sultan meaning in Punjabi
ਸੁਲਤਾਨ sultān
/ˈsʌltən/
sultan in Punjabi: ਸੁਲਤਾਨ (sultān). In English, sultan means the holder of a secular office, formally subordinate to, but de facto the power behind the throne of, the caliph.
Punjabi words for sultan
- a sultan
- ਸੁਲਤਾਨ sultān
English meaning of sultan
- noun The holder of a secular office, formally subordinate to, but de facto the power behind the throne of, the caliph.
- noun A hereditary ruler in various Muslim states (sultanate), varying from petty principalities (as in Yemen), often vassal of a greater ruler, to independent realms, such as Oman, Brunei, Morocco (until 1957) or an empire such as the Turkish Ottoman Empire.
- noun A variant of solitaire, played with two decks of cards.
- noun A breed of chicken originating in Turkey, kept primarily in gardens for ornamental reasons. See: sultan (chicken).
sultan in other languages
- sultan in Hindi
- sultan in Tamil
- sultan in Marathi
- sultan in Urdu
- sultan in Bengali
- sultan in Telugu
- sultan in Malayalam
- sultan in Gujarati
- sultan in Assamese
- sultan in Pashto
- sultan in Tagalog
- sultan in Arabic
- sultan in Malay
- sultan in Indonesian
- sultan in Thai
- sultan in Vietnamese
- sultan in Myanmar
Questions about sultan in Punjabi
- What is the meaning of sultan in Punjabi?
- Sultan in Punjabi is ਸੁਲਤਾਨ (sultān).
- sultan ਦਾ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਕੀ ਅਰਥ ਹੈ?
- Sultan: ਸੁਲਤਾਨ (sultān).
- What does sultan mean in English?
- Sultan means the holder of a secular office, formally subordinate to, but de facto the power behind the throne of, the caliph.
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Punjabi words from Wiktionary's Punjabi entries whose English meaning is “sultan”: ਸੁਲਤਾਨ. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: sultan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Punjabi words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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