إمارة

Arabic

Etymology

Verbal noun of أَمَرَ (ʔamara, “to become an emir”) and أَمُرَ (ʔamura, “(same)”), from the root ء م ر (ʔ-m-r); compare آمِر (ʔāmir, “emir”), أَمَرَ (ʔamara, “to command”).

Noun

إِمَارَة • (ʔimāra) f (plural إِمَارَات (ʔimārāt))

1. verbal noun of أَمَرَ (ʔamara) (form I)
2. verbal noun of أَمُرَ (ʔamura) (form I)
3. emirate
4. government, power, dominion, authority
5. prefecture
6. position or rank of an emir
7. princely manners

Declension

Derived terms

• الْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَّة الْمُتَّحِدَة (al-ʔimārāt al-ʕarabiyya l-muttaḥida)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: əmarət
• → Ottoman Turkish: امارت (emâret)
• → Pashto: امارت (imārát)
• → Persian: امارت (emârat)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: इमारत (imārat)

    Urdu: اِمارَت (imārat)

  • → Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਇਮਾਰਤ (imārat)

    Shahmukhi script: اِمارَت (imārat)

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “إمارة”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “أمر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Noun

إِمَارَة • (ʔimāra) f (plural إِمَارَات (ʔimārāt) or أَمَائِر (ʔamāʔir))

1. sign, indication, waymark

Declension

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “إمارة”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen