amiral

From Old French amirail, amiral, from Arabic أَمِير اَلْبَحْر‎ (ʔamīr al-baḥr, “commander of the fleet”).

• IPA^(key): /a.mi.ʁal/

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amiral (feminine amirale, masculine plural amiraux, feminine plural amirales)

1. (relational) of an admiral

amiral m (plural amiraux, feminine amirale)

1. admiral (military officer)
   • 1759, Voltaire, Candide‎, page 160:

     Mais dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de tems en tems un Amiral pour encourager les autres.

     But in this country it's good from time to time to kill an admiral to encourage the others.

• contre-amiral
• vice-amiral
• vice-amiral d'escadre

• amiraulté

• → Norwegian Bokmål: admiral

• “amiral”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• amirall, amirail, amyral, amerel, admiral, admirail, admirall, admyral, admyrall

From Old French amiral.

• IPA^(key): /amiˈraːl/, /ˈamiral/

amiral (plural amirales)

1. Prince, emir or other Muslim commander or ruler.
2. Admiral

• English: admiral

• “amirāl, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• admirail, admiraill, admiral, admirall, admiralle, amirail, amiraill, amirant, amiraunt, amirau, amiraud, amiraude, ammiraille, amerail, ameraille, ameral, amerale, amerall, ameralle, amerayll, amerelle

Borrowed from Arabic أَمِير اَلْبَحْر‎ (ʔamīr al-baḥr, “commander of the fleet”).

amiral m (oblique plural amiraus or amirax or amirals, nominative singular amiraus or amirax or amirals, nominative plural amiral)

1. admiral (military officer)
   1. (Anglo-Norman, law) naval officer with jurisdiction over maritime legal proceedings
2. (Anglo-Norman) emir; commander

• French: amiral
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: admiral
• → Middle English: amiral
  • English: admiral

• admiral in Anglo-Norman Dictionary, Aberystwyth University, 2022

From French amiral.

amiral m (plural amirali)

1. admiral

amiral c

1. an admiral[1]

• → Finnish: amiraali

From Ottoman Turkish آمیرال‎, from French amiral, from Arabic أَمِير اَلْبَحْر‎ (ʔamīr al-baḥr, “commander of the fleet”).

• IPA^(key): /a.mi.ɾal/

amiral (definite accusative amirali, plural amiraller)

1. (military) admiral

• amirallik

• amiral in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu