أميركا

Arabic

Alternative forms

• أَمْرِيكَا (ʔamrīkā)
• أَمْرِيكَة (ʔamrīka)

Proper noun

أَمِيرِكَا • (ʔamērikā) f

1. America, United States of America (a country in North America; in full, United States of America)
2. America, the Americas (a supercontinent consisting of North America, Central America and South America regarded as a whole; in full, the Americas)

Further reading

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

South Levantine Arabic

Alternative forms

• أمريكا (ʔamrīka)

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Arabic أَمِيرِكَا (ʔamīrikā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔa.meːr.ka/, [ʔaˈmeːr.ka]

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Proper noun

أميركا • (ʔamērka) f

1. America, the Americas (a supercontinent consisting of North America, Central America and South America regarded as a whole; in full, the Americas)
2. (colloquial) America, United States of America (a country in North America; in full, United States of America)

   Synonym: الولايات المتحدة (il-wilāyāt il-muttaḥide)

Derived terms

• أمرك (ʔamrak, “to Americanize”)
• أميركا الجنوبيّة (ʔamērka l-janūbiyye, “South American”)
• أميركا الشماليّة (ʔamērka š-šamāliyye, “North American”)
• أميركاني (ʔamērkāni, “American”)
• تأمرك (tʔamrak, “to Americanize”)