Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hatti-sherif

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.57 in modern English

Syllables: hat-ti-sh-erif
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

In the Ottoman Empire, an edict countersigned by the sultan.

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Arabic

Word Breakdown

Root: خطِ شریف, خَطّ, خ ط ط

Inflected Forms

hatti-sherifs (plural)

Questions

What does hatti-sherif mean?: In the Ottoman Empire, an edict countersigned by the sultan.
Where does hatti-sherif come from?: It is traced to Arabic.

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