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) (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.