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Certain: The standard etymology in the RAE dictionary and in Corriente; no serious doubt.Power & war · Common

sultán

sultan, a Muslim sovereign, especially the Ottoman onesoberano musulmán, sobre todo el otomano

Comes from Arabic

سُلْطَان

sulṭān

“power, authority”«poder, autoridad»

Arabic today says

سُلْطَان

sulṭān

And it still does

Root

س ل ط

s-l-ṭ

The article

It came in without the article.

The story

Before it was a title, sulṭān meant "power"; sulṭa, "authority", comes from the same root.Antes de ser un título, sulṭān significaba «poder»; de la misma raíz viene sulṭa, «autoridad».

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