फ़रमान

See also: फर्मान and फ़रमाना

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian فرمان (farmān). Doublet of प्रमाण (pramāṇ). First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi فَرْمان (frman). Compare Punjabi ਫ਼ਰਮਾਨ (farmān) / فَرمان (farmān), Gujarati ફરમાન (pharmān), Bengali ফরমান (phoroman), Marathi फर्मान (pharmān), Kannada ಫರ್ಮಾನು (pharmānu).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /fəɾ.mɑːn/, [fɐɾ.mä̃ːn], /pʰəɾ.mɑːn/, [pʰɐɾ.mä̃ːn]

Noun

फ़रमान • (farmān) m (Urdu spelling فرمان)

1. royal decree, order

   Synonym: आदेश (ādeś)

2. (historical) a firman; decree directly from the Mughal emperor

Declension

Declension of फ़रमान (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	फ़रमान farmān	फ़रमान farmān
oblique	फ़रमान farmān	फ़रमानों farmānõ
vocative	फ़रमान farmān	फ़रमानो farmāno

Related terms

• फ़रमाइश (farmāiś)
• फ़रमाना (farmānā)

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “फ़रमान”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 677
• “फ़रमान”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.