firman

noun /ˈfɜː.mən/

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

   historical

   his Sublimity's firman, The most imperative of sovereign spells, / Which every body does without who can […]

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry firman (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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