Amira in Arabic: How to Write أميرة, and What It Means

Amira in Arabic is أميرة, pronounced Amīra. Amira is an Arabic name, so it has a fixed Arabic spelling. It has five letters: alif with hamza above, mīm, yāʾ, rāʾ and tāʾ marbūṭa. With its vowel marks it is أَمِيرَة. The name means princess.

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Amira in Arabic calligraphy: أميرة in three styles

Three renders of أميرة, in Amiri, Reem Kufi and Alkalami, drawn straight from the font files.

How أميرة is spelled, letter by letter

أميرة has five letters, read from right to left, starting with the letter أ, alif with hamza above. أ alif with hamza above and ر rāʾ never join the letter after them, so أميرة always shows two small gaps. Arabic writes only long vowels as letters. The three short vowels are marks that everyday spelling leaves out; أَمِيرَة shows them.

What does Amira mean?

Amira means princess, from the Arabic root ء م ر. That is the meaning our list of Arabic girl names with their meanings gives, from the sources named there.

Amira is the feminine of Amir, أمير, prince or commander, made with the feminine ending ة; Behind the Name and Wiktionary give it that way.

Amira and Amirah: English spellings of أميرة

Arabic has one spelling, أميرة; English has several. Amira was one of the 500 most common names given to girls born in the US in 2024, in the Social Security Administration's 2024 national file, as copied in the usbabynames data package, and Amirah are in the US top 1,000 for 2024 as well. They are all one Arabic name. The final ة, tāʾ marbūṭa, is the usual feminine ending of Arabic names and is said as a short a. Amirah is the same name with an h written for that ending.

Do not build Amira from its English sound. A sound-by-sound converter turns it into أميرا, letter by letter a, m, ee, r, aa, and that is what the rule engine of our own name tool gives, marked as an estimate. Arabic already has this name, so copy أميرة.

The titles Arabic Wikipedia gives people called Amira show how Arabic writers handle the name:

The Dutch singer Amira Willighagen is أميرة فيليخاخن: the Arabic spelling of her first name.

Two related names on this site are Aaliyah in Arabic, عالية and Fatima in Arabic, فاطمة. For Arabic names to choose from, browse the Arabic girl names with their meanings, part of our Arabic vocabulary lists.

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