Osmanian

adj, name

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Synonym of Ottoman.
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The Osmanya script.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Osman + -ian, after Osman I, founder of the Ottoman Empire.

Etymology 2

From Osman + -ian, after Osman Yusuf Kenadid, who invented it in the 1920s.

Related phrases

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