سَطَهَن
sáṭahan (pl. seḷoṭíneʰ, saľáṭinaʰ)
basic morphological information

n. (m.)

sultan
султан
سلطان
LS 349; CSOL I 646; CSOL II 578
text examples

a. wa-hímaˁk yeˁómer έˀɛfo énneʰ sáṭahan yeḥóre men ˁážeʰ di-téken hes deš ṣándaľeʰ ‘And I have heard people saying that the sultan is looking for the woman whom this sandal would fit’ (CSOL II 20:47)

b. ʸheʰ ékob wa-sáľľam ḷe-sáṭahan wa-díˀʸheʰ ḷe-gaľľásaʰ ‘He entered (the house) and greeted the sultan and his court’ (CSOL II 1:87)

root
etymology

From Arb. sulṭān- ‘ruler’. Also in Mhr. selṭān ‘sultan’, Jib. suṭún ‘sultan’. For the loss of -l- in Soqotri and Jibbali see Kogan–Bulakh 2019:285 and Rubin 2018:28–30 respectively.