers have followed him. The type of couch so called (1806) because one reclined on it, which was associated with Eastern customs (see couch).
Example
- 1. So what leverage does turkey actually have over its erstwhile ottoman dominion ?
- 2. Through the long ottoman era , turks and russians fought many bloody wars .
- 3. The natural state of mesopotamia was mirrored in the three ottoman vilayets of kurdish mosul , sunni baghdad , and shiite basra .
- 4. Armed with a firman , or ottoman permit , and financed by a group of rich backers in berlin , humann and his team , in 1878 , began excavating a site in bergama , near the modern city of izmir on the aegean coast of western turkey .
- 5. Ree sat on the couch and put her feet up on a massive leather ottoman .