sultana
noun/sʌlˈtɑːnə/
/sʌlˈtænə/
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- the wife, mother, sister or daughter of a sultan
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in sense (2)): from Italian, feminine of sultano, from medieval Latin sultanus, from Arabic sulṭān ‘power, ruler’. Sense (1) dates from the mid 19th cent.
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