Uthman ( ar, عثمان, translit=ʿUthmān), also spelled Othman, is a male
Arabic given name
Arabic language names have historically been based on a long naming system. Many people from the Arabic-speaking and also Muslim countries have not had given name, given/middle name, middle/family names but rather a chain of names. This system re ...
Origin of the name USMAN Names with the general meaning of "wise, most powerful, intuitive". It is popular as a male given name among
Muslims
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. It is also transliterated as Osman or Usman, particularly when the name occurs in languages which either have no /θ/ sound or where the character ⟨ ﺙ⟩ is pronounced differently, such as Persian, Bosnian, Turkish, and
patronymic
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) in the names of children of people called Uthman, as in 'Ibn Uthman' ('Son of Uthman') or 'Bint Uthman' ('Daughter of Uthman'). From there, it also developed into a surname.
Given name
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Uthman ibn Affan
Uthman ibn Affan ( ar, عثمان بن عفان, ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān; – 17 June 656), also spelled by Colloquial Arabic, Turkish and Persian rendering Osman, was a second cousin, son-in-law and notable companion of the Islamic prop ...
, third Rashidun caliph and son-in-law of the prophet
Muhammad
Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 Common Era, CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Muhammad in Islam, Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet Divine inspiration, di ...
Abu Bakr
Abu Bakr Abdallah ibn Uthman Abi Quhafa (; – 23 August 634) was the senior companion and was, through his daughter Aisha, a father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, as well as the first caliph of Islam. He is known with the honor ...
Uthman ibn Naissa
Uthman ibn Naissa () better known as Munuza, was a Berber governor depicted in different contradictory chronicles during the Umayyad conquest of Hispania.
Munuza in Asturias
One account says that he was the governor of Gijón (or possibly León) ...
, a Berber Wāli of Narbonne and effective Muslim governor of Septimania.
* Uthman I, a Marinid ruler.
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Uthman
Uthman ibn Affan ( ar, عثمان بن عفان, ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān; – 17 June 656), also spelled by Colloquial Arabic, Turkish and Persian rendering Osman, was a second cousin, son-in-law and notable companion of the Islamic prop ...
, a Hafsid ruler.
* Uthman ibn Ali (Bey of Tunis), the sixth leader of the Husainid Dynasty and the ruler of Tunisia briefly in 1814.
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Othman Al Omeir
Othman Al Omeir (born 1950) (Arabic:عثمان العمير) is a Saudi Arabia, Saudi-born British businessman, journalist and editor. He is considered to be close to Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, King Salman of Saudi Arabia and former rulers, i ...
, a Saudi-born British businessman, journalist and editor.
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Othman Saat
Othman Saat (4 April 1927 – 27 October 2007) was a Malaysian politician from the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), and later, Spirit of 46 Malay Party (S46), who served as the 11th Menteri Besar of Johor in Malaysia.
Political ca ...
, a former Chief Minister of the state of Johor in Malaysia.
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Othmane Senadjki
Othmane Senadjki ( ar, عثمان سناجقي) (born in Khemis El Khechna on 23 May 1959 and died in Béni Messous on 29 December 2010) was an Algerian journalist and editor-in-chief of El Khabar newspaper.
Early life
Senadjki was born in 1959 ...
, a former journalist and edito-in-chief in Algeria.
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Othman Wok
Othman bin Wok ( Jawi: عثمان بن ووك; b. 8 October 1924 – d. 17 April 2017), often known as Othman Wok, was a Singaporean politician who served as Minister of Social Affairs between 1963 and 1977. After retiring from politics, he wa ...
(1924–2017), Singaporean politician
Middle name
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Al-Aziz Uthman
Al-Malik Al-Aziz Uthman ibn Salah Ad-Din Yusuf (1171 – 29 November 1198) was the second Ayyubid Sultan of Egypt. He was the second son of Saladin.
Before his death, Saladin had divided his dominions amongst his kin: Al-Afdal received Palest ...
, the second son of Saladin and the second Ayyubid Sultan of Egypt
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Azalina Othman Said
Malay titles#Dato' Sri, Dato' Sri Azalina binti Othman Said (Jawi alphabet, Jawi: ازلينا بنت عثمان سعيد; born 31 December 1963) is a Malaysian people, Malaysian politician and lawyer who has served as the Minister in the Prim ...
, a tourism minister of Malaysia
Surname and patronymic
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Abdul Ghani Othman
Abdul Ghani bin Othman ( Jawi: عبدالغاني بن عثمان; born 14 November 1946) served as the 14th Menteri Besar of Johor in Malaysia from 1995 to 2013. He is a member of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component pa ...
, the current Menteri Besar of the state of Johor in Malaysia
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Abdul Kahar bin Othman
Abdul Kahar bin Othman (1953/1954 – 30 March 2022) was a Singaporeans, Singaporean drug trafficker who was found guilty in 2013 of two charges of trafficking a total of 66.77 grams of heroin in Singapore, and later sentenced to death by the H ...
, a Singaporean criminal
executed
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for
drug trafficking
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in
Singapore
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Arwa Othman Arwa Othman is a Yemeni writer, journalist, human rights activist and former Minister of Culture (2014–15) in the cabinet of President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi. Human Rights Watch has cited Othman as one of the "most outspoken activists calling for h ...
, Yemeni writer, journalist, human rights activist and former Minister of Culture
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Tuanku Sultan Otteman II Sultan Otteman II Perkasa 'Alam Shah ibni al-Marhum Sultan 'Amal ud-din al-Sani Perkasa 'Alam Shah (1945-1967) was a former Sultanate of Deli, Sultan of Deli, in which the kingdom's capital was Medan, in North Sumatra. He was born to Sultan 'Amal ud ...
, a former Sultan of Deli
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Barbara Uthmann
Barbara Uthmann (born around 1514 in Annaberg in the Ore Mountains in Germany; died 14 January 1575, also in Annaberg) was considered to be one of the greatest supporters of bobbin lace making (probably incorrectly, as explained by Reinhart Unger ...
, businesswoman and supporter of bobbin lace
* Uthman ibn Hunaif, Companions of the Prophet
Fiction
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Othman
Uthman ibn Affan ( ar, عثمان بن عفان, ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān; – 17 June 656), also spelled by Colloquial Arabic, Turkish and Persian rendering Osman, was a second cousin, son-in-law and notable companion of the Islamic prop ...
, a fictional historical character in the Christopher Paolini book ''Inheritance''.
See also
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Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...
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Uthman Qur'an
Uthman ibn Affan ( ar, عثمان بن عفان, ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān; – 17 June 656), also spelled by Colloquial Arabic, Turkish and Persian rendering Osman, was a second cousin, son-in-law and notable companion of the Islamic prop ...
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Usman Institute of Technology
UIT University (formerly Usman Institute of Technology (UIT)) is a not-for profit institute. UIT university's campus is located at the intersection of University Road and Abul Hasan Isphahani Road, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi, Pakistan.
On 18 Dec ...
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Usmanu Danfodio University
Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (UDUS), also known as UDUSOK, is a public research university located in the city of Sokoto, north western Part of Nigeria. It is one of the initial twelve universities founded in Nigeria by the federal govern ...
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Osmanya script
The Osmanya script ( so, Farta Cismaanya 𐒍𐒖𐒇𐒂𐒖 𐒋𐒘𐒈𐒑𐒛𐒒𐒕𐒖), also known as Far Soomaali (𐒍𐒖𐒇 𐒘𐒝𐒈𐒑𐒛𐒘, "Somali writing") and, in Arabic, as ''al-kitābah al-ʿuthmānīyah'' (الكتا ...
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Osmania University
Osmania University is a collegiate public state university located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Mir Osman Ali Khan, the 7th Nizam of Hyderabad in 1918 , He released a farman to establish OSMANIA UNIVERSITY on the day of 28 August 1918. It ...
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Saidina Uthman Bin Affan Mosque
Saidina Uthman Bin Affan Mosque is a mosque in Bandar Tun Razak near Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This mosque was opened on 1988 by the eighth Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Sultan Iskandar of Johor. It was named after Muhammad's third Caliph
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