Definition of "emirs" [emirs]

• Plural form of emir. (noun)

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• "Verily I tell you, my beloved, and you may believe most truly, that in that same battle we killed thirty emirs, that is, princes, and three hundred other noble Turkic knights, not to mention the other Turks and pagans."
• "M.] 43 The partition of the Turkish emirs is extracted from two contemporaries, the Greek Nicephorus"
• "In late 2007, the U.S. military captured letters from two of al Qaeda's "emirs" in Iraq."