hatti-sherif

English

Alternative forms

hatti-sheriff

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish خطِ شریف (hatt-ı şerif, “noble writing”), from Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ, “writing”) + شَرِيف (šarīf, “noble, sharif”).

Noun

hatti-sherif (plural hatti-sherifs)

1. (historical) In the Ottoman Empire, An edict countersigned by the sultan.

   Hypernym: firman

References

• Introduction to the Modern Economic History of the Middle East, 1980
• “hatti-sherif”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.