{"id":823417,"date":"2023-11-26T11:57:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T08:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=823417"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:18:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T08:18:40","slug":"osthman-sthinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2023\/11\/26\/osthman-sthinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Os(th)man S(th)inking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where does the word Ottoman come from?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"German Coastguard - We are Sinking (English subtitles) HD\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7C-vYY3SBDE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you remember this commercial with a German coast guard on his first day who receives an SOS message by radio saying: \u201cHelp us we are sinking\u201d. The German coast guard answers back: \u201cVat are you tinking about?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Osman is a Turkish name and Osmanl\u0131 was the name of the empire ruled by Osman&#8217;s family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ottoman script was etymological just like English, unlike the Modern Turkish script which is phonological, that is written just as pronounced. Osman is actually spelled in Ottoman Turkish as Othman. It&#8217;s read as Osman while written as Othman. Just like reading \u201casthma\u201d as \u201casma\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;th&#8221; is pronounced like an &#8220;s&#8221; in Persian and Ottoman Turkish, while it is pronounced as a \u201ct\u201d like people in the Italic Peninsula opted for in the Middle Ages for the name Othman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voiceless \u201cth\u201d is a dental fricative and the closest to that is either the voiceless coronal sibilant \u201cs\u201d or the voiceless dental plosive sound \u201ct\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-rank-math-faq-block\"><div class=\"rank-math-faq-item\"><h3 class=\"rank-math-question\">Where does the word Ottoman come from?<\/h3><div class=\"rank-math-answer\">Ottoman script was etymological just like English and Osman was actually written as Othman in Ottoman Turkish.<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where does the word Ottoman come from? Do you remember this commercial with a German coast guard on his first day who receives an SOS message by radio saying: \u201cHelp us we are sinking\u201d. The German coast guard answers back: \u201cVat are you tinking about?\u201d Osman is a Turkish name and Osmanl\u0131 was the name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":45905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2939],"tags":[1416],"class_list":["post-823417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultureart","tag-ottoman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}