emperor

Etymology
From, from , from , derived from. .

Noun



 * 1) The male monarch or ruler of an empire.
 * 2) Any monarch ruling an empire, irrespective of gender, with "empress" contrasting to mean the consort of an emperor.
 * 3)  Specifically, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire; the world-monarch.
 * 4)  The fourth trump or major arcana card of the tarot deck.
 * 5) A large, relatively valuable marble in children's games.
 * 6) Any fish of the family.
 * 7)  Any of various butterflies of the subfamily.
 * 8)  Any of various large dragonflies of the cosmopolitan genus.
 * 9) An emperor penguin.
 * 1)  Specifically, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire; the world-monarch.
 * 2)  The fourth trump or major arcana card of the tarot deck.
 * 3) A large, relatively valuable marble in children's games.
 * 4) Any fish of the family.
 * 5)  Any of various butterflies of the subfamily.
 * 6)  Any of various large dragonflies of the cosmopolitan genus.
 * 7) An emperor penguin.
 * 1)  Any of various large dragonflies of the cosmopolitan genus.
 * 2) An emperor penguin.

Usage notes

 * The only monarch presently styled "emperor" is the Emperor of Japan (in Japanese:, tennō). The British monarch ceased to be styled Emperor of India in 1948.
 * An emperor is generally addressed as His Imperial Majesty.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: قَيْصَر, إِمْبْرَاطُور
 * Hijazi Arabic: إِمْبْراطور
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: կայսր, կեսար
 * Aromanian: ampirat
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: imperator, padşah
 * Basque: enperadorea
 * Belarusian: імпера́тар, цар
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 皇帝
 * Dungan: хуонди, хуоншон
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Coptic: ⲁⲩⲧⲟⲕⲣⲁⲧⲱⲣ
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Dzongkha: རྒྱལ་ཆེན
 * Esperanto: imperiestro
 * Estonian:, imperaator
 * Extremaduran: emperaol
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: imperadôr
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: იმპერატორი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: αὐτοκράτωρ, καῖσαρ, αὐτάναξ
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: सम्राट, महाराजा, क़ैसर, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: ,
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: imperator
 * Irish: impire
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:,  ,  ,
 * Kazakh: император, патша
 * Khmer:, រាជាធិរាជ,
 * Korean:, ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao: ຈັກກະພັດ, ຈັກກະວັດ, ນໍຣິນ, ນໍລິນ, ຣາເຊນ
 * Latin:, autocratōr , basileus
 * Latvian: imperators, ķeizars
 * Ligurian: imperatô
 * Lithuanian: imperatorius, ciesorius
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Kaiser
 * Luxembourgish: Keeser
 * Macedonian: импера́тор, цар
 * Malay: kaisar, maharaja, khakan
 * Malayalam: സാമ്രാട്ട്,
 * Maltese: imperatur
 * Manchu: ᡥᡡᠸᠠᠩᡩᡳ, ᡥᠠᠨ
 * Mandinka: mansa
 * Manx: ard-ree
 * Maori: emepara, epara
 * Marathi: सम्राट
 * Middle English: emperour, kayser
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: эзэн хаан
 * Norman: empéreu
 * North Frisian: keiser
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: keisar
 * Occitan:
 * Old Occitan: emperador
 * Old Czech: ciesař
 * Old English: cāsere
 * Pashto:, کيسر,
 * Persian:, , , ,
 * Polish:, , , kajzer,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Quechua: qhapaq
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: imperatur, imperataur, imperatour, caiser
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:, ,
 * Saterland Frisian: Kaiser
 * Scottish Gaelic: ìmpire
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ца̏р, импѐра̄тор, це̏са̄р
 * Latin:, ,
 * Sicilian: mpiraturi
 * Silesian: cysŏrz
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene:, imperátor
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: kejžor
 * Upper Sorbian: kejžor
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kaisari
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik: император, қайсар, подшоҳ, подишоҳ
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: imperator, patyşa
 * Ukrainian: імпера́тор,
 * Urdu: شَہنْشاہ, سَمْراٹ, قَیصَر
 * Uyghur: ئىمپېراتور, پادىشا
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Venetian: inperadore, inperador
 * Vietnamese:, thiên hoàng
 * Vilamovian: kazer
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: ymerawdwr
 * West Frisian: keizer
 * Yiddish: קייסער, אימפּעראַטאָר

Etymology
From.