Emperor

Etymology
From, borrowed from and  (Modern 🇨🇬), from , from. .

Noun

 * 1) The male monarch or ruler of an empire.
 * 2) * 1885,, (translator), Don Quixote Volume 2 Chapter XXIV
 * They asked Julius Caesar, the valiant Roman emperor, what was the best death. He answered, that which is unexpected, which comes suddenly and unforeseen
 * 1) Any monarch ruling an empire, irrespective of gender, with "empress" contrasting to mean when consort to emperor
 * 2) *1994 Het Spinhuis, Transactions: Essays in Honor of Jeremy F. Boissevain
 * In 690 Wu usurped the throne and became Emperor herself, which proved a unique event in the history of China.
 * 1) *2002 The Heritage of World Civilizations: To 1700 page 226
 * After his death in 683 she ruled for seven years as regent and then, deposing her son, became emperor herself, the only woman in Chinese history to hold the title.
 * 1) *2008 Encyclopedia of Barbarian Europe: Society in Transformation page 211
 * Empress, imperial regent, and even emperor herself (r. 797–802), Irene was an important and powerful figure at the Byzantine court in the late eighth and early ninth century.
 * 1) *2013 Voyages in World History page 213
 * Originally the wife of the emperor, she engineered the imperial succession so that she could serve first as regent to a boy emperor and then as emperor herself.
 * 1) *2016, Commander Pakydus, "Sindbad & the 7 Galaxies"
 * Where is Sindbad? I have a summons for him direct from the galactic emperor herself. He is to be brought here immediately to give an explanation for his recent actions.
 * 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 various butterflies of the subfamily.
 * 1) Any fish of the family.
 * 2)  Any various butterflies of the subfamily.

Usage notes

 * The only monarch presently styled "emperor" is the Emperor of Japan (, 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
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: կայսր, կեսար
 * Aromanian: ampirat
 * Asturian: emperador
 * Azerbaijani: imperator
 * Belarusian: імпера́тар, цар
 * Bengali: সম্রাট
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 皇帝
 * Dungan: хуонди, хуоншон
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Dzongkha: རྒྱལ་ཆེན
 * Esperanto: imperiestro
 * Estonian:, imperaator
 * Extremaduran: emperaol
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: imperadôr
 * Galician: emperador
 * 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
 * Khmer:, រាជាធិរាជ,
 * Korean:,   ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ຈັກກະພັດ, ຈັກກະວັດ, ນໍຣິນ, ນໍລິນ, ຣາເຊນ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: imperators, ķeizars
 * Lithuanian: imperatorius, ciesorius
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Kaiser


 * Luxembourgish: Keeser
 * Macedonian: импера́тор, цар
 * Malay: kaisar, maharaja, khakan
 * Malayalam: സാമ്രാട്ട്
 * Mandinka: mansa
 * Manx: ard-ree
 * Maori: emepara, epara
 * Marathi: सम्राट
 * Middle English: emperour
 * Mongolian: эзэн хаан
 * Norman: empéreu
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: keisar
 * Occitan:
 * Old Occitan: emperador
 * Old English: cāsere
 * Pashto:, کيسر,
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Quechua: qhapaq
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: imperatur, imperataur, imperatour, caiser
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ìmpire
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ца̏р, импѐра̄тор, це̏са̄р
 * Latin:, ,
 * Sicilian: mpiraturi
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene:, imperátor
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: kejžor
 * Upper Sorbian: kejžor
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kaisari
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: baginda,
 * Tajik: император
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: จักรพรรดิ, ฮ่องเต้
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: imperator
 * Ukrainian: імпера́тор,
 * Urdu: سمراٹ, قیصر
 * Uyghur: ئىمپېراتور
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: inperadore, inperador
 * Vietnamese:, thiên hoàng
 * Vilamovian: kazer
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: ymerawdwr
 * Yiddish: קייסער, אימפּעראַטאָר