The story
- Arabic · derived fromخَطّ“writing”
- Ottoman Turkish · borrowed fromخطِ شریف“noble writing”
- English todayhatti-sherif
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish خطِ شریف (hatt-ı şerif, “noble writing”), from Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ, “writing”) + شَرِيف (šarīf, “noble, sharif”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.