امارت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَارَة (ʔimāra).

Noun

امارت (emâret) (plural امارات)

  1. an acting as emir, chief or leader
  2. chieftainship; leadership
  3. the territory of a chief; a principality

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Turkish: emaret

Further reading

Pashto

Etymology

From Arabic إِمَارَة (ʔimāra).

Noun

امارت (imārát) m

  1. emirate, principality

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِمَارَة (ʔimāra).

Pronunciation

  • (Tajik) IPA(key): /imɔɾat/

Noun

Dari امارت
Iranian Persian
Tajik иморат (imorat)

امارت (emârat) (plural امارات (emârât))

  1. emirate

Descendants

Further reading

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian امارت, from Arabic إِمَارَة (ʔimāra).

Pronunciation

Noun

اِمارَت (imārat) f (Hindi spelling इमारत)

  1. possession of command; the office, and authority of a commander, governor, &c. (amīr)
  2. district under the authority of a governor
  3. a government
  4. command, authority, power, dominion, rule, sovereignty
  5. dignity, grandeur, state, magnificence, pomp, display
  6. increase, abundance, prosperity

Further reading

  • امارت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Platts, John T. (1884), امارت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
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