أمير

See also: امیر, آمیز, and أميز

Arabic

From ء م ر (ʔ m r), meaning to command, to order.^[1]^[2]

أَمِير • (ʔamīr) m (plural أُمَرَاء (ʔumarāʔ), feminine أَمِيرَة (ʔamīra))

Declension of noun **أَمِير** (ʔamīr)
singular	basic singular triptote
singular	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	أَمِير ʔamīr	الْأَمِير al-ʔamīr	أَمِير ʔamīr
nominative	أَمِيرٌ ʔamīrun	الْأَمِيرُ al-ʔamīru	أَمِيرُ ʔamīru
accusative	أَمِيرًا ʔamīran	الْأَمِيرَ al-ʔamīra	أَمِيرَ ʔamīra
genitive	أَمِيرٍ ʔamīrin	الْأَمِيرِ al-ʔamīri	أَمِيرِ ʔamīri
dual	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	أَمِيرَيْن ʔamīrayn	الْأَمِيرَيْن al-ʔamīrayn	أَمِيرَيْ ʔamīray
nominative	أَمِيرَانِ ʔamīrāni	الْأَمِيرَانِ al-ʔamīrāni	أَمِيرَا ʔamīrā
accusative	أَمِيرَيْنِ ʔamīrayni	الْأَمِيرَيْنِ al-ʔamīrayni	أَمِيرَيْ ʔamīray
genitive	أَمِيرَيْنِ ʔamīrayni	الْأَمِيرَيْنِ al-ʔamīrayni	أَمِيرَيْ ʔamīray
plural	basic broken plural diptote
plural	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	أُمَرَاء ʔumarāʔ	الْأُمَرَاء al-ʔumarāʔ	أُمَرَاء ʔumarāʔ
nominative	أُمَرَاءُ ʔumarāʔu	الْأُمَرَاءُ al-ʔumarāʔu	أُمَرَاءُ ʔumarāʔu
accusative	أُمَرَاءَ ʔumarāʔa	الْأُمَرَاءَ al-ʔumarāʔa	أُمَرَاءَ ʔumarāʔa
genitive	أُمَرَاءَ ʔumarāʔa	الْأُمَرَاءِ al-ʔumarāʔi	أُمَرَاءِ ʔumarāʔi

→ Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܡܝܼܪܵܐ (amīrā)
→ Azerbaijani: əmir
→ Bashkir: әмир (əmir)
→ Bengali: আমীর (amīr)
→ Byzantine Greek: ἀμιράς (amirás)
- → Medieval Latin: amiratus
  - → Old Spanish: amirate
    - Spanish: almirante
      - → Tagalog: almirante
  - → Old Galician-Portuguese: almirante
    - Galician: almirante
    - Portuguese: almirante
→ Chagatai: امیر
- Uyghur: ئەمىر (emir)
- Uzbek: amir
→ Classical Syriac: ܐܡܝܪܐ (ʾămīrāʾ) (see there for further descendants)
→ Chinese: 埃米爾 / 埃米尔 (āimǐ'ěr) (transliteration)
→ English: amir
→ Georgian: ამირი (amiri)
→ Japanese: アミール (amīru)
→ Kazakh: әмір (ämır)
→ Korean: 아미르 (amireu)
→ Maranao: amir
→ Medieval Latin: amiralis
- Italian: ammiraglio
- Old French: amiral (see there for further descendants)
→ Medieval Latin: admiralis
- Old French: admiral (see there for further descendants)
→ Ottoman Turkish: امیر (emir) (see there for further descendants)
→ Ottoman Turkish: آمر (amir)
- Turkish: amir
→ Persian: امیر (amir) (see there for further descendants)
→ Punjabi:
Gurmukhi script: ਅਮੀਰ (amīr)

Shahmukhi script: امیر (amīr)
→ Swahili: amiri
→ Tatar: әмир (ämir)

^ “أمر” in Edward William Lane (1863), Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 95-99, meaning to command, to order, to state or tell, to counsel or advise, to enjoin or bid, to mandate or exhort, to demand, to delegate responsibility; originates in hunting, the leader of the hunting party who would give orders and commands, guide people into position.
^ Wehr, Hans (1979) “ءمر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN