Ottoman

proper noun

1. 1

   Archaic form of Osman, the name borne by Osman I (d. 1323/4), founder of the Ottoman Empire.

   In the beginning of this yere Sulton Solyman Pac called yͤ great Turke which was but the. viii. of the ligne of Ottoman, the firſt that toke vpō hym to be a great capitain or ruler […]

   Ottoman the firſte Emperour of this Turkiſhe nation, […]

   In the Firſt Place are Conditores Imperiorum; Founders of States, and Common-Wealths: Such as were Romulus, Cyrus, Cæſar, Ottoman, Iſmael.

   It is unqueſtionable, that about the year 1300 upon Aladin’s Death, Ottoman was an abſolute Soveraign […]

2. 2

   Archaic form of Osman, the name borne by Osman II (1604–1622), sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1618 until his death.

   And in the year 1618. (when Ottoman the ſecond (who ſucceeded his Uncle Muſtapha) was unſuccessful in his war againſt Poland, and was therefore ſlain by his Janizaries) […]

   After theſe reign'd […] Ottoman II. ſtrangled by the Janizaries, […]

   Oſman, or Ottoman II, […]

3. 3

   Archaic form of Osman, the name borne by Osman III (1699–1757), sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1754 until his death.

   Ottoman III.

   […] the reign of Ottoman III (reigned 1754–57) after the death of Mahmut I.

noun

1. 1

   A member of the Ottoman dynasty.

   […] the Ottomans were a dynasty like every other, subject to the same laws of the rise and fall of states.

   is trump our first ottoman president? >gilded everything >retarded, constantly scheming sons >a harem of slavic wives >elaborate headgear

2. 2

   A citizen of the Ottoman Empire.

   Nearly 250,000 Ottomans of various military ranks were taken captive by the Allied forces during World War I, which was referred to in Turkish variously as Büyük Harp, Cihan Harbi and Harb-i Umumi (or simply Seferberlik among the older generation of Turks) until World War II.

3. 3

   A citizen of the Ottoman Empire. An ethnic Turk of the Ottoman Empire.

adjective

1. 1

   Of or relating to the Ottoman dynasty or the Ottoman Empire.

2. 2

   Of or relating to the Ottoman dynasty or the Ottoman Empire. Of or relating to the ethnic Turks of the Ottoman Empire.

proper noun

1. 1

   The Ottoman Turkish language.

   […] translated into Ottoman by a certain Mehmed Efendi […]

   […] translated from Ottoman into Greek […]

   […] translated from Ottoman into Persian […]

Forms

plural

Ottomans