English

Father Emir

father + emir: Borrowed from Arabic.

A compound of father + emir

Proto-Indo-European *ph₂tḗr

Proto-Germanic *fadēr

Proto-West Germanic *fader

Old English fæder

Middle English fader ‘a father’

Arabic أَمِير ‘commander’

Ottoman Turkish امیر ‘commander’

Middle French emir

English emir

Today it means

noun The title of a retired emir. The title for the abdicated predecessor of an emir-regnant.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Father Emir