firman

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English

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Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish فرمان (ferman), from Persian فرمان (farmân, “command, order, decree”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

firman (plural firmans)

  1. A royal decree issued by a sovereign in certain historical Islamic states, especially by the Sultan of Turkey.
    Hyponym: hatti-sherif
    • 1821 August 8, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, Cantos III, IV, and V, London: Thomas Davison, , →OCLC, canto IV, (please specify the stanza number):
      his Sublimity's firman, The most imperative of sovereign spells, / Which every body does without who can […]
    • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 134:
      He managed to obtain from the vizier a firman bearing the Emir's personal seal and ordering all Bokharan officials to assist the party in every way possible.
    • 2005, Coleman Phillipson, International Law And The Great War:
      It will be noted that the title of Sultan was adopted partly because that of Khedive had been conferred by an Ottoman firman.

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Translations

References

  1. ^ "firman." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 2008.

Further reading

Esperanto

Adjective

firman

  1. accusative singular of firma

Finnish

Noun

firman

  1. genitive singular of firma

Anagrams

French

Noun

firman m (plural firmans)

  1. firman

Further reading

Galician

Verb

firman

  1. third-person plural present indicative of firmar

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay firman, from Classical Malay firman (“permission”), from Persian فرمان (farmân, “command, order, decree”). Doublet of permana.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɪr.man/
  • Rhymes: -man
  • Hyphenation: fir‧man

Noun

firman

  1. word of God
    Synonym: sabda
  2. (Christianity) commandment (a divinely ordained command, especially one of the Ten Commandments)
    Synonym: perintah
    Firman Allah ― God's commandment

Derived terms

Further reading

Javanese

Romanization

firman

  1. Romanization of ꦥ꦳ꦶꦂꦩꦤ꧀

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish فرمان (ferman), from Persian فرمان (farmân, “command, order, decree”).

Noun

firman n (plural firmane)

  1. firman

Declension

singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative firman firmanul firmane firmanele
genitive-dative firman firmanului firmane firmanelor
vocative firmanule firmanelor

Spanish

Verb

firman

  1. third-person plural present indicative of firmar

Swedish

Noun

firman

  1. definite singular of firma

Ternate

Etymology

From Malay firman, from Persian فرمان (farmân), from Middle Persian 𐫜𐫡𐫖𐫀𐫗 (frmʾn /⁠framān⁠/), from Old Persian 𐎳𐎼𐎶𐎠𐎴𐎠 (f-r-m-a-n-a /⁠framānā⁠/).

Pronunciation

Noun

firman

  1. a firman
  2. a command, order

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
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