bir

See also: BIR, Bir, and bír

Afar

Temporal adverbs

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbir/, [ˈbɪɾ]
• Hyphenation: bir

Adverb

bír

1. last night

Noun

bír m 

1. last night

Declension

Declension of bír
absolutive	bír
predicative	bíri
subjective	bír
genitive	birtí
Postpositioned forms l-case bíril k-case bírik t-case bírit h-case bírih

References

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “bir”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2004) Parlons Afar: Langue et Culture, L'Hammartan, →ISBN, page 37
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *bira, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérus (compare Old English byre, Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂 (baur, “son”)). Phonetically and semantically close to Messapic *bilia (“daughter”) and *biles (“son”), Matzinger reconstructs two different roots: Proto-Albanian *bʰi-ro and Proto-Messapic *bʰi-lo, both from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH (“to grow, become”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biɾ/

Noun

bir m (indefinite plural bij, definite singular biri, definite plural bijtë)

1. son

Declension

Declension of bir

	indefinite		definite
	singular	plural	singular	plural
nominative	bir	bij	biri	bijtë
accusative			birin
dative	biri	bijve	birit	bijvet
ablative		bijsh

Azerbaijani

Other scripts

Cyrillic		бир
Perso-Arabic		بیر‎

Azerbaijani numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: bir     Ordinal: birinci

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish بر‎ (bir), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *bir (*bīr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bir]

• Audio

  (file)

Numeral

bir

1. one

Derived terms

• bir-bir (“one by one”)
• bir-birini (“each other”)
• birbaşa (“directly”)
• bircə (“one, sole”)
• birdən, birdən-birə (“suddenly”)
• bir də (“and; once again, ever again”)
• bir daha (“once again, ever again”)
• birər

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from English beer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biɾ/

Noun

bir

1. beer

   Synonym: serbesa

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German bier, from Old High German bior, from Proto-West Germanic *beuʀ, from Proto-Germanic *beuzą (“beer”). Cognate with German Bier, English beer. Doublet of bira.

Noun

bir n

1. (Luserna) beer

References

• “bir” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bīr (“one”).

Numeral

Crimean Tatar cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : bir     Ordinal : birinci

bir

1. one

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[2], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Gagauz

Gagauz cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : bir     Ordinal : birinci

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bīr (“one”).

Numeral

bir

1. one

Iban

Etymology

Borrowed from English beer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bir/

Noun

bir

1. beer

Ili Turki

Ili Turki cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : bir

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bīr.

Numeral

bir

1. one

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch bier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɪr]
• Hyphenation: bir

Noun

bir (first-person possessive birku, second-person possessive birmu, third-person possessive birnya)

1. beer

Compounds

• bir pletok

 

Further reading

• “bir” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Javanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch bier (“beer”).

Noun

bir

1. beer

Karaim

Karaim cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : bir     Ordinal : birińči

Numeral

bir

1. one

References

1. dnathan.com

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English beer.

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /be(r)/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /bɪ(r)/
• Rhymes: -be(r), -e(r)

Noun

bir (Jawi spelling بير‎, informal 1st possessive birku, 2nd possessive birmu, 3rd possessive birnya)

1. beer

Synonyms

• arak

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic بِئْر‎ (biʔr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biːr/
• Rhymes: -iːr

Noun

bir m (plural bjar)

1. well

Middle English

Alternative forms

• bire, bur, byre

Etymology

From Old English byre (“strong wind, storm”).

Noun

bir (plural birs)

1. A strong or favorable wind.
   • c. 1540, Destruction of Troy:

     Were blouen to þe brode se in a bir swithe.

2. An armed assault or sally; a clash or encounter; a blow or stroke; an attack or affliction.
   • c. 1540, Destruction of Troy:

     A ᵹonge knight..suet to þe Duke With a bir on þe brest, þat backeward he ᵹode.

3. Violence; strength; fury.
   • c. 1400, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:

     With alle þe bur in his body he ber hit on lofte.

4. An onrush, swiftness.
   • 1425, Wycliffe Bible, Judges 5:22:

     Enemyes fledden with bire.

5. A charge on an account.
   • 1415, Account Rolls of the Abbey of Durham:

     Item in l bir de debito versus Rad'm Forster, 13 d.

Descendants

• English: birr

References

• “bir(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Middle High German

Alternative forms

• bire, pir

Etymology

From Old High German bira, from Vulgar Latin pira, plural of Latin pirum.

Noun

bir ? (plural birn)

1. pear

Descendants

• Alemannic German: Biire
• German: Birne
  • → Estonian: pirn
• Luxembourgish: Bir
• Vilamovian: biyn
• Yiddish: באַר‎ (bar)

Old Irish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *beru.

Alternative forms

• biur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʲir/

Noun

bir n (genitive bero or bera, nominative plural beura)

1. stake, spit, point; spear, spike
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 67^b11

     beura glosses sudes (“stake”)

Declension

Neuter u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	birN, biur	birL, biur	beuraL, bira
Vocative	birN, biur	birL, biur	beura
Accusative	birN, biur	birL, biur	beura
Genitive	beroH, beraH	beroN, beraN	beraeN
Dative	biurL, biur	beraib	beraib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• berach (“pointed”)

Descendants

• Irish: bior
• Scottish Gaelic: bior

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *beru, *beruro- (“spring, well”), said by Matasović to likely be related to *brutus (“fermentation, boiling heat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʲir/

Noun

bir (gender unknown, genitive unattested, nominative plural beru)

1. water, spring, well
   • c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 158

     bir .i. uisce ... biror ⁊ inbir ⁊ tobur

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʲirʲ/

Verb

·bir

1. second-person singular present indicative conjunct of beirid

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
bir	bir pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/	mbir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 bir (‘stake, spit’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 bir (‘water, spring’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian bér.

Noun

bir n (plural biruri)

1. tribute
2. tax

Declension

Declension of bir

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) bir	birul	(niște) bire	birele
genitive/dative	(unui) bir	birului	(unor) bire	birelor
vocative	birule		birelor

Salar

Salar cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : bir

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bīr.

Pronunciation

• (Jiezi, Gaizi, Xunhua) IPA^(key): [pəɹ]
• (Chahandusi, Hanbahe, Jiezi, Gaizi, Dazhuang, Mengda, Xunhua, Ili, Samuyuzi, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA^(key): [pir], [piɹ]
• (Chahandusi, Ejia, Daowei, Xunhua) IPA^(key): [per], [peɹ]

Numeral

bir

1. one

References

• 林 (Lin), 莲云 (Lianyun) (1985), “bir”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar], Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 14
• Tenishev, Edhem (1976), “bir”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 302, 444
• 马伟 (Ma Wei), 朝克 (Chao Ke) (2014), “bir”, in 撒拉语366条会话读本 [Salar 366 Conversation Reader], 1st edition, 社会科学文献出版社 (Social Science Literature Press), →ISBN, page 115

Sumerian

Romanization

bir

1. Romanization of 𒄵 (bir)

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English beer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiɾ/, [ˈbiɾ]

Noun

bir (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜇ᜔)

1. (colloquial) beer

   Synonym: (dated or formal) serbesa

Derived terms

• magbir

Turkish

Turkish numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: bir     Ordinal: birinci     Distributive: birer

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بر‎ (bir, “one”), from Proto-Turkic *bīr (“one”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰋𐰃𐰼‎ (b²ir² /bir/).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bir/, [biɾ̞̊]

• Audio

  (file)

Numeral

bir

1. one

Article

bir

1. a, an

   Synonym: (colloquial) bi

Pronoun

bir

1. some

Noun

bir (definite accusative biri, plural birler)

1. mono
2. single

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	bir
Definite accusative	biri
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bir	birler
Definite accusative	biri	birleri
Dative	bire	birlere
Locative	birde	birlerde
Ablative	birden	birlerden
Genitive	birin	birlerin
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular birim birlerim 2nd singular birin birlerin 3rd singular biri birleri 1st plural birimiz birlerimiz 2nd plural biriniz birleriniz 3rd plural birleri birleri Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular birimi birlerimi 2nd singular birini birlerini 3rd singular birini birlerini 1st plural birimizi birlerimizi 2nd plural birinizi birlerinizi 3rd plural birlerini birlerini Dative Singular Plural 1st singular birime birlerime 2nd singular birine birlerine 3rd singular birine birlerine 1st plural birimize birlerimize 2nd plural birinize birlerinize 3rd plural birlerine birlerine Locative Singular Plural 1st singular birimde birlerimde 2nd singular birinde birlerinde 3rd singular birinde birlerinde 1st plural birimizde birlerimizde 2nd plural birinizde birlerinizde 3rd plural birlerinde birlerinde Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular birimden birlerimden 2nd singular birinden birlerinden 3rd singular birinden birlerinden 1st plural birimizden birlerimizden 2nd plural birinizden birlerinizden 3rd plural birlerinden birlerinden Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular birimin birlerimin 2nd singular birinin birlerinin 3rd singular birinin birlerinin 1st plural birimizin birlerimizin 2nd plural birinizin birlerinizin 3rd plural birlerinin birlerinin

Further reading

• bir in Reverso (Turkish-English)

Turkmen

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bīr (“one”).

Numeral

Turkmen cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : bir     Ordinal : birinji

bir

1. one

Uzbek

Uzbek numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: bir     Ordinal: birinchi

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bīr (“one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪɾ/

Numeral

bir

1. one

Volapük

Alternative forms

• bil (an older term (now obsolete) for "beer", the word bil now means "bile" in reformed Volapük)

Etymology

Reformed in the 1920s from bil, to make it more like its etymons.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bir/, [biɾ]

Noun

bir (nominative plural birs)

1. beer

Declension

declension of bir

	singular	plural
nominative	bir	birs
genitive	bira	biras
dative	bire	bires
accusative	biri	biris
vocative 1	o bir!	o birs!
predicative 2	biru	birus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms

• biröp
• hodabir
• vuitabir