أمير البحر

Arabic

Noun

أمير البحر • (ʔamīr al-baḥr)

  1. admiral

Usage notes

Frequently but erroneously glossed as the origin of the Medieval Latin titles that gave rise to English admiral and its many cognates.

Synonyms

  • أَدْمِيرَال (ʔadmīrāl)

References

  • David Abulafia (2012), The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean, pp. 321–322.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.