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▪ Nisba formation from ↗ʔamīr in the sense of *‘holder of power, authority’.
▪ The shortened form, mīrī, seems to go back to Ottoman times when the term ↗ʔamīr resumed its initial importance and ʔamīrī, Tu (ʔe)mīrī, »was singled out to designate assets that belong of right to the highest Muslim authority, the Sultan. Throughout Ottoman history, it was used as a noun meaning ‘lands belonging to the government’, ‘land tax’ levied from them, as well as ‘the public treasury’. […] Muslim jurisprudence drew a distinction between privately-owned lands, mulk (either ʕušr or ḫarāǧ land, possessed by Muslims or by non-believers, respectively) and state property, ʔarḍ al-mamlakaẗ. In earlier years, the latter was designated by several names (e.g. ḫāṣṣ), and it was only under the Ottomans that it assumed the name mīrī. […] Upon the conquest of a given area by the Ottomans its agricultural lands, the most promising source of income, were declared mīrī« – A. Cohen, »Mīrī«, in EI².

hist

▪ ↗ʔamīr.
▪ …

cogn

▪ ↗ʔamīr.
▪ See also above, section CONC.

disc

▪ See above, section CONC.
▪ …

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deriv

► ʔarḍ ʔamīrī, n., government land (Syr.)
► al‑maṭbaʕaẗ al‑ʔamīriyyaẗ, n.f., government press.

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗ʔamara, ↗ʔamr, ↗ʔimmar, ↗ʔamāraẗ, ↗ʔamīr, ↗taʔmūr, ↗muʔāmaraẗ, ↗ĭstiʔmāraẗ, ↗muʔtamar, as well as, for the whole picture, ↗√ʔMR.

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