firman

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɜː.mən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɜɹ.mən/, [ˈfɝ.mən]

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.

• pharmaund, phirmaund

• Firman in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

firman

1. accusative singular of firma

firman

1. genitive singular of firma

• farmin

firman m (plural firmans)

1. firman

• “firman”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

firman

1. third-person plural present indicative of firmar

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

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

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

• “firman” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

firman

1. romanization of ꦥ꦳ꦶꦂꦩꦤ꧀

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

firman n (plural firmane)

1. firman

firman

1. third-person plural present indicative of firmar

firman

1. definite singular of firma

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

• IPA^(key): [fiɾ.ˈman]

firman

1. a
2. a command, order

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