different between firefighter vs firman

English

Etymology

fire +? fighter. Created as a gender-neutral term for fireman and firewoman.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?fa??(?)?fa?.t?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?fa?.??fa?.t?/

Noun

firefighter (plural firefighters)

1. A person who puts out fires.

Synonyms

• smoke eater

Hyponyms

• fireman
• firewoman
• hotshot
• smokejumper
• wildfire-fighter

Translations

See also

• fireperson

English

Etymology

From Turkish ????? (ferman), from Persian ?????? (farmân, “command, order, decree”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f??m?n/

Noun

firman (plural firmans)

1. A royal decree issued by a sovereign in certain historical Islamic states, especially by the Sultan of Turkey.

   Hyponym: hatti-sherif

   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, IV:

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

   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 134:

     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.

   • 2005: International Law And The Great War, Coleman Phillipson

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

Translations

References

Further reading

• Firman in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Esperanto

Adjective

firman

1. accusative singular of firma

Finnish

Noun

firman

1. Genitive singular form of firma.

Anagrams

• farmin

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay firman, from Classical Malay firman (“permission”), from Persian ?????? (farmân, “command, order, decree”), from Middle Persian ????????????????????? (frm?n /fram?n/, “order, command”), from Old Persian ???????????????????????? (f-r-m-a-n-a /fram?n?/, “command”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?r.man]
• Hyphenation: fir?man

Noun

firman (first-person possessive firmanku, second-person possessive firmanmu, third-person possessive firmannya)

1. commandment.

   Synonym: sabda

Derived terms

Further reading

• “firman” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Romanian

Etymology

From Turkish ????? (ferman), from Persian ?????? (farmân, “command, order, decree”).

Noun

firman n (plural firmane)

1. firman

Declension

Spanish

Verb

firman

1. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of firmar.
2. (used formally in Spain) Second-person plural present indicative form of firmar.

Swedish

Noun

firman

1. definite singular of firma