A square worth showing up for Where we meet with culture, questions, and craft.
Knock with your name — from any language. Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Russian, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Irish, Haitian Creole, Jamaican Patois, and more. If we know it, you get a plain-English meaning, where it comes from, and the name in its own script when there is a real one. Tap Hear it to hear it said. We only write what is well known. If we don’t have it, we say so.
Guests can ask about the names set out front. The rest of the list is inside the club.
Arabic
Amir
Also Ameer, Emir
Recorded voice
In its own script
Arabic
أمير
Meaning
A prince, or a commander.
Origin
Arabic amir, a prince or a person who commands. The same word is the title emir. As a given name it is just Amir.