Arabic vocabulary

أَمِيرِcommander in Arabic

أَمِيرِ is how you say “commander” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

تَدْرُونَ مَا جَرَى بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَ أَمِيرِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ هَارُونِ الرَّشِيدِ؟
Do you know what happened between me and the Commander of the Faithful, Harun al-Rashid?
أَمِيرِ — Commander. This title noun heads an ownership pair with the word after it, in the 'of' (genitive) form because the preceding 'between' governs it, and it also leads its own possessive chain. As pair-leader it drops its 'the'. It reads as 'Commander of ...'.
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