khatun

plural khatuns

1. historicalA lady or wife in certain Central Asian communities.

   The Khatun covered her face, then grabbed at the arm of a servant, who quickly poured more kumiss into Bortai's goblet.

   2014, Pamela Sargent, Ruler of the Sky

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   For example, according to Ibn al-Jawzi, thew wife of the caliph al-Muqtafi, Fatima Khatun, daughter of the Seljuq sultan Muhammad, could read and write.

   2003, Carole Hillenbrand, “Women in the Seljuq Period”, in Women in Iran from the Rise of Islam to 1800, page 114

   Furthermore, also noteworthy is the account (from the ninth century) of a khatun, sister to the Khazar king, who convinced the starving Khazars to submit to God's will.

   2015, Boris Zhivkov, Khazaria in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries, page 80

plural Khatuns

1. A surname.