امیر

See also: آمیز, أمير, and أميز

Azerbaijani

Noun

امیر

1. Arabic spelling of əmir

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr).

Noun

امیر • (emir)

1. commander; king; prince; chief; ruler; leader

Descendants

• Turkish: emir
• → 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
  • → 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.ˈmiːɾ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.míːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.míːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔä.míːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔä.míɾ]

• (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

Dari	امیر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	амир

امیر • (amir) (plural امیران (amirân) or امرا (omarâ) or امیرها (amir-hâ))

1. commander
2. prince
3. emir, amir
4. chief

Descendants

• → Gujarati: અમીર (amīr)

Proper noun

Dari	امیر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	Амир

امیر • (amir)

1. 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)

1. rich
2. wealthy

Noun

اَمِیر • (amīr) m (Hindi spelling अमीर)

1. nobleman
2. emir/amir