إمارة

Arabic

Etymology

Verbal noun of أَمَرَ (ʾamara, to become an emir) and أَمُرَ (ʾamura, (same)), from the root ء م ر (ʾ-m-r); compare آمِر (ʾāmir, emir), أَمَرَ (ʾamara, to command).

Noun

إِمَارَة (ʾimāra) f (plural إِمَارَات (ʾimārāt))

  1. verbal noun of أَمَرَ (ʾamara) (form I)
  2. verbal noun of أَمُرَ (ʾamura) (form I)
  3. emirate
  4. government, power, dominion, authority
  5. prefecture
  6. position or rank of an emir
  7. princely manners

Declension

Derived terms

References

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), إمارة”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), أمر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Noun

إِمَارَة (ʾimāra) f (plural إِمَارَات (ʾimārāt) or أَمَائِر (ʾamāʾir))

  1. sign, indication, waymark

Declension

References

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