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sultana

sul·ta·na

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Italian sultana

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Italian · borrowed fromsultana
English todaysultana

1580s, Italian sultana (feminine of sultano). Displaced existing sultaness. Doublet of sultan and soldan.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.