Word.ws English Dictionary

ostikan

ostikan noun: any of the Arab governors of Armenia.

Noun

ostikan (plural ostikans)

  1. (historical) Any of the Arab governors of Armenia.
    • The Sadjid ostikans were eager to foster mistrust amongst the nakharars, seeking to destabilize Bagratuni rule and to usurp the Bagratuni king's right to send taxes to the caliph.2007, Lynn Jones, Between Islam and Byzantium: Aght'amar and the Visual Construction of Medieval Armenian Rulership

Forms of ostikan

pluralostikans

Origin of ostikan

Transliteration of Old Armenian ոստիկան (ostikan).

Words formed from ostikan

Questions about ostikan

What does ostikan mean?
Ostikan means any of the Arab governors of Armenia.
What part of speech is ostikan?
Ostikan is a noun.
What is the plural of ostikan?
The plural of ostikan is ostikans.

Words near ostikan in the dictionary

  1. ostiaries
  2. ostiarii
  3. ostiarius
  4. ostiary
  5. Ostic
  6. ostikan
  7. ostikanate
  8. ostikanates
  9. ostikans
  10. ostinati
  11. ostinato

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ostikan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ostikan.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ostikan. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.