(Osmanlı Dönemi) Kahr ve tegallüb mânasında masdardır. Her şeyin yavuz, şiddet ve satvetine denir. Kelimenin aslı "selit" olup, cem'i sultandır. Selit ise, zeytinyağının ismidir. Zeytinyağı kandilinin ışığıyla ışıklandırma yapıldığı gibi, padişâh ve vali dahi şule-i adl ve zabt ü ihtimamıyla memleketini tenvir etmek münâsebetiyle onlara
A hereditary ruler in various Muslim states (sultanate), varying from petty principalities (as in Indonesia and in Yemen), often vassal of a greater ruler, to independent realms, such as Oman, Brunei, or an empire such as the Turkish Ottoman Empire
Literally "Holder of Power"' a mortal Islamic king who does not claim to be a caliph; among Cainites; a generic term for the preeminent vampire in a city or other large domain (equivalent to a European prince)
the sultana bird or (African) purple swamphen, purple moorhen or purple gallinule, officially named (in Latin) porphyrio porphyrio, a bird species of the rallidae family