different between queen vs sultana

English

Alternative forms

• queene, quene, queyne (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English quene, queen, cwen, from Old English cw?n (“queen”), from Proto-West Germanic *kw?ni, from Proto-Germanic *kw?niz (“woman”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?énh?s (“woman”). Cognate with Scots queen, wheen (“queen”), Old Saxon qu?n ("wife"; > Middle Low German quene (“elderly woman”)), Dutch kween (“woman past child-bearing age”), Swedish kvinna (“woman”), Danish kvinde (“woman”), Icelandic kvon (“wife”), Gothic ???????????????? (q?ns, “wife”), Norwegian dialectal kvån (“wife”). Related to Old English cwene (“woman; female serf, quean”), see quean. Generally eclipsed non-native Middle English regina (“queen”), borrowed from Latin r?g?na (“queen”) (see Modern English regina). Doublet of gyne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwi?n/, [k?w?i?n], enPR: kw?n
• Rhymes: -i?n
• Homophone: quean

Noun

queen (plural queens)

1. A female monarch. Example: Queen Victoria.
2. The wife or widow of a king.

3. (chess) The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
4. (card games) A playing card with the letter "Q" and the image of a queen on it, the twelfth card in a given suit.
5. A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carom.
6. A powerful or forceful female person.
7. (LGBT, slang, often derogatory) An effeminate male homosexual. (See usage notes.)
   • (Can we date this quote?), Bebe Scarpi, quoted in 2007, Stephan Cohen, The Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York ?ISBN, page 196:

     Despite one's opinion of Sylvia I can attest to the purity of her intent and dedication, and, no one will dare deny she is one gutsy queen.

8. (LGBT, slang) Ellipsis of drag queen.
9. A reproductive female animal in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
10. An adult female cat valued for breeding. See also tom.
11. A queen olive.
    • 1984, United States International Trade Commission, Bottled green olives from Spain (page A-24)

      Prices for the two main types of Spanish style green olives - manzanillas and queens - vary according to the size of the crop of each. In some years queens will be more expensive than manzanillas […]

12. A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., esp. Danaus gilippus).

Usage notes

• (LGBT): The term can be either derogatory or a self-identification. (Compare nigger.)
• (LGBT): Some of the people who were historically (in the late 1960s and 1970s) described as "queens" or "drag queens" or "street queens" are now sometimes considered transgender, especially when their gender identity is female or non-binary/genderqueer rather than male. Some people, like Sylvia Rivera, self-identified as both a "transgender person" and a "street queen". Drag queens, too, can have any gender identity.

Synonyms

• (female monarch): queen regnant, Regina (the reigning queen, formal)
• (wife of a king): queen consort, Regina (the reigning queen, formal)
• (LGBT): See Thesaurus:male homosexual
• (playing card): bitch, cowgirl, girl, lady, mop squeezer

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? American Sign Language: G@Shoulder-PalmDown G@Abdomen-PalmDown
• Sikaiana: kuini

Translations

See also

Verb

queen (third-person singular simple present queens, present participle queening, simple past and past participle queened)

1. To make a queen.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To act the part of a queen; to queen it.
3. (chess) To promote a pawn, usually to a queen.
4. (beekeeping) To provide with a new queen.
5. (beekeeping) To be the queen of a colony.
6. (BDSM, slang, transitive, of a female) To sit on the face of (a partner) to receive oral sex.
   • 2000, "Lorelei", The Mistress Manual: The Good Girl's Guide to Female Dominance

     Try Queening him. Have him lie on his back while you sit on his face (make sure he has an airway through either his mouth or his nose).

Derived terms

• queen out

Translations

Anagrams

• quene

Middle English

Noun

queen

1. Alternative form of quene (“queen”)

English

Etymology

1580s, Italian sultana, feminine of sultano. Displaced existing sultaness.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?l?t??.n?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?l?tæ.n?/, /?s?l?t?.n?/
• Rhymes: -??n?

Noun

sultana (plural sultanas)

1. A pale yellow raisin made from a seedless grape.

   Synonym: (American English) golden raisin

2. A wife or mistress of a sultan.

   Synonym: sultaness

3. A female ruler of a sultanate.

   Synonym: sultaness

4. A type of viol, a cither viol.
5. An old form of necklace.

Derived terms

• sultana bird

Translations

See also

• odalisque

References

Anagrams

• alaunts, anlauts

Italian

Noun

sultana f (plural sultane, masculine sultano)

1. sultan (female relative of sultan)

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sul?ta?na/

Noun

sultana f

1. female equivalent of sultan; a queen; a female monarch or ruler, or the wife of a male one

   Synonym: re?ina

Usage notes

• The word is rare for the queens of modern internationally recognised states, but is otherwise still used in a broader or historical sense.

Portuguese

Noun

sultana f (plural sultanas)

1. sultana (wife of a sultan)

Spanish

Noun

sultana f (plural sultanas)

1. sultana

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sultana/
• Hyphenation: sul?ta?na

Etymology

From Malay sultana, ultimately from Arabic ?????????? (sul??na).

Noun

sultana (masculine sultan)

1. female equivalent of sultan; a queen; a female monarch or ruler of islamic sultanates
2. (historical) The female ruler of the Islamicized sultanate polities of the Philippines. A notable example is the Sultanate of Sulu.

   Synonyms: reyna, dayang, sultan, hari, raha, raja, ladya, lakan, datu

See also

• reyna
• dayang
• sultan
• Gat
• poon
• Panginoon