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English word origin

Etymology of Osman

Inherited from Middle English, from Old Norse Ásmundr, from áss (“a god”) + mund (“protection, hand”).

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Source etymology 1

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name

A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Osmond, rare in English. · Charles J. Osman (1851–1922), Canadian businessman and politician · Arthur Arnold Osman (1893–1972), British nephrologist

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

Inherited from Middle English, from Old Norse Ásmundr, from áss (“a god”) + mund (“protection, hand”).

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Source etymology 2

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name

Osman I (d. 1323/4), founder of the Ottoman Empire. · Osman II (1604–1622), sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1618 until his death. · Osman III (1699–1757), sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1754 until his death. · A male given name from Iranian Persian

noun

Synonym of Ottoman (“member of the Ottoman dynasty”). · Synonym of Ottoman (“citizen of the Ottoman Empire”).

adj

Synonym of Ottoman.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish عثمان (osmân), from Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān). Doublet of Uthman and Ottoman. Widely used as an anglicization of cognate names across the Islamic world, including Somali Cismaan, Persian عثمان (usmān /osmân), Malay Usman, and even Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān) itself.

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