emirate

See also: Emirate

English

Etymology

From emir +‎ -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, the concrete charge of it).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛməɹət/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

emirate (plural emirates)

1. A country ruled by an emir.
2. The office of an emir.

Derived terms

• Arab Emirates
• Caucasus Emirate
• Emirate of Bari
• Emirate of Sicily
• Emirates
• Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
• United Arab Emirates

 

Translations

country ruled by an emir

Albanian: emirat m Arabic: إِمَارَة f (ʔimāra) (plural: إِمَارَات f pl (ʔimārāt)) Armenian: էմիրություն (ēmirutʻyun) Azerbaijani: əmirlik Bashkir: әмирлек (əmirlek) Belarusian: эміра́т m (emirát) Bengali: আমিরাত (bn) (amirat) Bulgarian: еми́рство m (emírstvo), емира́т m (emirát) Catalan: emirat (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 酋長國 / 酋长国 (zh) (qiúzhǎngguó), 君主國 / 君主国 (zh) (jūnzhǔguó) Crimean Tatar: emirlik Czech: emirát m Danish: emirat n Dutch: emiraat (nl) n Esperanto: emirlando Estonian: emiraat Finnish: emiraatti (fi) French: émirat (fr) m Galician: emirato m Georgian: ემირატი (emiraṭi) German: Emirat (de) n Greek: εμιράτο (el) n (emiráto) Hebrew: אֶמִירוּת f (emirát) Hindi: अमीरात f (amīrāt) Hungarian: emírség (hu), emirátus (hu) Icelandic: furstadæmi n Ido: emirio (io) Indonesian: keamiran, emirat (id) Irish: éimíríocht f Italian: emirato (it) m Japanese: 首長国 (ja) (しゅちょうこく, shuchōkoku) Kazakh: әмірлік (ämırlık) Khmer: អេមីរ៉ាត (ʼeemiiraat) Korean: 에미리트 (emiriteu), 수장국(首長國) (sujangguk), 토후국(土侯國) (ko) (tohuguk) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: mîrnişîn (ku) Kyrgyz: эмирлик (emirlik), эмират (emirat) Lao: ເອມິເລດ (ʼē mi lēt) Latvian: emirāts m Lithuanian: emyratas m Macedonian: емира́т m (emirát) Malay: emiriah Norwegian: Bokmål: emirat n Nynorsk: emirat n Pashto: امارت (ps) m (emārát) Persian: امارت (fa) (emârat) Polish: emirat (pl) m Portuguese: emirado (pt) m Romanian: emirat (ro) n Russian: эмира́т (ru) m (emirát) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: емѝра̄т m Roman: emìrāt (sh) m Slovak: emirát (sk) m Slovene: emirat (sl) m Spanish: emirato m Swedish: emirat (sv) n Tagalog: emirato Tajik: иморат (imorat) Tatar: әмирлек (ämirlek) Thai: เอมิเรต (ee-mí-rèet) Turkish: emirlik (tr) Turkmen: emirlik Ukrainian: еміра́т m (emirát) Urdu: امارت f (imārat) Uyghur: ئەمىرلىك (emirlik) Uzbek: amirlik (uz) Vietnamese: tiểu vương quốc Volapük: lemirän Welsh: emirad m West Frisian: emiraat Yiddish: עמיראַט (emirat)

Further reading

• emirate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• emerita, meatier