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emir

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ɛˈmɪə(ɹ)/
  • /ˈɛmɪə(ɹ)/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɪə(ɹ)
  • CMU ARPABET: IH0 M IH1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: EY0 M IH1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A prince, commander or other leader or ruler in an Islamic nation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A descendant of the prophet Muhammad.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: amir, emeer, ameer

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: ruler, swayer

Narrower terms: Osman I, Othman I

History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

74 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: emir — Islamic prince or leader
  • Arabic: أَمِير (ʔamīr) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Aramaic: 𐡀‬𐡌𐡉𐡓 — Islamic prince or leader
  • Aramaic: ܐܡܝܪ — Islamic prince or leader
  • Aramaic: ܐܡܝܖ — Islamic prince or leader
  • Armenian: ամիրա (amira) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Armenian: ամիր (amir) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Armenian: էմիր (ēmir) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Old Armenian: ամիրայ (amiray) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Azerbaijani: əmir — Islamic prince or leader
  • Bashkir: әмир (əmir) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Belarusian: эмі́р (emír) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Bengali: আমীর (amir) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Bulgarian: еми́р (emír) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Burmese: စော်ဘွား (caubhwa:) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Chinese Mandarin: 埃米爾 /埃米尔 (āimǐ'ěr) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Chinese Mandarin: 酋長 /酋长 (qiúzhǎng) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Coptic: ⲁⲙⲓⲣⲁ (amira) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Czech: emír — Islamic prince or leader
  • Danish: emir — Islamic prince or leader
  • Dutch: emir — Islamic prince or leader
  • Esperanto: emiro — Islamic prince or leader
  • Faroese: emirur — Islamic prince or leader
  • Finnish: emiiri — Islamic prince or leader
  • French: émir — Islamic prince or leader
  • Georgian: ამირი (amiri) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Georgian: ამირა (amira) — Islamic prince or leader
  • German: Emir — Islamic prince or leader
  • Greek: εμίρης (emíris) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Hausa: sarki — Islamic prince or leader
  • Hebrew: אֵמִיר (amír) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Hindi: अमीर (amīr) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Hungarian: emír — Islamic prince or leader
  • Indonesian: emir — Islamic prince or leader
  • Indonesian: amir — Islamic prince or leader
  • Irish: éimír — Islamic prince or leader
  • Italian: emiro — Islamic prince or leader
  • Japanese: アミール (amīru) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Kazakh: әмір (ämır) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Korean: 아미르 (amireu) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Northern Kurdish: emir — Islamic prince or leader
  • Kyrgyz: эмир (emir) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Latvian: emīrs — Islamic prince or leader
  • Lithuanian: emyras — Islamic prince or leader
  • Macedonian: е́мир (émir) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Malay: amir — Islamic prince or leader
  • Norwegian Bokmål: emir — Islamic prince or leader
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: emir — Islamic prince or leader
  • Pashto: امير (amír) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Dari: اَمِیر (amīr) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Iranian Persian: اَمیر (amir) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Polish: emir — Islamic prince or leader
  • Portuguese: emir — Islamic prince or leader
  • Romanian: emir — Islamic prince or leader
  • Russian: эми́р (emír) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Sanskrit: हम्मीर (hammīra) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Serbo-Croatian: ѐмӣр — Islamic prince or leader
  • Serbo-Croatian: èmīr — Islamic prince or leader
  • Shan: ၸဝ်ႈၾ — Islamic prince or leader
  • Slovak: emír — Islamic prince or leader
  • Slovene: emir — Islamic prince or leader
  • Spanish: emir — Islamic prince or leader
  • Spanish: amir — Islamic prince or leader
  • Swedish: emir — Islamic prince or leader
  • Tajik: амир (amir) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Tatar: әмир (ämir) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Turkish: emir — Islamic prince or leader
  • Turkmen: emir — Islamic prince or leader
  • Ukrainian: емі́р (emír) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Urdu: اَمِیر (amīr) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Uyghur: ئەمىر (emir) — Islamic prince or leader
  • Uzbek: amir — Islamic prince or leader
  • Vietnamese: êmia — Islamic prince or leader
  • Vietnamese: hoàng thân — Islamic prince or leader