sultan
noun
the sovereign of an Islamic country.
sultanic
-
a word derived from
sultan.
Example Sentences
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First, he has modified the law of sultanic succession by giving women the right to rule.
From The New Yorker ● May 24, 2019
In Tarçın Gezegeni, synths and drums take us back to that decade, with the sultanic melody of a toy melodica creating a weirdly elegant and hard-drinking piece of work.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 15, 2012
Inside the palace he found a sultanic shambles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their intense, expressionist works did not flirt, like Klimt's gilded sultanic pictures, with bourgeois prettiness and what the catalog calls "proto-psychedelic sweetness."
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh yes, I confess my errors, I abjure my pagan vanities, and my sultanic principles.
From French and Oriental Love in a Harem by Paul Avril
