أمير

See also: امیر‎, آمیز‎, and أميز‎

Arabic

Etymology

From ء م ر‎ (ʔ-m-r), meaning to command, to order, to instruct, to state or tell, to enjoin or bid, to mandate or exhort, to demand, to delegate responsibility.[1][2]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʔa.miːr/

Noun

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

Declension

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

Derived terms

إِمَارَة‎ (ʔimāra)
أَمِير الْمُؤْمِنِين‎ (ʔamīr al-muʔminīn)

Descendants

→ Azerbaijani: əmir
→ Bashkir: әмир (ämir)
→ Bengali: আমীর (amīr)
→ Chagatai: امیر‎
- Uyghur: ئەمىر‎ (emir)
- Uzbek: amir
→ English: amir
→ Georgian: ამირი (amiri)
→ Hindustani:
- Hindi: अमीर (amīr)
- Urdu: امیر‎ (amīr)
→ Japanese: アミール (amīru)
→ Kazakh: әмір (ämır)
→ Korean: 아미르 (amireu)
→ Maranao: amir
→ Ottoman Turkish: امیر‎ (emir)
- Turkish: emir
- → Belarusian: эмір (emir)
- → Czech: emir
- → Danish: emir
- → Dutch: emir
- → English: emir
- → Finnish: emiiri
- → French: émir
- → German: Emir
- → Greek: εμίρης (emíris)
- → Hungarian: emír
- → Italian: emiro
- → Latvian: emīrs
- → Lithuanian: emyras
- → Norwegian Bokmål: emir
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: emir
- → Polish: emir
- → Portuguese: emir
- → Romanian: emir
- → Russian: эмир (emir)
- → Spanish: emir
  - → Tagalog: emir
- → Swedish: emir
- → Ukrainian: емір (emir)
→ Persian: امیر‎ (amir)
→ Punjabi: اَمِیر‎ (amīr)
→ Swahili: amiri
→ Tatar: әмир (ämir)

References

“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

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[1] “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.

[2] Wehr, Hans (1979), “ءمر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN