ир

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ir"

Bashkir

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ēr (“man”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [irĕ], [ir̥]
• Hyphenation: ир (one syllable)

Noun

ир • (transliteration needed)

1. man

   Был көй ғәҙәттә ирҙәр бейегәндә уйнала.

   This tune is usually played when men dance.

   Күлде ҡамыш матурлай, ирҙе намыҫ матурлай.

   Cattail makes a lake nice, sense of dignity makes a man handsome.

2. husband

   Ҡатын бер ҡайҙа ла эшләмәй, ире елкәһендә йәшәй.

   The woman does not work anywhere (and) lives off her husband.

   Яңы хөкүмәткә ябай ауыл ҡатындарынан наказ – ирҙәребеҙҙе Себерҙән ҡайтарығыҙ!

   A mandate for the new government from ordinary rural women: bring our husbands home from Siberia! (i.e. create jobs at home.)

   Эстән янып-көйөүгә ҡарамаҫтан, кисерештәренең тамсыһын да иренә күрһәтергә ашыҡманы.

   Although ablaze within, (she) did not hurry to show a droplet of her feelings to her husband.

Declension

Declension of ир

	singular	plural
absolute	ир	ирҙәр
definite genitive	ирҙең	ирҙәрҙең
dative	иргә	ирҙәргә
definite accusative	ирҙе	ирҙәрҙе
locative	ирҙә	ирҙәрҙә
ablative	ирҙән	ирҙәрҙән

Antonyms

• ҡатын (“woman; wife”)

See also

• (spouse) хәләл ефет (formal), иптәш (informal)

Khakas

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ēr (“man, brave, warrior, tribesman”). See also Turkish er.

Noun

ир • (ir)

1. man
2. husband
3. tribesman

Mongolian

Etymology 1

Mongolian	Cyrillic
ᠢᠷ (ir)	ир (ir)

From Proto-Mongolic *hir, compare Daur xir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ir]
• Hyphenation: ир

Noun

ир • (ir)

1. blade, edge

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 2

Mongolian	Cyrillic
ᠢᠷ᠎ᠡ (ir-e)	ир (ir)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ir]
• Hyphenation: ир

Verb

ир • (ir)

1. second-person imperative of ирэх (irex, “to come”)

Ossetian

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *wiHráh (“man”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wiHrás, from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós. The traditional etymology from Proto-Indo-Iranian *áryas, the self-denominator of speakers of Indo-Iranian languages, is erroneous; see there for more.

Noun

ир • (ir)

1. Ossetians, the Ossetian nation
2. the speakers of the Iron dialect of the Ossetic language

Tatar

Etymology

Related to Turkish er.

Noun

ир • (ir)

1. man (adult male human)
2. husband

Ukrainian

Etymology

From Turkic, compare Crimean Tatar yır, Ottoman Turkish ایر (ır); ultimately from Proto-Turkic *yïr (“song”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɪr]

Noun

ир • (yr) m inan (genitive и́ру, nominative plural и́ри, genitive plural и́рів)

1. folk song of certain Turkic peoples

Declension

Declension of ир (inan hard masc-form accent-a)

	singular	plural
nominative	ир yr	и́ри ýry
genitive	и́ру ýru	и́рів ýriv
dative	и́рові, и́ру ýrovi, ýru	и́рам ýram
accusative	ир yr	и́ри ýry
instrumental	и́ром ýrom	и́рами ýramy
locative	и́рі ýri	и́рах ýrax
vocative	и́ре ýre	и́ри ýry

Further reading

• Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2015), “ир”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 6 (зга́га – ква́рта), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN

Yakut

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ẹri-.

Verb

ир • (ir)

1. (intransitive) (of ice, meat, etc.) to thaw

   Antonym: тоҥ (toñ, “to freeze”)

2. (intransitive) to warm up

   чэйи иһэн ир ― ceyi ihen ir ― warm up by drinking tea

Derived terms

• ириэр (irier, “to thaw”, causative, transitive)