sir

See also Sir, sır, sír, sîr, șir, and şîr

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle English sir, from Old French sire (“master, sir, lord”), from Latin senior (“older, elder”), from senex (“old”). Compare sire, signor, seignior, señor.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /sɜː(ɹ)/, X-SAMPA: /s3:(r)/
• (US) enPR: sûr, IPA: /sɝ/, X-SAMPA: /s3`/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)

Noun

Wikipedia sir or Sir (plural sirs)

1. A man of a higher rank or position.
2. An address to a military superior of either sex.

   Yes sir.

3. An address to any male, especially if his name or proper address is unknown.

   Excuse me, sir, could you tell me where the nearest bookstore is?

Derived terms

• sirrah
• sirree
• siree

Related terms

• senior
• senex
• senate

Translations

man of a higher rank or position

• Dutch: heer (nl) m, meneer (nl) m
• Greek: Σέρ (el) (Sér) m
• Hungarian: úr (hu)

• Turkish: efendim (tr)
• Ukrainian: пан (uk) (pán) m

address to a military superior

• Dutch: meneer (nl) m
• French: monsieur (fr) m
• Russian: (comrade) товарищ (ru) (továrišč) m (+ military rank) (in the Soviet/Russian army), сэр (ru) (ser) m (in translations from English), господин (ru) (gospodín) m (+ military rank) (in the Russian army before 1917)

• Turkish: komutanım (tr)

address to any male, especially if his name or proper address is unknown

• Arabic: أستاذ (ar) (ʼustaadh) m, سيد (ar) (sáyyid) m, سيدي (ar) (sayyidi) m, حضرتك (ar) (HaDrátak) m, أفندي (ar) ('afándiy) m
• Armenian: պարոն (hy) (paron)
• Baluchi: واجہ (wája)
• Belarusian: спадар (be) (spadár) m, пан (be) (pan) m
• Bulgarian: господин (bg) (gospodín) m
• Burmese: ဦး (my) (u:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 先生 (cmn) (xiānsheng)

• Czech: pan (cs) m, pán (cs) m
• Dutch: meneer (nl) m, mijnheer (nl) m
• French: monsieur (fr) m
• German: Herr m, mein Herr m (my lord)
• Greek: κύριος (el) (kýrios) m, κύριε m (vocative case)
• Hindi: श्रीमान (hi) (śrīmān) m, श्री (hi) (śrī), सर (hi) (sar) m, साहिब (hi) (sāhib) m, महोदय (hi) (mahōday) m

• Hungarian: uram (hu)
• Japanese: だんな (ja) (danna), サー (ja) (sā) (in translations from English)
• Korean: 선생님 (ko) (seonsaengnim), -씨 (ko) (-ssi)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: کاک

• Latin: dominus (la) m, domine m (vocative case)
• Macedonian: господин (mk) (góspodin) m, господине (mk) (gospódine) m (vocative case)
• Persian: آقا (fa) (âqâ)
• Polish: pan m, panie m (vocative case)
• Portuguese: senhor (pt) m
• Russian: (obsolete) сударь (ru) (súdar’) m, господин (ru) (gospodín) m, сэр (ru) (ser) m (in translations from English)
• Spanish: señor (es) m
• Turkish: beyefendi (tr)
• Ukrainian: пан (uk) (pan) m
• Urdu: صاحب (ur) (sāhib) m

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• Catalan: senyor m
• French: seigneur (fr) m
• Italian: signore m

• Portuguese: senhor m
• Romanian: domn m (1), domnule (vocative form of domn) m (3)
• Slovak: pán m, pane m vocative
• Spanish: señor m

Verb

sir (third-person singular simple present sirs, present participle sirring, simple past and past participle sirred)

1. to address somebody using sir

   Please don't sir me!

See also

• dame
• lord
• madam, ma'am, mam
• mister

External links

• sir in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• sir in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• IRS
• ISR
• RSI

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Lojban

Rafsi

sir

1. rafsi of sirji.

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Scottish Gaelic

Verb

sir (verbal noun sireadh)

1. seek, search, look for

Synonyms

• lorg

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *syrъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sîr/

Noun

sȉr m (Cyrillic spelling си̏р)

1. cheese

Declension

    declension of sir

	singular	plural
nominative	sȉr	sìrevi
genitive	sira	sireva
dative	siru	sirevima
accusative	sir	sireve
vocative	siru	sirevi
locative	siru	sirevima
instrumental	sirom	sirevima

Derived terms

• sȋrnī

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *syrъ.

Noun

sir m inan. (dual sira, plural siri)

1. cheese

Declension

Declension of sir (masculine inanimate, hard)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	sir	sira	siri
accusative	sir	sira	sire
genitive	sira	sirov	sirov
dative	siru	siroma	sirom
locative	siru	sirih	sirih
instrumental	sirom	siroma	siri

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Welsh

Noun

sir f (plural siroedd) 

1. county, shire