فرمان

Borrowed from Classical Persian فَرْمَان (farmān). Compare Old Punjabi ਫੁਰਮਾਣੁ (phuramāṇu) and Old Gujarati फुरमाण (phuramāṇa).

فَرْمان (frman) m (Middle Hindi)

1. decree, order
   • 1564, حَسَن شَوقِی (hasan śauqī), مِعْراج اُلْعَاشِقِین (mi'rāj ul'āśiqīn), page 82:

     نِظامِیَاں کوں فَرْمان یُوں لیکھ توں
     جِیتے قاعِدے ہِندوی سِیکھ توں

     nz̤amyaṉ kvṉ frman yvṉ lykh tvṉ
     jyte qa'de hndvy sykh tvṉ

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Braj: फरमान (pharmān)
• Bundeli: फरमान (pharmān)
• Hindustani: farmān

  Hindi: फ़रमान

  Urdu: فَرْمان

• Kannauji: फरमान

• “فرمان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

Borrowed from Persian فرمان (farmân, “decree, order”)

فرمان • (ferman)

1. command, order, an action or inaction that must be obeyed, mandated by someone in authority

   Synonyms: امر (emr, emir), بیورق (buyuruk)

2. firman, a decree issued by a sovereign in certain historical Islamic states, like the Ottoman Empire

• Turkish: ferman
• → Albanian: ferman
• → Armenian: ֆէրման (fērman), ֆա̈րմա̈ն (färmän)
• → English: firman
• → Hungarian: fermán
• → Romanian: firman

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ferman”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1565
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “fermân”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 311
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “فرمان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 896
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mandatum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 999
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “فرمان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3507
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “ferman”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فرمان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1379

• فرمون (farmun) (colloquial)

From Middle Persian [script needed] (plmʾn'), 𐫜𐫡𐫖𐫀𐫗 (frmʾn /⁠framān⁠/, “order, command”), from Old Persian 𐎳𐎼𐎶𐎠𐎴𐎠 (framānā, “command”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pramaHnam, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁nom, from *meh₁- (“to measure”).

Cognate with Gurani ھەرمانە (harmāna, “work”) and Iranian loanwords Old Armenian հրաման (hraman, “order, command, injunction”), Aramaic הַרְמָן (hrmnʾ, “order”). Cognate also with Sanskrit प्रमाण (pramāṇa, “authority, proof”).

فرمان • (farmân) (plural فرامین (farâmin), or فرمان‌ها)

1. command, order

   Synonym: دستور (dastur)

   1. (computing) command
2. decree, edict

   Synonym: حکم (hokm)

3. steering wheel (of a car)

• فرمودن (farmudan)

• Walter W[illiam] Skeat (1910) “فرمان”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, new (4th) revised and enlarged edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the Clarendon Press, published 1963, →OCLC.
• Klein, Dr. Ernest, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., 1971.
• Sanskrit Dictionary for Spoken Sanskrit

Borrowed from Classical Persian فَرْمَان (farmān). First attested in c. 1600 as Old Punjabi ਫੁਰਮਾਣੁ (phuramāṇu).

فَرْمان • (farmān) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਫ਼ਰਮਾਨ)

1. order, command, edict
2. (historical) firman (royal decree)

• “ਫਰਮਾਨ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025
• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “فرمان”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Borrowed from Classical Persian فَرْمَان (farmān). First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi فَرْمان (frman).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /fəɾ.mɑːn/
• Rhymes: -ɑːn
• Hyphenation: فَر‧مان

فَرْمان • (farmān) m (Hindi spelling फ़रमान)

1. a command (by any individual)
2. (historical) decree; mandate (especially a royal or an official one)

فَرْمان • (farmān) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling फ़रमान) (poetic)

1. obedient, servant

   مَیں قائِد کا فَرْمان۔ دِل سِینے میں قُرْآن

   ma͠i qāid kā farmān. dil sīne mẽ qur-ān

   I am servant of my leader, with the word of God lying against my heart; chest.

• “فرمان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “فرمان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “فرمان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 453
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “فرمان”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 870
• Platts, John T. (1884) “فرمان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 779
• John Shakespear (1834) “فرمان”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 1258