Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An Ottoman Turk.
- noun Ottoman Turkish.
- adjective Ottoman.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to the empire of Turkey.
- noun A member of the reigning dynasty of Turkey.
- noun A Turk subject to the Sultan of Turkey. See
Ottoman .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Turkish official; one of the dominant tribe of Turks; loosely, any Turk.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Ottoman
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a Turk (especially a Turk who is a member of the tribe of Osman I)
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Osmanli is calm, sedate, polished, perhaps a little effeminate; the Persian is lively, cordial, witty, and amiable; perhaps a little boisterous, for he is still an eelyat.
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But a considerable and energetic element among them belonged to the nervous Levantine type of Osmanli, which is as little minded to compromise as any Old Turk, though from a different motive.
The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey Nevill Forbes 1906
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For the Osmanli is a warrior, and his nation is a warrior tribe; his belief is too simple for civilization, his courage too blind and devoted for the military operations of our times, his heart too easily roused by the bloodthirsty instincts of the fanatic, and too ready to bear the misfortunes of life with the grave indifference of the fatalist.
Paul Patoff 1881
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The Ottoman Turks, or "Osmanli," were originally merely one of the many
The New World of Islam Lothrop Stoddard 1916
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Palestine was a linked and protected province of that same Osmanli Dawlet. 2 and 3 are the unified provinces of the Mughal Dawlet.
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Palestine was a linked and protected province of that same Osmanli Dawlet. 2 and 3 are the unified provinces of the Mughal Dawlet.
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The Uighur was a linked province to the Osmanli Dawlet.
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The Uighur was a linked province to the Osmanli Dawlet.
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The word, which comes of a very ancient house, was applied to the present capital about the time of its conquest by the Osmanli Turks A.H. 923 = 1517. 370
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Mr. Lane says “Not begun earlier than the last fourth of the fifteenth century nor ended before the first fourth of the sixteenth,” i.e. soon after Egypt was conquered by Selim, Sultan of the Osmanli
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