firman

See also: Firman

English

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.

Alternative forms

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]
  • Hyphenation: fir‧man

Noun

firman (first-person possessive firmanku, second-person possessive firmanmu, third-person possessive firmannya)

  1. word of God
    Synonym: sabda
  2. (Christianity) commandment.
    Synonym: perintah
    Firman AllahGod's commandment

Derived terms

  • berfirman
  • memfirmankan

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

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

  • IPA(key): [fiɾ.ˈman]

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
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.