firman

plural firmans · alternative farman · alternative ferman · alternative pharmaund · alternative phirmaund

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

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

   1821 August 8, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, Cantos III, IV, and V, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto IV, (please specify the stanza number)

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   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.

   1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 134

   It will be noted that the title of Sultan was adopted partly because that of Khedive had been conferred by an Ottoman firman.

   2005, Coleman Phillipson, International Law And The Great War

1. A surname transferred from the given name.