mire

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Derived terms 1.2.1.2 Translations 1.2.2 Verb 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.4 Anagrams 2 French 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Noun 2.4 Anagrams 3 Galician 3.1 Verb 4 Hungarian 4.1 Etymology 4.2 Pronunciation 4.3 Pronoun 5 Irish 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Noun 6 Italian 6.1 Noun 7 Romanian 7.1 Etymology 7.2 Noun 8 Spanish 8.1 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈmɑɪə/
• (US) IPA: /ˈmɑɪɚɹ/
• Rhymes: -aɪə(r)

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old Norse mýrr.

[edit] Noun

mire (plural mires)

1. Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
2. An undesirable situation, a predicament.

[edit] Derived terms

• miry
• in the mire

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[edit] Verb

to mire (third-person singular simple present mires, present participle miring, simple past and past participle mired)

1. To weigh down.

[edit] Etymology 2

Perhaps related to Middle Dutch miere (Dutch mier). Cognate with Old Norse maurr, Danish myre.

[edit] Noun

mire (plural mires)

1. (obsolete) An ant.

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: eimr
• emir
• Meri
• rime

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[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

From Italian mira, from mirare.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /miʁ/

[edit] Noun

mire f. (plural mires)

1. (archaic) aim (action of aiming)
2. foresight (of rifle)
3. target (literal, figurative)
4. (television) test pattern

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• Alphagram: eimr
• émir
• Remi, Rémi
• rime, rimé

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[edit] Galician

[edit] Verb

mire

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of mirar.
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of mirar.

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[edit] Hungarian

[edit] Etymology

From the interrogative pronoun mi + -re

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmirɛ/
• Hyphenation: mi‧re

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mire

1. onto what

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[edit] Irish

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmɪrʲɪ/

[edit] Noun

mire f.

1. insanity, dementia, madness

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Noun

mire f.

1. Plural form of mira.

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[edit] Romanian

[edit] Etymology

Substratum word

[edit] Noun

mire m

1. bridegroom

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Verb

mire (infinitive: mirar)

1. formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of mirar, look! (polite)
2. first-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of mirar.
3. formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of mirar.
4. third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of mirar.