Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An irrevocable order or decree of the Sultan of Turkey, written with special formality and bearing his personal sign-manual or flourish. See extract under firman. Also called
hatti-humayun .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A irrevocable Turkish decree countersigned by the sultan.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
irrevocable Turkish decree countersigned by thesultan .
Etymologies
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Turkish, from Arabic, meaning "noble writing".
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Examples
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November 1830 the _hatti-sherif_ of the Sultan, acknowledging Milo [) s] as hereditary prince of Serbia, was publicly read in Belgrade.
The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey Nevill Forbes 1906
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