different between sovereign vs sultana

English

Alternative forms

• soveraign, soveraigne (archaic)
• sovran (archaic)
• sovring (pronunciation spelling)

Etymology

From Middle English sovereyn, from Old French soverain (whence also modern French souverain), from Vulgar Latin *super?nus (compare Italian sovrano, Spanish soberano) from Latin super (“above”). Spelling influenced by folk-etymology association with reign. Doublet of soprano, from the same Latin root via Italian. See also suzerain, foreign.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?v.??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?v(?)??n/
• Hyphenation: sov?e?reign

Adjective

sovereign (comparative more sovereign, superlative most sovereign)

1. Exercising power of rule.

2. Exceptional in quality.

3. (now rare, pharmacology) Extremely potent or effective (of a medicine, remedy etc.).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:

     The soueraigne weede betwixt two marbles plaine / She pownded small, and did in peeces bruze, / And then atweene her lilly handes twaine, / Into his wound the iuyce thereof did scruze […]

   • a sovereign remedy

   • Such a sovereign influence has this passion upon the regulation of the lives and actions of men.

4. Having supreme, ultimate power.

   Gentlemen, may I introduce the Sovereign, Her Royal Highness, and Most Imperial Majesty, Empress Elizabeth of Vicron.
5. Princely; royal.
   • c1610, William Shakespeare, A Winters Tale, V.i:

     You pity not the state, nor the remembrance of his most sovereign name.

6. Predominant; greatest; utmost; paramount.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     We acknowledge him [God] our sovereign good.

Synonyms

• autonomous
• supreme

Derived terms

• sovereignly
• sovereign citizen
• sovereign state

Translations

Noun

sovereign (plural sovereigns)

1. A monarch; the ruler of a country.
   • 1785, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

     No question is to be made but that the bed of the Missisippi[sic] belongs to the sovereign, that is, to the nation.

2. One who is not a subject to a ruler or nation.
3. A gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling but in practice used as a bullion coin.
4. A very large champagne bottle with the capacity of about 25 liters, equivalent to 33? standard bottles.
5. Any butterfly of the tribe Nymphalini, or genus Basilarchia, as the ursula and the viceroy.
6. (Britain, slang) A large, garish ring; a sovereign ring.
   • 2004, December 11, "Birkenhead, Merseyside" BBC Voices recording (0:06:52)

     No, someone who wears loads of sovereigns as well loads of gold and has uh a curly perm and peroxide blonde hair, orange, orange sunbed skin and a fringe like this blow-dried to death, that’s a ‘scally’.

Hyponyms

• (monarch): king, queen

Derived terms

• sovereignty

Descendants

• ? Irish: sabhran
• ? Russian: ??????? (soveren)
• ? Scottish Gaelic: sòbharan
• ? Welsh: sofren

Translations

See also

• half sovereign

Verb

sovereign (third-person singular simple present sovereigns, present participle sovereigning, simple past and past participle sovereigned)

1. (transitive) To rule over as a sovereign.

Anagrams

• Rovignese, virogenes

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