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Etymology [ edit ]
Borrowed from Old French empereor (Modern French empereur ), from Latin imperator ( “ emperor; commander ” ) , from imperare ( “ to command ” ) . Doublet of imperator .
Pronunciation [ edit ]
emperor (plural emperors )
The male monarch or ruler of an empire .
(medieval political theory ) Specifically, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire ; the world-monarch.
The Investiture Controversy was a conflict between the Emperor and the Pope.
The fourth trump or major arcana card of the tarot deck.
A large, relatively valuable marble in children's games.
2001 , Paul Webley, The economic psychology of everyday life , page 39:
But marbles are not only used to play games: they are also traded. In this market, the value of the different kinds of marbles (oilies, emperors , etc.) is determined by local supply and demand and not by the price of the marbles [ …]
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Translations [ edit ]
ruler of an empire
Albanian: perandor (sq) m
Arabic: قَيْصَر m ( qayṣar ) , إِمْبْرَاطُور m ( ʾimbrāṭūr )
Armenian: կայսր (hy) ( kaysr )
Old Armenian: կայսր ( kaysr ) , կեսար ( kesar )
Aromanian: ampirat m
Asturian: emperador m
Azerbaijani: imperator
Belarusian: імпера́тар m ( impjerátar ) , цар m ( car ) ( tsar )
Bengali: সম্রাট ( śômraṭ )
Breton: impalaer
Bulgarian: импера́тор (bg) m ( imperátor ) , цар (bg) m ( car ) ( tsar )
Burmese: ဧကရာဇ် (my) ( eka.raj )
Catalan: emperador (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 皇帝 ( wong4 dai3 )
Dungan: хуанди ( huandi )
Mandarin: 皇帝 (zh) ( huángdì ) , 帝王 (zh) ( dìwáng ) , 天皇 (zh) ( tiānhuáng ) (of Japan)
Czech: císař (cs) m
Danish: kejser (da) c
Dutch: keizer (nl) m
Esperanto: imperiestro
Estonian: keiser (et) , imperaator
Extremaduran: emperaol m
Finnish: keisari (fi)
French: empereur (fr) m
Friulian: imperadôr m
Galician: emperador m
Georgian: იმპერატორი ( imṗeraṭori )
German: Kaiser (de) m , Imperator m
Greek: αυτοκράτορας (el) m ( aftokrátoras )
Ancient: αὐτοκράτωρ m ( autokrátōr ) , καῖσαρ m ( kaîsar ) , αὐτάναξ m ( autánax )
Hebrew: קֵיסָר (he) m ( keysar )
Hindi: सम्राट m ( samrāṭ )
Hungarian: császár (hu)
Icelandic: keisari (is) m
Ido: cezaro (io)
Indonesian: kaisar (id) , maharaja (id)
Interlingua: imperator
Irish: impire m
Italian: imperatore (it) m
Japanese: 皇帝 (ja) ( こうてい, kōtei ) (Emperor in general), 帝王 (ja) ( ていおう, teiō ) (general term for emperor or monarch), 天皇 (ja) ( てんのう, tennō ) (Emperor of Japan)
Kazakh: император ( ïmperator )
Khmer: អធិរាជ (km) ( atʰiriech ) , ព្រះចៅអធិរាជ ( preah chav atʰiriech ) , រាជាធិរាជ ( riechie tʰiriech )
Korean: 황제 (ko) ( hwangje ) , 천황 (ko) ( cheonhwang ) (of Japan)
Kurdish:
Kurmanji: emperator (ku) , qeyser (ku)
Kyrgyz: император (ky) ( imperator )
Lao: ຈັກກະພັດ ( chak ka phat ) , ຈັກກະວັດ ( chak ka wat ) , ນໍຣິນ ( nǭ rin ) , ນໍລິນ ( nǭ lin ) , ຣາເຊນ ( rā sēn )
Latin: imperātor (la) m
Latvian: imperators m , ķeizars
Lithuanian: imperatorius m , ciesorius m
Luxembourgish: Keeser
Macedonian: импера́тор m ( imperátor ) , цар m ( car ) ( tsar )
Malay: kaisar , maharaja , khakan
Malayalam: സാമ്രാട്ട് ( sāmrāṭṭ )
Mandinka: mansa
Manx: ard-ree m
Maori: emepara , epara
Marathi: सम्राट m ( samrāṭ )
Mongolian: эзэн хаан ( ezen haan )
Norman: empéreu m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: keiser (no) m
Nynorsk: keisar m
Occitan: emperador (oc) m
Old English: heahcasere m
Old Occitan: emperador
Persian: امپراطور (fa) ( emperâtor )
Polish: imperator (pl) m , cesarz (pl) m
Portuguese: imperador (pt) m
Punjabi: ਸਮਰਾਟ ( samrāṭ )
Quechua: qhapaq
Romanian: împărat (ro) m
Romansch: imperatur m , imperataur m , imperatour m , caiser m
Russian: импера́тор (ru) m ( imperátor ) , царь (ru) m ( carʹ ) ( tsar )
Scottish Gaelic: ìmpire
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ца̏р m , импѐра̄тор m , це̏са̄р m
Latin: cȁr (sh) m , impèrātor (sh) m , cȅsār (sh) m
Sicilian: mpiraturi
Slovak: cisár (sk) m , cár (sk) m (of Russia, Bulgaria)
Slovene: cêsar (sl) m , imperátor m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: kejžor m
Upper Sorbian: kejžor m
Spanish: emperador (es) m
Swahili: kaisari
Swedish: kejsare (sv)
Tagalog: baginda , emperador (tl)
Tajik: император ( imperator )
Thai: จักรพรรดิ ( jàk-grà-pát ) , ฮ่องเต้ ( hɔ̂ng-dtêe ) ( emperor of China )
Turkish: imparator (tr) , ilhan (tr)
Turkmen: imperator
Ukrainian: імпера́тор m ( imperátor ) , цар (uk) m ( car ) ( tsar )
Urdu: سمراٹ m ( samrāṭ )
Uzbek: imperator (uz)
Venetian: inperadore , inperador
Vietnamese: hoàng đế (vi) , thiên hoàng (of Japan)
Vilamovian: kazer m
Walloon: impreur (wa) m
Welsh: ymerawdwr
Yiddish: קייסער m ( keyser ) , אימפּעראַטאָר m ( imperator )
fourth trump or major arcana card
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