emirate

See also: Emirate

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English emir

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus, -tūs

Latin -ātusder.

English -ate

English emirate

From emir + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, the concrete charge of it).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛməɹət/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

emirate (plural emirates)

1. A country ruled by an emir.
2. The office of an emir.

Derived terms

• Arab Emirates
• Caucasus Emirate
• Emirate of Bari
• Emirate of Sicily
• Emirates
• Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
• United Arab Emirates

Translations

country ruled by an emir

• Albanian: emirat m
• Arabic: إِمَارَة f (ʔimāra) (plural: إِمَارَات f pl (ʔimārāt))
• Armenian: էմիրություն (ēmirutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: əmirlik
• Bashkir: әмирлек (əmirlek)
• Belarusian: эміра́т m (emirát)
• Bengali: আমিরাত (bn) (amirat)
• Bulgarian: еми́рство m (emírstvo), емира́т m (emirát)
• Catalan: emirat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 酋長國 / 酋长国 (zh) (qiúzhǎngguó), 君主國 / 君主国 (zh) (jūnzhǔguó)

• Crimean Tatar: emirlik
• Czech: emirát m
• Danish: emirat n
• Dutch: emiraat (nl) n
• Esperanto: emirlando
• Estonian: emiraat
• Finnish: emiraatti (fi)
• French: émirat (fr) m
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: emiraat

• Galician: emirato m
• Georgian: ემირატი (emiraṭi)
• German: Emirat (de) n
• Greek: εμιράτο (el) n (emiráto)
• Hebrew: אֶמִירוּת f (emirát)
• Hindi: अमीरात m (amīrāt), इमारत (hi) f (imārat)
• Hungarian: emírség (hu), emirátus (hu)
• Icelandic: furstadæmi n
• Ido: emirio (io)
• Indonesian: keamiran, emirat (id)
• Irish: éimíríocht f
• Italian: emirato (it) m
• Japanese: 首長国 (ja) (しゅちょうこく, shuchōkoku)
• Kazakh: әмірлік (ämırlık)
• Khmer: អេមីរ៉ាត (ʼeemiiraat)
• Korean: 에미리트 (emiriteu), 수장국(首長國) (sujangguk), 토후국(土侯國) (ko) (tohuguk)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: mîrnişîn (ku)

• Kyrgyz: эмирлик (emirlik), эмират (emirat)
• Lao: ເອມິເລດ (ʼē mi lēt)
• Latvian: emirāts m
• Lithuanian: emyratas m
• Macedonian: емира́т m (emirát)
• Malay: emiriah
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: emirat n

  Nynorsk: emirat n

• Pashto: امارت (ps) m (emārát)
• Persian:

  Dari: اِمَارَت (fa) (imārat)

  Iranian Persian: اِمارَت (fa) (emârat)

• Polish: emirat (pl) m
• Portuguese: emirado (pt) m
• Romanian: emirat (ro) n
• Russian: эмира́т (ru) m (emirát)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: емѝра̄т m

  Latin: emìrāt (sh) m

• Slovak: emirát (sk) m
• Slovene: emirat (sl) m
• Spanish: emirato m
• Swedish: emirat (sv) n
• Tagalog: emirato
• Tajik: иморат (imorat)
• Tatar: әмирлек (ämirlek)
• Thai: เอมิเรต (ee-mí-rèet)
• Turkish: emirlik (tr)
• Turkmen: emirlik
• Ukrainian: еміра́т m (emirát)
• Urdu: اِمارَت f (imārat)
• Uyghur: ئەمىرلىك (emirlik)
• Uzbek: amirlik (uz)
• Vietnamese: tiểu vương quốc
• Volapük: lemirän
• Welsh: emirad m
• Yiddish: עמיראַט (emirat)

Further reading

• emirate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• emerita, meatier