Theseal ofGeorge of Antioch , first "admiral" ofSicily , with his title in Greek (ΑΜΗΡΑϹ,Amēras ) Florent de Varennes , firstadmiral of France , withLouis IX on theEighth Crusade VAdm Horatio Nelson ,RN , inTrafalgar Square ,London FADM Chester Nimitz ,USN Admiral Adm. Adm adml. ADM ( obsolete ) : admyralle amyrall ( to 1500s ) ;admarall admerell admerolle admirell admyrell amerall ammyrall amral amrell amrelle ( 1500s ) ;admirail admiralle admyral admyrall amiral amirall ammiral ( to 1600s ) ;admeral admerall ammirall admirant ( 1500s–1600s ) ;amrall ammirant ( 1600s ) ;admirall ( to 1700s ) ;admirante ( 1600s–1700s ) ;admirel ( 1700s ) FromMiddle English admiral Anglo-Norman Old French admiral Medieval Latin admiralis admirallus admiralius amiralis ad- admiror ( “ to admire, respect ” ) , fromArabic أَمِير ( ʔamīr ,“ commander ” ) +-alis ( “ -al ” ) . The ending is frequently but mistakenlyfolk etymologized to derive from the articleال ( al- ) , particularly inArabic أَمِير اَلبَحْر ( ʔamīr al-baḥr ,“ commander of thesea ” ) , first attested as aFatimid office, or inArabic أَمِير الْمُؤْمِنِين ( ʔamīr al-muʔminīn ,“ Commander of theBelievers ,caliph ” ) . It seems instead to have been borrowed from modification of only the first term inArabic أَمِير الْأُمَرَاء ( ʔamīr al-ʔumarāʔ ,“ emir ofemirs ,commander-in-chief ” ) as used asa title for important commanders inNorman Sicily in the mid-12th century. First attested as an English rank in reference toGervase Alard ofWinchelsea as "admiral of the fleet of theCinque Ports ".[ 1] Doublet ofemir amir Amir , and amira
admiral (plural admirals
( military , now informal ) commander of anaval squadron orfleet ,regardless offormal rank .[1429] ( military ) appointed commander of anavy ,regardless offormal title .[1440] ( military ) high rank in theBritish andAmerican Navies ,NATO grade OF-9 ,equivalent ranks inother navies , incoast guards ,etc. 1776 September 4,John Paul Jones ,letter toRobert Morris :... from my experience in Ours as well as from my former intimacy with many Officers of Note in the British Navy, I am convinced that the Parity of Rank between Sea & land or Marine Officers, is of more consequence to the harmony of the Service, than hath generally been imagined. — in the British Establishment — anAdmiral ranks with aGenl aVice Admiral with aLieut Genl aRear Admiral with aMajor Genl aCommodore with aBrigadier Genl — aCaptain with aColonel , amaster & Commander with aLieut Colnel — aLieut. Commanding with aMajor , and aLieutenant in the Navy Ranks with aCaptain of Horse, Foot or Marines. — I propose not our Enemies as an Example for ourGenl imitation — Yet as their Navy is the best regulated of any in the World, we must in Some degree imitate them and Aim at such further improvement as may one day make ours Vie with and Exceed theirs. 1836 March 17, 'Candor', "The Navy",Army and Navy Chronicle p. 173 :He has appealed to the navies of Europe to prove, that we ought to haveAdmirals ; then, of course he is willing, or at least ought to be so, to let their rules govern in promoting to that grade. The general principle which governs the navies of the old world is... when thePost is attained, then promotion is byinheritance ... If aPost Captain in the English navy lives long enough, he is certain of being anAdmiral , though not before he is sixty years of age... Hence it is manifest that the public interest no more requires the new grade ofAdmiral to be added to the navy, than it does the bestowing of orders of nobility on all the diplomatic agents, who represent theUnited States at the different courts of Europe. Thecommander of afishing ormerchant fleet ,particularly ( historical , Canada ) captain granted special privileges in exchange for bringing thefirst ship of agiven fishing season tocertain harbors inNewfoundland .[1589] ( zoology ) several species ofnymphalid butterflies of thegenera Kaniska Limenitis Vanessa [1799] ( conchology ) shell of theConus ammiralis cone shells ofvarious other species displaying similarly intricate banding .[1752] ( now historical ) Synonym offlagship : an admiral'sship in afleet , thecommand orlargest ship in anaval orcommercial fleet .[1557] ( now historical , uncommon ) Synonym ofemir , aMuslim commander orprince .[c. 1275] 2004 The Cervantes Encyclopedia , volume I, page373 :( botany , obsolete ) several varieties ofpear , thetrees whichproduce them.[1693] appointed commander of a navy
Afrikaans:admiraal Albanian:admiral (sq) Arabic:أَمِيرُ البَحْر m ( ʔamīru l-baḥr ) ,أَدْمِيرَال m ( ʔadmīrāl ) Armenian:ծովակալ (hy) ( covakal ) Azerbaijani:admiral (az) Belarusian:адміра́л m ( admirál ) Bulgarian:адмирал (bg) ( admiral ) Catalan:almirall (ca) Chinese:Mandarin:海軍上將 / 海军上将 ( hǎijūn shàngjiàng ) Czech:admirál (cs) m Danish:admiral (da) c Dutch:admiraal (nl) m Esperanto:admiralo ŝiparestro Estonian:admiral (et) Faroese:admirálur m Finnish:amiraali (fi) ,suuramiraali (fi) ,laivastoamiraali (fi) French:amiral (fr) m Galician:almiral (gl) m almirante m Georgian:ადმირალი ( admirali ) German:Admiral (de) m Greek:ναύαρχος (el) m ( návarchos ) Ancient:ναύαρχος m ( naúarkhos ) Hebrew:אַדְמִירָל (he) m ( admirál ) Hindi:नौसेनापति (hi) ( nausenāpti ) ,एडमिरल ( eḍmiral ) ,ऐडमिरल (hi) m ( aiḍmiral ) ,नावाधिपति ( nāvādhipti ) ,जलसेनापति (hi) ( jalsenāpti ) Hungarian:tengernagy (hu) ,admirális (hu) Icelandic:aðmíráll m Indonesian:laksamana (id) Interlingua:admiral Irish:aimiréal m Italian:ammiraglio (it) Japanese:海軍大将 ( かいぐんたいしょう, kaigun taishō ) ,提督 (ja) ( ていとく, teitoku ) Kazakh:адмирал ( admiral ) Korean:제독(提督) (ko) ( jedok ) Kyrgyz:адмирал (ky) ( admiral ) Latin:nāvarchus m Latvian:admirālis m Lithuanian:admirolas (lt) m Macedonian:адмирал m ( admiral ) Malay:laksamana Manx:ard-marragh m Maori:ātamira Norman:amitha m Northern Sami:admirála Norwegian:Bokmål:admiral (no) m Nynorsk:admiral m Ottoman Turkish:آمیرال ( amiral ) Persian:دریابد ( daryâbod ) Polish:admirał (pl) m Portuguese:almirante (pt) m Romanian:amiral (ro) m Russian:адмира́л (ru) m ( admirál ) Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:адмѝра̄л m Roman:admìrāl (sh) m Sicilian:ammiragghiu m Slovak:admirál m Slovene:admiral m Spanish:almirante (es) m Swahili:admirali Swedish:amiral (sv) c Tagalog:laksamana almirante (tl) ,ádmirál Tajik:адмирал (tg) ( admiral ) Thai:พลเรือเอก (th) ( pon-rʉʉa-èek ) Turkish:amiral (tr) Turkmen:admiral (tk) Ukrainian:адміра́л (uk) m ( admirál ) Urdu:امیر البحر m ( amīr al-bahr ) ,ایڈمرل m ( aiḍmiral ) Uyghur:ئادمىرال ( admiral ) Uzbek:admiral (uz) Vietnamese:đô đốc (vi) Welsh:llyngesydd m Yiddish:אַדמיראַל m ( admiral )
high naval rank in the British and American navies or equivalent ranks
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^ The Mastery of the Sea, by Cyril Field,page 234 “admiral,n. ”, inThe Dictionary of the Scots Language Scottish Language Dictionaries , 2004–present,→OCLC “admiral,n. ”, inOED Online Oxford University Press , launched 2000. J.D. Latham (Spring 1972), "Arabic into Medieval Latin",Journal of Semitic Studies , Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 40–41. David Abulafia (2012),The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean , pp. 321–322.Borrowed fromEnglish admiral
IPA (key ) : /ʔadmiˈɾal/ [ʔɐd̪.mɪˈɾ̪al̪] Hyphenation:ad‧mi‧ral admirál (Badlit spelling ᜀᜇ᜔ᜋᜒᜇᜎ᜔
( military ) admiral Borrowed fromDutch admiraal Middle Dutch ammirael Latin admīrārī ( “ toadmire , torespect ” ) , fromOld French amiral Latin amiralis Arabic أَمِير ( ʔamīr ,“ commander ” ) +-alis ( “ -al ” ) . Equivalent toamir bahar
admiral
admiral Synonym: laksamana admiral
alternative form ofamiral Admiral Haakon Bruun-Hanssen (to the left), Norwegian Chief of Defence, at Akershus Fortress. An admiralbutterfly resting on a flower. FromOld French admiral Medieval Latin admiralis Arabic أَمِير ( ʔamīr ,“ commander ” ) +-alis ( “ -al ” ) under influence fromadmīrārī ( “ toadmire , torespect ” ) .
IPA (key ) : /admɪˈrɑːl/ Rhymes:-ɑːl Hyphenation:ad‧mi‧ral admiral m definite singular admiralen indefinite plural admiraler definite plural admiralene
( military , nautical ) admiral ( a naval officer of the highest rank; the commander of a country's naval forces ) 1920 Jonas Lie ,Samlede Digterverker VI , page181 :kommandøren og admiralen the commander and the admiral 2015 January 12,NTBtekst :admiral Haakon Bruun-Hanssen har vært norsk forsvarssjef i noe over ett år Admiral Haakon Bruun-Hanssen has been Norwegian Chief of Defense for a little over a year 2011 December 30,Dagsavisen [dagsavisen.no] :den iranske marinens nestkommanderende, admiral Mahmoud Moussavi the Deputy Commander of the Iranian Navy, Admiral Mahmoud Moussavi ( historical ) commander-in-chief of a collection of ships belonging to anadmiralty ( zoology ) red admiral ( a bright red and black butterfly (Vanessa atalanta ) Synonym: admiralsommerfugl 2012 Indre anliggender :her om dagen så jeg en admiral på byen, den hadde forvillet seg inn i en bakgård på Grünerløkka the other day I saw an admiral in the city, it had strayed into a backyard on Grünerløkka FromOld French admiral Medieval Latin admiralis Arabic أَمِير ( ʔamīr ,“ commander ” ) +-alis ( “ -al ” ) under influence fromadmīrārī ( “ toadmire , torespect ” ) .
admiral m definite singular admiralen indefinite plural admiralar definite plural admiralane
( military , nautical ) admiral FromMedieval Latin admiralis Arabic أَمِير ( ʔamīr ,“ commander ” ) +-alis ( “ -al ” ) under influence fromadmīrārī ( “ toadmire , torespect ” ) .
admiral oblique singular , m oblique plural admiraus or admirax or admirals nominative singular admiraus or admirax or admirals nominative plural admiral
( Anglo-Norman ) alternative form ofamiral → Norwegian Bokmål:admiral → Norwegian Nynorsk:admiral → Russian:адмирал ( admiral ) see there for further descendants )“admiral ”, inAnglo-Norman Dictionary , Aberystwyth University, 2022–2025 Via variants influenced byLatin admīrārī ( “ toadmire , torespect ” ) .
admiral m plural admirali
obsolete form ofamiral admiral in Academia Română,Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a , Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010.→ISBN FromArabic اَمِير ( amīr ,“ commander ” ) +-al
IPA (key ) : /admǐraːl/ Hyphenation:ad‧mi‧ral admìrāl m anim Cyrillic spelling адмѝра̄л
admiral FromGerman Admiral English admiral Middle English Anglo-Norman Old French admiral Medieval Latin admiralis Arabic أَمِير ( ʔamīr ,“ commander ” ) +-alis ( “ -al ” ) under influence fromadmīrārī ( “ toadmire , torespect ” ) .
( Standard Slovene, tonal ) IPA (key ) : [ˌadmiˈɾâːl] ,SNPT :[admirȃl] ( Standard Slovene, non-tonal ) IPA (key ) : [ˌadmiˈɾaːl] ,SNPT :[admirál] ( Some Upper Carniolan and Carinthian dialects, particularly Rosen Valley dialect ) IPA (key ) : [ˌadmiˈʀâːl] ,SNPT :[admiṙȃl] Note: different distinctions and accent shifts do not necessarily exclude other and most of them exist in both tonal and non-tonal Slovene.
Rhymes:-aːl ( non-tonal ) Hyphenation:ad‧mi‧r‧al admirȃl m anim
admiral (sense 3) Admiral , a naval officer of the highest rank, abovevice admiral .( zoology ) Vanessa atalanta AnOpel car model. “admiral Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene),2014–2025 Borrowed fromEnglish admiral Doublet ofalmirante
ádmirál (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇ᜔ᜋᜒᜇᜎ᜔
( military ) admiral Synonyms: almirante laksamana 
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