admiral

See also: Admiral and admirál

English

Etymology

From Old French amirail, amiral (modern French amiral), from Arabic أَمِير الْبَحْر‏ (ʾamīr al-baḥr, “commander of the fleet”). Later associated with admirable. Akin to amir, Amir and emir.

First recorded in English September, 1300, to refer to Gerard Allard of Winchelsea, referred to as “Admiral of the Fleet of the Cinque Ports”.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈæd.mə.ɹəl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæd.mɚl̩/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

admiral (plural admirals)

1. A naval officer of the highest rank; the commander of a country's naval forces.
2. A naval officer of high rank, immediately below Admiral of the Fleet; the commander of a fleet or squadron.
3. A flag officer in the United States Navy or Coast Guard of a grade superior to vice admiral and junior to admiral of the fleet (when that grade is used). An admiral is equal in grade or rank to a four star general.
4. The ship which carries the admiral, the flagship; also, the most considerable ship of a fleet.
5. (obsolete) A prince or Saracen leader under the Sultan.
6. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of Europe and America, especially a red admiral or white admiral.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• admiralcy
• admiralship
• Lord High Admiral
• Admiral of the Fleet
• admiralty

• vice admiral
• rear admiral

Translations

naval officer of the highest rank

• Albanian: admiral (sq)
• Armenian: ծովակալ (hy) (covakal)
• Bulgarian: адмирал (bg) (admiral)
• Catalan: almirall
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海軍上將, 海军上将 (hǎijūn shàngjiàng)

• Czech: admirál (cs) m
• Danish: admiral c
• Dutch: admiraal (nl) m
• Esperanto: admiralo, ŝiparestro
• Estonian: admiral (et)
• Faroese: admirálur m
• Finnish: amiraali (fi), suuramiraali (fi), laivastoamiraali (fi)
• French: amiral (fr) m
• German: Admiral (de) m
• Greek: ναύαρχος (el) m (návarchos)
• Hungarian: tengernagy (hu), admirális (hu)
• Icelandic: aðmíráll m
• Irish: aimiréal m
• Italian: ammiraglio (it)
• Japanese: 海軍大将 (かいぐんたいしょう, kaigun taishō), 提督 (ja) (ていとく, teitoku)

• Korean: 제독 (ko) (jedok), 提督 (ko)
• Latvian: admirālis m
• Lithuanian: admirolas (lt) m
• Malay: laksamana
• Manx: ard-marragh m
• Maori: ātamira
• Norman: amitha m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: admiral (no) m

  Nynorsk: admiral m

• Persian: دریابد‏‎ (daryâbod)
• Polish: admirał (pl) m
• Portuguese: almirante (pt) m
• Romanian: amiral (ro) m
• Russian: адмира́л (ru) m (admirál)
• Sicilian: ammiragghiu m
• Spanish: almirante (es) m
• Tagalog: laksamana
• Turkish: oramiral (tr)
• Uyghur: ئادمىرال‏‎ (admiral)

a naval officer of high rank, immediately below Admiral of the Fleet

• Albanian: admiral (sq)
• Armenian: ծովակալ (hy) (covakal)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海軍上將, 海军上将 (hǎijūn shàngjiàng)

• Czech: admirál (cs) m
• Danish: admiral c
• Finnish: amiraali (fi)
• French: amiral (fr) m
• Greek: ναύαρχος (el) (návarchos)
• Hungarian: tengernagy (hu), admirális (hu)

• Irish: aimiréal m
• Japanese: 海軍大将 (kaigun taishō)
• Manx: ard-marragh m
• Persian: دریاسالار‏‎ (fa) (daryâsâlâr)
• Portuguese: almirante (pt) m
• Russian: адмира́л (ru) m (admirál)
• Spanish: almirante (es) m
• Turkish: amiral (tr)
• Urdu: امیر البحر‏‎ m

the ship which carries the admiral, the flagship

• Bulgarian: флагман (flagman)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: flagskib n
• Finnish: lippulaiva (fi)

• Greek: ναυαρχίδα (el) f (navarchída)
• Latvian: admirāļa kuģis m
• Russian: фла́гман (ru) m (flágman)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

prince or Saracen leader under the Sultan

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: amiraali (fi)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

butterfly

• Bulgarian: адмирал (bg) (admiral)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: babočka admirál f, m
• Danish: admiral c

• Finnish: amiraali (fi)
• Irish: aimiréal m
• Portuguese: almirante (pt) m
• Russian: адмира́л (ru) m (admirál)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} admirolas m (1, 3); ^{(please verify)} flagmanas m (2)

Anagrams

• amildar

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch admiraal

Noun

admiral m

1. admiral

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Arabic أَمِير الْبَحْر‏ (ʾamīr al-baḥr, “commander of the fleet”), via French amiral

Noun

admiral m (definite singular admiralen, indefinite plural admiraler, definite plural admiralene)

(military, nautical) an admiral

References

• “admiral” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Arabic أَمِير الْبَحْر‏ (ʾamīr al-baḥr, “commander of the fleet”), via French amiral

Noun

admiral m (definite singular admiralen, indefinite plural admiralar, definite plural admiralane)

(military, nautical) an admiral

References

• “admiral” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Arabic اَمِير‏ (amīr, “commander”) + -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /admǐraːl/
• Hyphenation: ad‧mi‧ral

Noun

admìrāl m (Cyrillic spelling адмѝра̄л)

1. admiral

Declension

Declension of admiral

	singular	plural
nominative	admìrāl	admirali
genitive	admirála	admirala
dative	admiralu	admiralima
accusative	admirala	admirale
vocative	admirale	admirali
locative	admiralu	admiralima
instrumental	admiralom	admiralima

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Tagalog

Noun

admiral

1. (military) admiral

References

• The Tagalog Pinoy Dictionary