امیر
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Azerbaijani
Noun
امیر
- Arabic spelling of əmir
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr).
Noun
امیر • (emir)
Descendants
- Turkish: emîr
- → Belarusian: эмір (emir)
- → Czech: emir
- → Danish: emir
- → Dutch: emir
- → Finnish: emiiri
- → German: Emir
- → Greek: εμίρης (emíris)
- → Hungarian: emír
- → Italian: emiro
- → Latvian: emīrs
- → Lithuanian: emyras
- → Middle French: emir
- → Norwegian Bokmål: emir
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: emir
- → Polish: emir
- → Portuguese: emir
- → Romanian: emir
- → Russian: эмир (emir)
- → Spanish: emir
- → Tagalog: emir
- → Swedish: emir
- → Ukrainian: емір (emir)
Further reading
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “امیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 204
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key):
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key):
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key):
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | amīr |
| Dari reading? | amīr |
| Iranian reading? | amir |
| Tajik reading? | amir |
Noun
| Dari | امیر |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | амир |
امیر • (amir) (plural امیران (amirân) or امرا (omarâ) or امیرها (amir-hâ))
Descendants
Proper noun
| Dari | امیر |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | Амир |
امیر • (amir)
- a male given name, Amir, from Arabic
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian امیر (amīr), from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ə.miːɾ/
Adjective
اَمِیر • (amīr) (Hindi spelling अमीर)