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

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ʔɪ.mɑː.ɾät̪]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [ʔɪ.mɑː.ɾät̪]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [ʔi.mɔː.ɾät̪]

Readings
Classical reading? imārat
Dari reading? imārat
Iranian reading? emârat
Tajik reading? imorat

Noun

Dari امارت
Iranian Persian
Tajik иморат

امارت • (emârat) (plural امارات (emârât))

  1. emirate

Descendants

Further reading

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian عمارت ('imārat), from Arabic عِمَارَة (ʕimāra, structure, building).

Pronunciation

Noun

اِمارَت • (imārat) f (Hindi spelling इमारत)

  1. possession of command; the office, and authority of a commander, governor, etc. (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 (urdū luġat) (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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