پیر

Baluchi

Adjective

پیر • (pír)

1. old

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Persian

Dari	پیر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	пир

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Persian pyl (pīr, “old, aged, ancient”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piːɾ/, [pʰiːɾ]

Adjective

پیر • (pir) (comparative پیرتَر (pir-tar), superlative پیرتَرین (pir-tarin))

1. old

Usage notes

When used with the words مرد (mard, “man”) and زن (zan, “woman”), پیر (pir) usually precedes them.

• پیر مرد (pir mard, “old man”)
• پیر زن (pir zan, “old woman”)

These are sometimes treated as compound words, i.e. پیرزن (pir-e-zan, pir-zan) and پیرمرد (pir-e-mard, pir-mard).

Inflection

Basic forms of پیر (pir)
bare	پیر (pir)
ezâfe	پیر (pir-e)
marked indefinite or relative definite	پیری (pir-i)

Predicative forms of پیر (pír)
	singular	plural
1st person (“I am, we are”)	پیرم (píram)	پیریم (pírim)
2nd person (“you are”)	پیری (píri)	پیرید (pírid) پیرین △ (pírin)
3rd person (“he/she/it is, they are”)	پیر است (pír ast) پیره △ (píre)	پیرند (pírand) پیرن △ (píran)
△ Colloquial.

Derived terms

• پیری (piri)
• پیرزن (pir-e-zan, pir-zan)
• پیرمرد (pir-e-mard, pir-mard)
• گنده‌پیر (gande-pir)

Noun

پیر • (pir)

1. (Sufism) Pir, Sheikh

Etymology 2

From پدر (pidar)

Alternative forms

• پدر (pedar)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piˈjæɾ/

Noun

پیر • (piyar)

1. (dialectal, Harat) father

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Urdu

Etymology 1

From Sanskrit *पदर (padara), from पद (pada, “foot”).

Noun

پَیر • (pair) m (Hindi spelling पैर)

1. foot
2. footprint

Etymology 2

From Persian پیر (pir, “old”).

Noun

پِیر • (pīr) m (Hindi spelling पीर)

1. old man
2. (Sufism) saint, mystic
3. Monday

See also

• (days of the week) ہَفْتے کے دِن (hafte ke din)‎; اِتْوَار (itvār)‎, پِیر (pīr)‎, مَن٘گَل (maṅgal)‎, بُدھ (budh)‎, جُمِعْرات (jumi'rāt)‎, جُمْعَہ (jum'a)‎, ہَفْتَہ (hafta)‎ ^{(Category: ur:Days of the week)}