irade
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of irade
1880–85; < Turkish < Arabic irādah will, wish
Example Sentences
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It’s also critical, says Irade Kashgary, co-founder of Ana Care and Education in Fairfax, Va., a Sunday school of sorts for the area’s Uighur community.
From Washington Post
By an irade of the sultan, Hassun was now formally restored, and in 1880 he was adorned with a red hat by Leo XIII.
From Project Gutenberg
A written decree of an Ottoman sultan is also termed an irade, the word being taken from the Arab. irādā, will, volition, order.
From Project Gutenberg
In 1883 Lord Annesley’s yacht, belonging to the Royal Yacht Squadron, was detained at the Dardanelles in consequence of her flying the white ensign of the royal navy which brought her under the category of a man-of-war, and no foreign man-of-war is allowed to pass the Dardanelles without first obtaining an imperial irade.
From Project Gutenberg
On the floor of the Chicago Board of Irade one day last week, a trader idly remarked that he presumed the Government was temporarily out of the market as a buyer of cash wheat.
From Time Magazine Archive
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