Uthman ( ar, عثمان, translit=ʿUthmān), also spelled Othman, is a male Arabic given nameOrigin of the name USMAN Names with the general meaning of "wise, most powerful, intuitive". It is popular as a male given name among
Muslims
Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...
. 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
Urdu (;"Urdu" '' 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.
Rashidun
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caliph and son-in-law of the prophet
Muhammad
Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the mon ...
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 ...
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Uthman al-Asghar
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 ...
, one of the sons of
Ali ibn Abi Talib
ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam. ...
Ali ibn Abi Talib
ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam. ...
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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.
* Uthman, a Hafsid ruler.
* Uthman ibn Ali (Bey of Tunis), the sixth leader of the Husainid Dynasty and the ruler of Tunisia briefly in 1814.
* Othman Al Omeir, 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 ...
, a former Chief Minister of the state of Johor in Malaysia.
* Othmane Senadjki, a former journalist and edito-in-chief in Algeria.
* Othman Wok (1924–2017), Singaporean politician
Middle name
* Al-Aziz Uthman, the second son of Saladin and the second Ayyubid Sultan of Egypt
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Azalina Othman Said
Dato' Sri Azalina binti Othman Said ( Jawi: ازلينا بنت عثمان سعيد; born 31 December 1963) is a Malaysian politician and lawyer who has served as the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department from July 2015 to the collapse ...
Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...
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 Ung ...
, businesswoman and supporter of bobbin lace
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Uthman ibn Hunaif
ʿUthmān ibn Ḥunayf (Arabic: عثمان بن حنيف) was one of the companions of Muhammad (Sm). According to Shia belief, he did not give allegiance to Abu Bakr, until Ali supposedly did so. He narrated the Hadith of the blind man.
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, Companions of the Prophet
Fiction
* Othman, 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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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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 (suc ...