name
Meaning 1
A surname transferred from the given name.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
firman
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfɜː.mən/
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General-American: /ˈfɜɹ.mən/
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General-American: [ˈfɝ.mən]
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CMU ARPABET: F ER1 M AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
a royal decree issued by a sovereign in certain historical Islamic states, especially by the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: hatti-sherif
History
Etymology
Variant of Firmin.
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish فرمان (fermân), from Classical Persian فرمان (farmān, “command, order, decree”).
Across languages
Translations
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bengali: ফরমান (phoroman) — Translations
- Gujarati: ફરમાન (pharmān) — Translations
- Hindi: फ़रमान (farmān) — Translations
- Hindi: फरमान (pharmān) — Translations
- Kannada: ಫರ್ಮಾನು (pharmānu) — Translations
- Macedonian: фе́рман (férman) — Translations
- Marathi: फर्मान (pharmān) — Translations
- Punjabi: ਫ਼ਰਮਾਨ (farmān) — Translations
- Punjabi: فَرمان (farmān) — Translations
- Turkish: ferman — Translations
- Ottoman Turkish: فرمان (ferman) — Translations
- Urdu: فرمان (farmān) — Translations