amiral

adjectivecommon noun

Syllable Decomposition

amiral

from the Arabic أميرالبحر ʾāmyr āl-baḥr (prince of the sea) (composed of أمير, ʾāmyr ("commander, prince") and البحر, āl-baḥr ("the sea")). It seems that it was the Sicilians, at the crossroads of the Muslim and Christian worlds, who shortened the name to amiral. The word first appeared in French in 1249.

Definitions

militaire
papillons
biologie

Feminine

amirale

Plural

amiraux

Translations

  • germangerman:Admiral
  • englishenglish:admiral
  • chinesechinese:上将
  • koreankorean:대장
  • italianitalian:ammiraglio
  • japanesejapanese:提督
  • arabicarabic:أمير بحر
  • danishdanish:admiral
  • spanishspanish:almirante
  • finnishfinnish:amiraali
  • greekgreek:ναύαρχος
  • hebrewhebrew:אדמירל
  • dutchdutch:admiraal
  • polishpolish:admirał
  • portugueseportuguese:almirante
  • russianrussian:адмирал
  • swedishswedish:amiral
  • turkishturkish:amiral
  • ukrainianukrainian:адмірал

See also

amiral (adj.) amiralat (cn.)