amiral

From Middle English amiral etc., from Anglo-Norman and Old French amiral etc., from Medieval Latin amiralis, from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander”) + -alis (“-al”).

amiral (plural amirals)

1. Obsolete form of admiral.

• “admiral, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

From Old French amiral etc., from Medieval Latin amiralis, from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander”) + -alis (“-al”).

• IPA^(key): /a.mi.ʁal/

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amiral (feminine amirale, masculine plural amiraux, feminine plural amirales)

1. (relational) of an admiral

amiral m (plural amiraux, feminine amirale)

1. admiral (military officer)
   • 1759, Voltaire, Candide‎, page 160:

     Mais dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de tems en tems un Amiral pour encourager les autres.

     But in this country it's good from time to time to kill an admiral to encourage the others.

• contre-amiral
• vice-amiral
• vice-amiral d’escadre

• amiraulté

• → Ottoman Turkish: آمیرال
  • Turkish: amiral
• → Romanian: amiral
• → Swedish: amiral
  • → Finnish: amiraali

• “amiral”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• (all): amirel, amirell, amyrelle, amrel, amyrayl, amyrayle, amrayl, ameral, amerale, amerayle, admurel, amirall, ammiral, amerail, amirail, amirayl, amiraile, amyral, amyrall, amerel, admiral, admirall, admiralle, admirail, admyral, admyrall, admyralle
• (Muslim commander): amyraud, amireld, admirad, admyrold, ameraunt, ameravnt, amyrant, amyrawnt

From Anglo-Norman and Old French amiral, from Medieval Latin amiralis, from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander”) + -alis (“-al”). In forms including ad-, via variants derived under influence from admīrārī (“to admire, to respect”).

• IPA^(key): /amiˈraːl/, /ˈamiral/

amiral (plural amirales)

1. emir (a Muslim military commander, governor, or prince)
2. admiral (a high naval officer)

• English: amiral

• “amirāl, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• admirail, admiraill, admiral, admirall, admiralle, amirail, amiraill, amirant, amiraunt, amirau, amiraud, amiraude, ammiraille, amerail, ameraille, ameral, amerale, amerall, ameralle, amerayll, amerelle

From Medieval Latin amiralis, from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander”) + -alis (“-al”).

amiral oblique singular, m (oblique plural amiraus or amirax or amirals, nominative singular amiraus or amirax or amirals, nominative plural amiral)

1. admiral (military officer)
   1. (Anglo-Norman, law) naval officer with jurisdiction over maritime legal proceedings
2. (Anglo-Norman) emir; commander

• French: amiral
  • → Ottoman Turkish: آمیرال
    • Turkish: amiral
  • → Romanian: amiral
  • → Swedish: amiral
    • → Finnish: amiraali
• → Irish: aimiréal
• → Middle English: amiral
  • English: amiral
• Middle Dutch: ammirael
  • Dutch: admiraal
    • Afrikaans: admiraal
    • → Indonesian: admiral
    • → Papiamentu: atmiral
    • → West Frisian: admiraal

• admiral in Anglo-Norman Dictionary, Aberystwyth University, 2022

From French amiral etc., from Medieval Latin amiralis, from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander”) + -alis (“-al”).

amiral m (plural amirali)

1. admiral

From French amiral, from Medieval Latin amiralis, from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander”) + -alis (“-al”).

amiral c

1. an admiral[1]

• → Finnish: amiraali

From Ottoman Turkish آمیرال, from French amiral etc., from Medieval Latin amiralis, from Arabic أَمِير (ʔamīr, “commander”) + -alis (“-al”). Doublet of emir and amir.

• IPA^(key): /a.mi.ɾal/

amiral (definite accusative amirali, plural amiraller)

1. (military) admiral

• amirallik

• “amiral”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu