tir

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tir"

Translingual

Symbol

tir

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Tigrinya.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tigrinya terms

Chungli Ao

Etymology

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Cardinal: tir

From ti (“eight”) +‎ -er (forms multiples of 10).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiɾ˥˩/, [tiɾ˥˩]

Numeral

tir

1. eighty

Further reading

• Bruhn, Daniel Wayne (2014), A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Central Naga‎^[2], Berkeley: University of California, page 92

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *tir, from Proto-Celtic *tīros, from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”), i.e. "dry land" as opposed to lake or sea.

Noun

tir m (plural tirioù)

1. land

Mutation

Mutation of tir

	unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard
singular	tir	dir	zir	unchanged
plural	tirioù	dirioù	zirioù	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Breton.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Catalan

Etymology

Deverbal from tirar (“to shoot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtir]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

tir m (plural tirs)

1. shot
2. shooting (sport)

Derived terms

• tir amb arc
• tir olímpic

Cornish

Etymology

From Old Cornish tir, from Proto-Brythonic *tir, from Proto-Celtic *tīros, from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”), i.e. "dry land" as opposed to lake or sea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːr/

• Audio:

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Noun

tir m (plural tiryow)

1. land, earth

Mutation

Mutation of tir

radical	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed
tir	dir	thir	unchanged	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

French

Etymology

Deverbal from tirer (“to shoot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiʁ/

• Audio; “un tir”:

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• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

tir m (plural tirs)

1. shot, shooting (of a weapon) [from 1660]

   tir précis ― precise shot

   tir au canon ― cannon firing

   tir à l'arc ― archery

2. shooting (sport)
3. shooting range [from 1826]
   • 1854, Gérard de Nerval, “Angélique”, in Les Filles du feu [The Daughters of Fire]:

     Un tir a été établi pour les archers dans un des fossés qui se rapprochent de la ville.

     A range was set up for the archers in one of the ditches that approach the city.

4. blasting (in mines)

Derived terms

• banquette de tir
• champ de tir
• corriger le tir
• fenêtre de tir
• rectifier le tir
• stand de tir
• tir à l'arc
• tir ami
• tir de barrage
• tir de semonce
• tir de sommation
• tir de suppression
• tir parthe
• tirer
• tirs au but

Descendants

• → Belarusian: цір (cir)
• → Russian: тир (tir)
• → Ukrainian: тир (tyr)

Further reading

• “tir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• rit, rît
• tri

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪr/
• Rhymes: -tir

Etymology 1

From Malay tir; ultimately from Tamil தேர் (tēr).

Noun

tir (plural tir-tir)

1. (chess) rook; castle

   Synonym: benteng

2. (chess) bishop

Alternative forms

• tar
• ter

Etymology 2

Noun

tir (plural tir-tir)

1. alternative spelling of tar (“tar”)

Further reading

• “tir”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Malay

Etymology

From Tamil தேர் (tēr).

Pronunciation

• (schwa-variety) IPA^(key): [te(r)]
  • Rhymes: -e(r)
• (Baku) IPA^(key): [tir]
  • Rhymes: -ir
• Hyphenation: tir

Noun

tir (Jawi spelling تير, plural tir-tir or tir²)

1. (chess) The rook or castle piece in chess.

   Synonym: benteng

Descendants

• > Indonesian: tir (inherited)

Further reading

• "tir" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Old Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tīros.

Noun

tir

1. earth, land
   • c. 1200, Latin-Old Cornish Glossary in British Library MS Cotton Vespasian A XIV, folio 7 recto:

     Tellus. tir.

     Earth. — earth.

Descendants

• Cornish: tir

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tīraz, from Proto-Indo-European *dey-.

Cognate with Old Norse tírr (“glory, honour”) and Old Saxon tīr (“glory, renown”). Compare Proto-Germanic *tiari- (“neat, splendid”), whence Old High German ziari (“neat, beautiful, splendid”), Old High German zierī (German Zier (“splendour, beauty”)), German zieren (“to decorate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːr/
• Rhymes: -iːr

Noun

tīr m

1. fame; glory; honour

Declension

Strong a-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	tīr	tīras
accusative	tīr	tīras
genitive	tīres	tīra
dative	tīre	tīrum

Derived terms

• tīrēadīg
• tīrfæst
• tīrfruma
• tīrlēas
• tīrmeahtiġ

Descendants

• Middle English: tir

Old Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *tir, from Proto-Celtic *tīros, from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”), i.e. “dry land” as opposed to lake or sea. Cognates include Latin terra, German dürr, English thirst.

Noun

tir m

1. land

Descendants

• Middle Welsh: tir
  • Welsh: tir

Polish

Alternative forms

• TIR

Etymology

From blue-and-white plates with the French initialism TIR (“Transports Internationaux Routiers”), which are put on vehicles matching the requirements of the TIR Convention.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtir/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ir
• Syllabification: tir

Noun

tir m animal (related adjective tirowy)

1. articulated lorry

Declension

Declension of tir

	singular	plural
nominative	tir	tiry
genitive	tira	tirów
dative	tirowi	tirom
accusative	tira	tiry
instrumental	tirem	tirami
locative	tirze	tirach
vocative	tirze	tiry

Derived terms

nouns

• tirowiec
• tirówka

Further reading

• tir in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tir in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Rohingya

Alternative forms

• 𐴃𐴞𐴌 (tir) — Hanifi Rohingya script

Etymology

From Bengali তীর (tir), from Persian تیر (tir).

Noun

tir (Hanifi spelling 𐴃𐴞𐴌)

1. arrow

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tir.

Noun

tir n (uncountable)

1. shooting (of a weapon)

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	tir	tirul
genitive-dative	tir	tirului
vocative	tirule

Somali

Verb

tir (causative tiri, passive voice tiran, middle voice tiro)

1. (transitive) cancel, eliminate

Inflection

Conjugation of tir

Infinitive		tiri
present participle		tirid
		simple			independent
		present	past	future	past
singular
	1st	tiraa	tiray	tiri doonaa	tiray
	2nd	tirtaa	tirtay	tiri doontaa	tirtay
	3rd	tiraa	tiray	tiri doonaa	tir
		tirtaa	tirtay	tiri doontaa	tirtay
plural
	1st	tirnaa	tirnay	tiri doonnaa	tirnay
	2nd	tirtaan	tirteen	tiri doontaan	tirte
	3rd	tiraan	tireen	tiri doonaan	tire

References

• “tir”, in Qaamuuska Af-Soomaaliga, 2012

Sumerian

Romanization

tir

1. romanization of 𒌁 (tir)

Tatar

Noun

tir

1. sweat

Waigali

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiɾ/

Adjective

tir (Nisheigram)

1. true

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh tir, from Old Welsh tir, from Proto-Brythonic *tir, from Proto-Celtic *tīros, from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”), i.e. "dry land" as opposed to lake or sea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːr/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -iːr

Noun

tir m (plural tiroedd)

1. land

Derived terms

• abatir (“abbey land”)
• ardir (“arable land, tillage”)
• blaendir (“foreground”)
• cefndir (“background”)
• coetir (“woodland”)
• corstir (“marshland”)
• crastir (“parched land”)
• crindir (“parched land”)
• culdir (“isthmus”)
• cyfandir (“continent”)
• cyffindir (“frontier, ecotone”)
• cytir (“common”)
• diffeithdir (“wasteland”)
• ffendir (“fenland”)
• Ffindir (“Finland”)
• glastir (“pasture land, sward”)
• gwastatir (“level, plain”)
• gwlyptir (“wetland”)
• Iseldiroedd (“Netherlands”)
• llwyfandir (“plateau”)
• maestir (“open country”)
• mawndir (“peatland”)
• milltir (“mile”)
• mynydd-dir (“mountain land, hill country”)
• peithdir (“pampa”)
• pentir (“headland”)
• rhandir (“division, allotment”)
• rhostir (“moorland, heathland”)
• Swistir (“Switzerland”)
• tir agored (“champion land”)
• tir âr (“ploughland, arable land”)
• tir ar rent (“fief”)
• tir breiniol (“franchise”)
• tir bwrdais (“burgage”)
• tir caeedig (“enclosure, enclosed land”)
• tir comin (“common land”)
• tir diffaith (“wasteland”)
• tir eglwys (“glebe”)
• tir esgob (“bishopland”)
• tir ffermio (“farmland”)
• tir glas (“greenfield”)
• tir llan (“glebe”)
• tir mawr (“mainland”)
• tir neb (“no-man's land”)
• tir oer (“tierra fria”)
• tir poeth (“tierra caliente”)
• tir pori (“pasture, grazing land”)
• tir prysg (“scrubland”)
• tir rhydd-ddaliol (“freehold land”)
• tir rhyngafonol (“interfluve”)
• tir rhywiog (“tilth”)
• tir tro (“tillage”)
• tir tymherus (“tierra templada”)
• tir y goron (“crown land”)
• tir ymylol (“marginal land”)
• tir ysgol (“school ground”)
• tirfeddiannol (“landowning”)
• tirio (“to land, to disembark”)
• tiriol (“terreous”)
• turio (“to burrow”)
• ucheldir (“highland”)
• y Canoldir (“the Mediterranean”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of tir

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tir	dir	nhir	thir

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “tir”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies