Dictionaries › English

firman

Pronunciation: /ˈfɜː.mən/

The English word “firman” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. a royal decree issued by a sovereign in certain historical Islamic states, especially by the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish فرمان (fermân), from Classical Persian فرمان (farmān, “command, order, decree”).

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “firman” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.