امیر
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[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 204
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /ʔa.ˈmiːr/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ʔä.míːɾ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ʔæ.míːɹ]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ʔä.míɾ]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | amīr |
| Dari reading? | amīr |
| Iranian reading? | amir |
| Tajik reading? | amir |
Noun
امیر • (amīr / amir) (plural امیران (amīrān / amirân), or امرا (umarā / omarâ), or امیرها (amīr-hā / amir-hâ), Tajik spelling амир)
Descendants
Proper noun
امیر • (amīr / amir) (Tajik spelling Амир)
- 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)
Noun
اَمِیر • (amīr) m (Hindi spelling अमीर)