چیره

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃiː.ɾa]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰiː.ɾä]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰiː.ɾä]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰiː.ɾä]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰi.ɾä]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰiː.ɹe]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃʰi.ɾä]

Readings
Classical reading?	čīra
Iranian reading?	čire
Tajik reading?	čira

Dari	چیره
Iranian Persian
Tajik	чира

Adjective

چیره • (čire) (comparative چیره‌تَر (čire-tar), superlative چیره‌تَرین (čire-tarin))

1. brave, strong, powerful
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 2266:

     نیست چیره چون ترا چیره کند
     نور ندهد مر ترا تیره کند

     nīst čīra čōn tarā čira kunad
     nūr na-dihad mar tarā tīra kunad

     He is not strong: how should he make thee strong?
     He does not give light, (nay) he makes thee dark.

2. rude, violent
3. prevailing, victorious

References

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “چیره”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “چیره”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul