different between amir vs ali

English

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (?am?r, “commander, prince”). Akin to Amir, emir and admiral.

Noun

amir (plural amirs or (rare) umara)

1. Alternative form of emir

Anagrams

• Irma, Mair, Mari, Mira, RIMA, mair, raim, rami, rima

Maranao

Noun

amir

1. emir

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?mi?/, [a?mi?]

Noun

amir m (plural amires)

1. Rare form of emir.

Further reading

• “amir” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Tolai

Alternative forms

• mir

Pronoun

amir

1. First-person exclusive dual pronoun: he/she and I, him/her and me

Declension

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ?mir (?mir).

Noun

amir (definite accusative amiri, plural amirler)

1. chief

Declension

References

• amir in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??li/

Noun

alí f 

1. reptile

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???li]
• Hyphenation: a?li

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (?aliyy).

Adjective

ali (comparative daha ali, superlative ?n ali)

1. supreme, higher, high (dominant)

Derived terms

• alilik

Further reading

• “ali” in Obastan.com.

Elfdalian

Etymology

From Old Norse hali, from Proto-Germanic *halô.

Noun

ali m (oblique ålå)

1. (anatomy) tail

Derived terms

• ålåbuss
• ålåell
• ålåglinder

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?l?/
• Rhymes: -?a?l?
• Homophones: alið, æli, ælið

Noun

ali n (genitive singular alis, uncountable)

1. quality, property, characteristic, nature (of someone or something)

Declension

Derived terms

• alisfrøði (“physics”)

Verb

ali

1. indicative first-person singular present of at ala
2. optative of at ala

Finnish

(index al)

Etymology

From ala- +? -i. Cognate with Estonian all and Hungarian alatt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??li/, [??li]
• Rhymes: -?li
• Syllabification: a?li

Postposition

ali (+ genitive, shorter form for alitse)

1. beneath, underneath (when one goes through the space that is underneath something)

Usage notes

ali never receives a possessive suffix; alitse is used instead if possessive forms are desired.

Inflection

Synonyms

• (beneath, underneath) alitse

Antonyms

• (beneath, underneath) yli, ylitse

Related terms

• See the inflection table.
• ala-
• ali-
• alemmas
• alempana
• alhainen
• alittaa

Gorontalo

Noun

ali

1. a hole sunk into the ground as a source of water or other fluids; well.

Icelandic

Noun

ali

1. indefinite accusative plural of alur

Italian

Noun

ali f

1. plural of ala

Verb

ali

1. second-person singular present indicative of alare
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of alare
3. second-person singular present subjunctive of alare
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of alare
5. third-person singular imperative of alare

Anagrams

• Lia

Kapampangan

Interjection

ali

1. no

Antonyms

• wa

Laboya

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *huaji-q, from *huaji, from Proto-Austronesian *Suaji.

Noun

ali

1. younger sibling

References

• Rina, A. Dj.; Kabba, John Lado B. (2011) , “ali”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 6
• Laboya in Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

Latin

Verb

al?

1. present passive infinitive of al?

Lavukaleve

Noun

ali m

1. man

Limos Kalinga

Noun

ali

1. king

Middle English

Adjective

ali

1. Alternative form of holy (sacred)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

ali

1. (non-standard since 2012) definite plural of al

Verb

ali

1. (non-standard since 2012) past participle of ala and ale

O'odham

Alternative forms

• 'ali

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?i/

Noun

ali (plural a'al)

1. child, baby

Old Norse

Noun

ali

1. indefinite accusative plural of alr

Verb

ali

1. third-person active present subjunctive of ala

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• aly (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese ali, aly, from Latin ad illic.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?.?li/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.?li/
• Hyphenation: a?li

Adverb

ali (not comparable)

1. there (far from both the speaker and the audience)

   Synonym: lá

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ali.

Usage notes

Usually ali implies a nearer position than lá.

See also

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ali, *ale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /âli/
• Hyphenation: a?li

Conjunction

?li (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. but
2. however
3. (Croatia) or, if

Synonyms

• (Croatia) ale, nu

Slovene

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation 1

The second pronunciation is used in the second sense.

• IPA^(key): /áli/, /á?li/

Conjunction

?li or ?li

1. or
2. (ali ... ali) either ... or

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /ali/

Particle

ali

1. Introduces a yes-no question.

Further reading

• “ali”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran