Mir

See also: mir, MIR, miR, mír, mìr, and mir.

English

Mir space station

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Received Pronunciation) /mɪə/, (General American) /mɪɹ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Russian мир (mir, “peace”).

Proper noun

Mir

1. A Soviet, later Russian space station.
2. A male given name.

Translations

an international space station

• Arabic: مِير m (mīr)
• Armenian: Միր (Mir), Միռ (Miṙ)
• Belarusian: Мір m (Mir)
• Bulgarian: Мир m (Mir)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 和平號 / 和平号 (Hépíng hào)

• Finnish: Mir
• Georgian: მირი (miri)
• Greek: Μιρ (el) (Mir)
• Hebrew: מיר m (mir)
• Hindi: मीर (hi) (mīr)
• Japanese: ミール (ja) (Mīru)
• Kazakh: Мир (Mir)
• Korean: 미르 (ko) (Mireu)
• Kyrgyz: Мир (Mir)
• Macedonian: Мир m (Mir)
• Marathi: मीर (mīr)
• Mongolian: Мир (Mir)
• Persian: میر (fa) (mir)
• Portuguese: Mir f
• Russian: Мир (ru) m (Mir)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Мир m

  Latin: Mir m

• Tajik: Мир (tg) (Mir)
• Thai: เมียร์ (mia)
• Ukrainian: Мир m (Myr)
• Yiddish: מיר (mir)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Persian مِیر (mīr, “commander; prince”).

Proper noun

Mir (plural Mirs)

1. A surname from Persian.

Anagrams

• IRM, MRI, RMI, rim

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Мир (Mir), from мир (mir, “peace”).

Proper noun

Mir f

1. Mir (an international space station)