Uthman (name)

Uthman
عثمان
Calligraphic seal featuring Caliph Uthman's name, on display in the Hagia Sophia
GenderMale
Origin
Word/nameArabic
Meaningyoung bustard, young serpent [1]
Region of originArabia
Other names
Variant formsUthman (Arabic: عُثمَان)
Osman (Turkic)
Usman (Persian, Urdu)
Osman (Bosnian)
Ousmane (Francophone West Africa)

Uthman (Arabic: عُثمَانُ, romanized: Uṯmānᵘ), also spelled Othman, is a male Arabic given name with the literal meaning of a young bustard, serpent,[1] or dragon.[2] It is popular as a male given name among Muslims. 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 Urdu, as well as some Arabic dialects.

Originally the name often occurred as a nasab or patronymic 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

Middle name

Surname and patronymic

Fiction

  • Othman, a fictional historical character in the Christopher Paolini book Inheritance.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Lane, William Edward (1874). An Arabic-English Lexicon, Book I, Part 5. London: Williams and Norgate. p. 1954.
  2. ↑ "Uthman: Discover the Meaning Behind the Name". Retrieved 2025-01-11.
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