أمير

See also: امیر, آمیز, and أميز

Arabic

Etymology

From ء م ر (ʔ-m-r), meaning to command, to order.^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʔa.miːr/

Noun

أَمِير • (ʔamīr) m (plural أُمَرَاء (ʔumarāʔ), feminine أَمِيرَة (ʔamīra))

Declension

Declension of noun أَمِير (ʔamīr)

Singular	basic singular triptote
Singular	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	أَمِير ʔamīr	الْأَمِير al-ʔamīr	أَمِير ʔamīr
Nominative	أَمِيرٌ ʔamīrun	الْأَمِيرُ al-ʔamīru	أَمِيرُ ʔamīru
Accusative	أَمِيرًا ʔamīran	الْأَمِيرَ al-ʔamīra	أَمِيرَ ʔamīra
Genitive	أَمِيرٍ ʔamīrin	الْأَمِيرِ al-ʔamīri	أَمِيرِ ʔamīri
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	أَمِيرَيْن ʔamīrayn	الْأَمِيرَيْن al-ʔamīrayn	أَمِيرَيْ ʔamīray
Nominative	أَمِيرَانِ ʔamīrāni	الْأَمِيرَانِ al-ʔamīrāni	أَمِيرَا ʔamīrā
Accusative	أَمِيرَيْنِ ʔamīrayni	الْأَمِيرَيْنِ al-ʔamīrayni	أَمِيرَيْ ʔamīray
Genitive	أَمِيرَيْنِ ʔamīrayni	الْأَمِيرَيْنِ al-ʔamīrayni	أَمِيرَيْ ʔamīray
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
Plural	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	أُمَرَاء ʔumarāʔ	الْأُمَرَاء al-ʔumarāʔ	أُمَرَاء ʔumarāʔ
Nominative	أُمَرَاءُ ʔumarāʔu	الْأُمَرَاءُ al-ʔumarāʔu	أُمَرَاءُ ʔumarāʔu
Accusative	أُمَرَاءَ ʔumarāʔa	الْأُمَرَاءَ al-ʔumarāʔa	أُمَرَاءَ ʔumarāʔa
Genitive	أُمَرَاءَ ʔumarāʔa	الْأُمَرَاءِ al-ʔumarāʔi	أُمَرَاءِ ʔumarāʔi

Derived terms

أمير البحر
أَمِير الْمُؤْمِنِين (ʔamīr al-muʔminīn)
إِمَارَة (ʔimāra)

Descendants

→ Azerbaijani: əmir
→ Bashkir: әмир (əmir)
→ Bengali: আমীর (amīr)
→ Byzantine Greek: ἀμιράς (amirás)
- → Medieval Latin: amiratus
  - → Old Spanish: amirate
    - Spanish: almirante
      - Tagalog: almirante
  - Old Galician-Portuguese: almirante
    - Galician: almirante
    - Portuguese: almirante
→ Chagatai: امیر
- Uyghur: ئەمىر (emir)
- Uzbek: amir
Classical Syriac: ܐܡܝܪܐ
- Old Armenian: ամիրայ (amiray)
  - Armenian: ամիրա (amira)
    - English: amira
  - Georgian: ამირა (amira)
→ Chinese: → 埃米爾／埃米尔 (āimǐ'ěr) (transliteration)
→ English: amir
→ Georgian: ამირი (amiri)
→ Hindustani:
Hindi: अमीर (amīr)

Urdu: امیر (amīr)
→ Japanese: アミール (amīru)
→ Kazakh: әмір (ämır)
→ Korean: 아미르 (amireu)
→ Maranao: amir
→ Medieval Latin: amiralis
- Italian: ammiraglio
  - Dutch: admiraal
- Old French: amiral, admirail, admiraill, admiral, admirall, admiralle, amirail, amiraill, amirant, amiraunt, amirau, amiraud, amiraude, ammiraille, amerail, ameraille, ameral, amerale, amerall, ameralle, amerayll, amerelle
  - French: amiral
    - → Ottoman Turkish: آمیرال
      - Turkish: amiral
    - → Romanian: amiral
    - → Swedish: amiral
      - → Finnish: amiraali
  - → Irish: aimiréal
  - → Middle English: amiral
    - English: amiral
  - Middle Dutch: ammirael
    - Dutch: admiraal
      - Afrikaans: admiraal
      - → Indonesian: admiral
      - → Papiamentu: atmiral
      - → West Frisian: admiraal
→ Medieval Latin: admiralis
- Old French: admiral
  - → Middle English: admiral
    - English: admiral, Admiral, Adm., Adm, adml., ADM
      - → Cebuano: admiral
      - → German: Admiral
        → Czech: admirál
        Hungarian: admirális
        → Polish: admirał
        → Slovene: admirȃl
        → Ukrainian: адміра́л (admirál)
      - Swahili: admirali
      - → Tagalog: ádmirál
  - Middle English: admirad
  - → Norwegian Bokmål: admiral
    - Northern Sami: admirála
  - → Norwegian Nynorsk: admiral
  - → Russian: адмирал (admiral), адмира́лъ (admirál) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
    - → Bulgarian: адмира́л (admirál)
    - → Kazakh:
      Arabic script: ادميرال
      Cyrillic script: адмирал (admiral)
    - → Mongolian:
      Mongolian script: ᠠᠳ᠋ᠮᠢᠷᠠᠯ (admiral)
      Cyrillic script: адмирал (admiral)
→ Ottoman Turkish: امیر (emir)
- Turkish: emîr
- → Belarusian: эмір (emir)
- → Czech: emir
- → Danish: emir
- → Dutch: emir
- → English: emir
- → Finnish: emiiri
- → French: émir
- → German: Emir
- → Greek: εμίρης (emíris)
- → Hungarian: emír
- → Italian: emiro
- → Latvian: emīrs
- → Lithuanian: emyras
- → Norwegian Bokmål: emir
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: emir
- → Polish: emir
- → Portuguese: emir
- → Romanian: emir
- → Russian: эмир (emir)
- → Spanish: emir, amir (rare, directly from Arabic)
  - → Tagalog: emir
- → Swedish: emir
- → Ukrainian: емір (emir)
→ Ottoman Turkish: آمر (amir)
- Turkish: amir
→ Persian: امیر (amir)
→ Punjabi:
Gurmukhi script: ਅਮੀਰ (amīr)

Shahmukhi script: امیر (amīr)
→ Swahili: amiri
→ Tatar: әмир (ämir)

References

^ “أمر” in Edward William Lane (1863), Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 95-99, meaning to command, to order, to state or tell, to counsel or advise, to enjoin or bid, to mandate or exhort, to demand, to delegate responsibility; originates in hunting, the leader of the hunting party who would give orders and commands, guide people into position.
^ Wehr, Hans (1979) “ءمر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

[1] “أمر” in Edward William Lane (1863), Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 95-99, meaning to command, to order, to state or tell, to counsel or advise, to enjoin or bid, to mandate or exhort, to demand, to delegate responsibility; originates in hunting, the leader of the hunting party who would give orders and commands, guide people into position.

[2] Wehr, Hans (1979) “ءمر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

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