emir

See also: Emir, emír, émir, əmir, and Əmir

English

Alternative forms

• amir
• ameer, amier, emeer, admiral (all archaic)

Etymology

From Middle French emir, from Ottoman Turkish امیر (emir), from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander, prince”). Doublet of amir, Amir, admiral, and amira.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛˈmɪə(ɹ)/, /ˈɛmɪə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Noun

emir (plural emirs or (rare) umara)

1. A prince, commander or other leader or ruler in an Islamic nation.
2. A descendant of the prophet Muhammad.

Derived terms

• emirate
• emirship

Translations

Islamic prince or leader

• Albanian: emir m
• Arabic: أَمِير (ar) m (ʔamīr)
• Aramaic:

  Hebrew script: 𐡀‬𐡌𐡉𐡓 (ʾ‬myr)

  Syriac: ܐܡܝܪ, ܐܡܝܖ (archaic)

• Armenian: ամիրա (hy) (amira), ամիր (amir), էմիր (hy) (ēmir)

  Old Armenian: ամիրայ (amiray)

• Azerbaijani: əmir
• Bashkir: әмир (əmir)
• Belarusian: эмі́р m (emír)
• Bengali: আমীর (bn) (amir)
• Bulgarian: еми́р m (emír)
• Burmese: စော်ဘွား (my) (caubhwa:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 埃米爾 / 埃米尔 (zh) (āimǐ'ěr), 酋長 / 酋长 (zh) (qiúzhǎng) (headman)

• Coptic: ⲁⲙⲓⲣⲁ (amira)
• Czech: emír m
• Danish: emir c
• Dutch: emir (nl) m
• Esperanto: emiro
• Faroese: emirur m
• Finnish: emiiri (fi)
• French: émir (fr) m
• Georgian: ამირი (amiri), ამირა (amira)
• German: Emir (de) m
• Greek: εμίρης (el) m (emíris)
• Hausa: sarki (ha)
• Hebrew: אֵמִיר (he) m (amír)
• Hindi: अमीर (hi) m (amīr)
• Hungarian: emír (hu)
• Indonesian: emir (id), amir (id)
• Irish: éimír m
• Italian: emiro (it) m
• Japanese: アミール (ja) (amīru)
• Kazakh: әмір (kk) (ämır)
• Korean: 아미르 (amireu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: emir (ku) m

• Kyrgyz: эмир (emir)
• Latvian: emīrs m
• Lithuanian: emyras (lt) m
• Macedonian: е́мир m (émir)
• Malay: amir
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: emir m

  Nynorsk: emir m

• Pashto: امير (ps) m (amír)
• Persian:

  Dari: اَمِیر (fa) (amīr)

  Iranian Persian: اَمیر (fa) (amir)

• Polish: emir (pl) m
• Portuguese: emir (pt) m
• Romanian: emir (ro) m
• Russian: эми́р (ru) m (emír)
• Sanskrit: हम्मीर (sa) m (hammīra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ѐмӣр m

  Latin: èmīr (sh) m

• Shan: ၸဝ်ႈၾ (shn) m
• Slovak: emír m
• Slovene: emir (sl) m
• Spanish: emir (es) m, amir m (rare)
• Swedish: emir (sv) c
• Tajik: амир (amir)
• Tatar: әмир (tt) (ämir)
• Turkish: emir (tr)
• Turkmen: emir
• Ukrainian: емі́р m (emír)
• Urdu: اَمِیر m (amīr)
• Uyghur: ئەمىر (emir)
• Uzbek: amir (uz)
• Vietnamese: êmia, hoàng thân (vi)

Further reading

• emir on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• IMer, Meir, Meri, Mire, Remi, meri, mire, reim, riem, rime

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əˈmir]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [eˈmir]

Noun

emir m (plural emirs)

1. emir

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Arabic أَمْر (ʔamr).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: e‧mir

Noun

emir

1. order

Declension

Declension of emir

	singular	plural
nominative	emir	emirler
genitive	emirniñ	emirlerniñ
dative	emirge	emirlerge
accusative	emirni	emirlerni
locative	emirde	emirlerde
ablative	emirden	emirlerden

Derived terms

• emir bermek
• emir etmek
• emirlik

References

• “emir”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Danish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish امیر (emir), from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander, prince”).

Noun

emir c (singular definite emiren, plural indefinite emirer)

1. emir (an Islamic prince or leader)

Declension

Declension of emir

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	emir	emiren	emirer	emirerne
genitive	emirs	emirens	emirers	emirernes

References

• “emir” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From French émir, from Ottoman Turkish امیر (emir), from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander, prince”). Doublet of admiraal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeː.mir/, [ˈeː.mir], [ˈeɪ̯.mir]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: emir

Noun

emir m (plural emirs, no diminutive)

1. emir (an Islamic prince or leader)

Derived terms

• emiraat

References

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛˈmiɾ/ [ɛˈmiɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Hyphenation: e‧mir

Noun

emir m (plural emires)

1. emir

Related terms

• emirato

Further reading

• “emir”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

Latin

Alternative forms

• emīrus

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander, prince”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɛ.miːr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛː.mir]

Noun

emīr m (genitive emīris); third declension

1. (New Latin) emir

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	emīr	emīrēs
genitive	emīris	emīrum
dative	emīrī	emīribus
accusative	emīrem	emīrēs
ablative	emīre	emīribus
vocative	emīr	emīrēs

Derived terms

• emīrātus

References

emir in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish امیر (emir), from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander, prince”).

Noun

emir m (definite singular emiren, indefinite plural emirer, definite plural emirene)

1. emir (an Islamic prince or leader)

References

• “emir” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish امیر (emir), from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander, prince”).

Noun

emir m (definite singular emiren, indefinite plural emirar, definite plural emirane)

1. emir (an Islamic prince or leader)

References

• “emir” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

emir

Etymology

Etymology tree

Ottoman Turkish امیرbor.

Polish emir

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish امیر.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛ.mir/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛmir
• Syllabification: e‧mir
• Homophone: Emir

Noun

emir m pers

1. emir (title of a prince, commander, or other leader or ruler in an Islamic nation)

   Hypernym: władca

2. (historical) emir (commander of armies in Arab countries until the 7th century; later: grand-governor of a conquered province)

Declension

Declension of emir

	singular	plural
nominative	emir	emirowie/emiry (deprecative)
genitive	emira	emirów
dative	emirowi	emirom
accusative	emira	emirów
instrumental	emirem	emirami
locative	emirze	emirach
vocative	emirze	emirowie/emiry (deprecative)

Derived terms

nouns

• emirat

Further reading

• “emir”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “emir”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)
• emir in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• amir

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish امیر (emir), from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander, prince”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /eˈmiʁ/ [eˈmih]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /eˈmiʁ/ [eˈmih]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /eˈmiɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /eˈmiʁ/ [eˈmiχ]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /eˈmiɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɛˈmiɾ/, /eˈmiɾ/, /iˈmiɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɛˈmiɾ/, /eˈmiɾ/, /iˈmiɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɛˈmi.ɾi/, /eˈmi.ɾi/, /iˈmi.ɾi/

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

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• Rhymes: (Brazil) -iʁ, (Portugal, São Paulo) -iɾ
• Hyphenation: e‧mir

Noun

emir m (plural emires)

1. emir (an Islamic prince or leader)

Derived terms

• emirado

Further reading

• “emir”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “emir”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Anagrams

• irem, riem

Romanian

Alternative forms

• емир (emir) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Borrowed from French émir, from Ottoman Turkish امیر (emir), from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eˈmir/
• Rhymes: -ir
• Hyphenation: e‧mir

Noun

emir m (plural emiri)

1. emir

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	emir	emirul	emiri	emirii
genitive-dative	emir	emirului	emiri	emirilor
vocative	emirule		emirilor

Spanish

Alternative forms

• amir (rare, directly from Arabic)

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish امیر (emir), from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander, prince”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eˈmiɾ/ [eˈmiɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: e‧mir

Noun

emir m (plural emires)

1. emir

Derived terms

• emirato

Descendants

• → Tagalog: emir

Further reading

• “emir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• emir on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

Swedish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish امیر (emir), from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander, prince”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːr

Noun

emir c

1. emir (an Islamic prince or leader)

Declension

Declension of emir

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	emir	emirs
	definite	emiren	emirens
plural	indefinite	emirer	emirers
	definite	emirerna	emirernas

Anagrams

• remi

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish emir (“emir”), from Ottoman Turkish امیر (emir), from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔeˈmiɾ/ [ʔɛˈmɪɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: e‧mir

Noun

emír (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜋᜒᜇ᜔)

1. emir

Related terms

• admiral
• almirante

Further reading

• “emir”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

Turkish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish امر (emr), from Old Anatolian Turkish امر (emr), from Classical Persian امر (amr), from Arabic أَمْر (ʔamr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.miɾ/, [e̞.miɾ̞̊]
• Hyphenation: e‧mir

Noun

emir (definite accusative emri, plural emirler)

1. command
2. order

Declension

Declension of emir

singular plural nominative emir emirler definite accusative emri emirleri dative emre emirlere locative emirde emirlerde ablative emirden emirlerden genitive emrin emirlerin Possessive forms nominative singular plural 1st singular emrim emirlerim 2nd singular emrin emirlerin 3rd singular emri emirleri 1st plural emrimiz emirlerimiz 2nd plural emriniz emirleriniz 3rd plural emirleri emirleri definite accusative singular plural 1st singular emrimi emirlerimi 2nd singular emrini emirlerini 3rd singular emrini emirlerini 1st plural emrimizi emirlerimizi 2nd plural emrinizi emirlerinizi 3rd plural emirlerini emirlerini dative singular plural 1st singular emrime emirlerime 2nd singular emrine emirlerine 3rd singular emrine emirlerine 1st plural emrimize emirlerimize 2nd plural emrinize emirlerinize 3rd plural emirlerine emirlerine locative singular plural 1st singular emrimde emirlerimde 2nd singular emrinde emirlerinde 3rd singular emrinde emirlerinde 1st plural emrimizde emirlerimizde 2nd plural emrinizde emirlerinizde 3rd plural emirlerinde emirlerinde ablative singular plural 1st singular emrimden emirlerimden 2nd singular emrinden emirlerinden 3rd singular emrinden emirlerinden 1st plural emrimizden emirlerimizden 2nd plural emrinizden emirlerinizden 3rd plural emirlerinden emirlerinden genitive singular plural 1st singular emrimin emirlerimin 2nd singular emrinin emirlerinin 3rd singular emrinin emirlerinin 1st plural emrimizin emirlerimizin 2nd plural emrinizin emirlerinizin 3rd plural emirlerinin emirlerinin

Synonyms

• (order): buyruk
• (command): komut

Etymology 2

Noun

emir (definite accusative emiri, plural emirler)

1. misspelling of emîr