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 • (ir)

1. man

   Был көй ғәҙәттә ирҙәр бейегәндә уйнала.

   Bıl köy ğäðättä irðär beyegändä uynala.

   This tune is usually played when men dance.

   Күлде ҡамыш матурлай, ирҙе намыҫ матурлай.

   Külde qamış maturlay, irðe namıθ maturlay.

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

2. husband

   Ҡатын бер ҡайҙа ла эшләмәй, ире елкәһендә йәшәй.

   Qatın ber qayða la eşlämäy, ire yelkähendä yäşäy.

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

   Яңы хөкүмәткә ябай ауыл ҡатындарынан наказ – ирҙәребеҙҙе Себерҙән ҡайтарығыҙ!

   Yaŋı xökümätkä yabay awıl qatındarınan nakaz – irðärebeððe Seberðän qaytarığıð!

   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.

   Estän yanıp-köyöwgä qaramaθtan, kisereştäreneŋ tamsıhın da irenä kürhätergä aşıqmanı.

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

Declension

Inflection of ир (ir)

	singular	plural
absolute	ир (ir)	ир (ir)
definite genitive	ир (ir)	ир (ir)
dative	ир (ir)	ир (ir)
definite accusative	ир (ir)	ир (ir)
locative	ир (ir)	ир (ir)
ablative	ир (ir)	ир (ir)

Antonyms

• ҡатын (qatın, “woman; wife”)

See also

• (spouse) хәләл ефет (xäläl yefet) (formal), иптәш (iptäş) (informal)

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Khakas

Etymology

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

Noun

ир • (ir)

1. man
2. husband
3. tribesman

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Mongolian

Etymology

From Proto-Mongolic *hir, compare Daur xir.

Noun

ир • (ir)

1. blade, edge

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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

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Tatar

Etymology

Related to Turkish er.

Noun

ир • (ir)

1. man (adult male human)
2. husband

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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), volume 6: зга́га – ква́рта, Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN

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Yakut

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

ир • (ir)

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

   Antonym: тоҥ (toŋ, “to freeze”)

2. (intransitive) to warm up

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

Derived terms

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