tire

See also: tiré, tirë, tíre, tìre, and тире

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪ̯ə(ɹ)/
• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪ̯ɚ/, [ˈtʰaɪ̯ɚ]
  • IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːɚ/
  • IPA^(key): /ˈtʌɪ̯ɚ/
• Rhymes: -aɪə(r)
• Homophone: tyre

Etymology 1

From Middle English tiren, tirien, teorien, from Old English tȳrian, tēorian (“to fail, cease, become weary, be tired, exhausted; tire, weary, exhaust”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *tiuzōną (“to cease”), which is possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dewH- (“to fail, be behind, lag”). Compare Ancient Greek δεύομαι (deúomai, “to lack”), Sanskrit दोष (dóṣa, “crime, fault, vice, deficiency”).

Alternative forms

• tyre (dialectal)

Verb

1. (intransitive) To become sleepy or weary.
   • 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     As Moldova understandably tired after a night of ball chasing, Everton left-back Baines scored his first international goal as his deflected free-kick totally wrong-footed Namasco.

2. (transitive) To make sleepy or weary.
3. (intransitive) To become bored or impatient (with).

   I tire of this book.

4. (transitive) To bore.

Synonyms

• (make sleepy or weary): See Thesaurus:tire
• (bore): See Thesaurus:cause boredom

Related terms

• tiresome

Translations

to become sleepy

• Arabic: تَعِبَ (taʕiba)
• Armenian: հոգնել (hy) (hognel)
• Belarusian: утамля́цца impf (utamljácca), утамі́цца pf (utamícca), стамля́цца impf (stamljácca), стамі́цца pf (stamícca)
• Catalan: cansar-se, fatigar-se
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勞累／劳累 (zh) (láolèi), 劳累 (zh) (láolèi), 累 (zh) (lèi), 疲倦 (zh) (píjuàn)

• Czech: unavit se
• Danish: blive trætt
• Esperanto: laciĝi
• Finnish: väsyä (fi)
• French: se fatiguer (fr)
• Galician: cansarse
• German: ermüden (de)
• Greek: κουράζομαι (el) (kourázomai)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hindi: थकाना (hi) (thakānā)
• Hungarian: elfárad (hu), fárad (hu)
• Ido: fatigeskar (io)
• Japanese: 疲れる (ja) (つかれる, tsukareru)
• Korean: 피곤하다 (ko) (pigonhada)
• Latin: dēfetiscor
• Northern Ohlone: 'ekjó̄qestek
• Norwegian: bli trett
• Polish: męczyć się (pl) impf, zmęczyć się (pl) pf
• Portuguese: cansar (pt), fatigar (pt)
• Quechua: sayk'uy, pisipay
• Russian: устава́ть (ru) impf (ustavátʹ), уста́ть (ru) pf (ustátʹ), утомля́ться (ru) impf (utomljátʹsja), утоми́ться (ru) pf (utomítʹsja)
• Spanish: cansar (es), cansarse
• Swedish: tröttna (sv)
• Thai: เหนื่อย (th) (nʉ̀ai)
• Ukrainian: уто́млюватися impf (utómljuvatysja), утомля́тися impf (utomljátysja), утоми́тися pf (utomýtysja)

to make sleepy

• Armenian: հոգնեցնել (hy) (hognecʻnel)
• Catalan: cansar (ca), fatigar (ca)
• Czech: unavit
• Danish: trætte (da)
• Dutch: vermoeien (nl)
• Esperanto: lacigi
• Faroese: lúgva
• Finnish: väsyttää (fi)
• French: fatiguer (fr)
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• German: ermüden (de)
• Greek: κουράζω (el) (kourázo)
• Hungarian: fáraszt (hu), kifáraszt (hu), elfáraszt (hu)
• Ido: fatigar (io)
• Italian: affaticare (it)
• Latin: fatīgō
• Portuguese: cansar (pt), fatigar (pt)
• Russian: утомля́ть (ru) impf (utomljátʹ), утоми́ть (ru) pf (utomítʹ)
• Spanish: cansar (es), fatigar (es)
• Swedish: trötta (sv)
• Ukrainian: сто́млювати impf (stómljuvaty), стоми́ти pf (stomýty)

to become bored

• Catalan: cansar-se, avorrir-se
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 厭／厌 (jim³), 厌 (jim³)

• Esperanto: laciĝi
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Finnish: pitkästyä, kyllästyä (fi), tympääntyä (fi)
• Galician: fartar, anoxar, aburrir (gl)
• Italian: stancarsi (it)
• Russian: надоеда́ть (ru) impf (nadojedátʹ), надое́сть (ru) pf (nadojéstʹ) (the person bored is the object, e.g. "мне надое́ло" - "I got bored" (by smth./smb,)
• Spanish: cansarse, aburrirse, hartarse
• Ukrainian: набрида́ти impf (nabrydáty), набри́днути pf (nabrýdnuty)

to bore

• Esperanto: lacigi
• Finnish: pitkästyttää, kyllästyttää, tympäännyttää
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Galician: aburrir (gl), fartar
• Italian: stancare (it)
• Russian: надоеда́ть (ru) impf (nadojedátʹ), надое́сть (ru) pf (nadojéstʹ)
• Ukrainian: набрида́ти impf (nabrydáty), набри́днути pf (nabrýdnuty)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} zich vermoeien, ^{(please verify)} moe worden
• French: ^{(please verify)} (se) fatiguer
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• Ido: ^{(please verify)} fatigar (io)
• Norman: ^{(please verify)} lâsser (Jersey)

Etymology 2

From Middle English tire (“equipment”) aphetic form of attire.

Alternative forms

• (rubber covering on a wheel): tyre

Noun

tire (plural tires)

1. (obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.
   • (Can we date this quote by Philips and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     the tire of war

2. (obsolete) Dress, clothes, attire.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:

     Ne spared they to strip her naked all. / Then when they had despoild her tire and call, / Such as she was, their eyes might her behold.

   • Template:RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncly, New York Review of Books 2001, p.66:

     men like apes follow the fashions in tires, gestures, actions: if the king laugh, all laugh […].

3. A covering for the head; a headdress.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 10, p. 144,^[2]

     And on her head she wore a tyre of gold,

4. (American spelling) Metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
5. (American spelling, Canadian spelling) The rubber covering on a wheel; a tyre.
6. A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.

Usage notes

• Tire is one of the few words where Canadian usage prefers the US spelling over the British spelling.

Derived terms

• pump someone's tires
• spare tire
• tire fire
• tire yard

 

Translations

rubber covering on a wheel — see tyre

Verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To dress or adorn.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Bible, 2 Kings ix. 30

     [Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head.

Related terms

• tiring-house

Translations

to dress or adorn

• Catalan: adornar (ca), guarnir (ca)
• Portuguese: adornar (pt), enfeitar (pt)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: украша́ть (ru) impf (ukrašátʹ), укра́сить (ru) pf (ukrásitʹ)

Etymology 3

From Middle English tire, from Old French tirer (“to draw or pull”), akin to English tear (“to rend”).

Alternative forms

• tyre

Verb

1. (obsolete) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
   • (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, / Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone.

   • (Can we date this quote by Ben Jonson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Ye dregs of baseness, vultures among men, / That tire upon the hearts of generous spirits.

2. (obsolete) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
   • (Can we date this quote by Chapman and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Thus made she her remove, / And left wrath tiring on her son.

   • (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Upon that were my thoughts tiring.

Etymology 4

Noun

tire (plural tires)

1. A tier, row, or rank.
   • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     In posture to displode their second tire / Of thunder.

Further reading

• “tire”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “tire”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• REIT, Teri, iter, iter., reit, rite, tier, trie

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Asturian

Verb

(deprecated template usage) tire

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of tirar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of tirar

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Azerbaijani

Other scripts

Cyrillic		тире
Abjad

Etymology

From Russian тире (tire), ultimately from French tiret.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tiˈre]
• Hyphenation: ti‧re

Noun

tire (definite accusative tireni, plural tirelər)

1. dash (punctuation mark)

Declension

Declension of tire

	singular	plural
nominative	tire	tirelər
definite accusative	tireni	tireləri
dative	tireyə	tirelərə
locative	tiredə	tirelərdə
ablative	tiredən	tirelərdən
definite genitive	tirenin	tirelərin

Possessive forms of tire

	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tirem	tirelərim
sənin (“your”)	tiren	tirelərin
onun (“his/her/its”)	tiresi	tireləri
bizim (“our”)	tiremiz	tirelərimiz
sizin (“your”)	tireniz	tireləriniz
onların (“their”)	tiresi or tireləri	tireləri
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tiremi	tirelərimi
sənin (“your”)	tireni	tirelərini
onun (“his/her/its”)	tiresini	tirelərini
bizim (“our”)	tiremizi	tirelərimizi
sizin (“your”)	tirenizi	tirelərinizi
onların (“their”)	tiresini or tirelərini	tirelərini
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tiremə	tirelərimə
sənin (“your”)	tirenə	tirelərinə
onun (“his/her/its”)	tiresinə	tirelərinə
bizim (“our”)	tiremizə	tirelərimizə
sizin (“your”)	tirenizə	tirelərinizə
onların (“their”)	tiresinə or tirelərinə	tirelərinə
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tiremdə	tirelərimdə
sənin (“your”)	tirendə	tirelərində
onun (“his/her/its”)	tiresində	tirelərində
bizim (“our”)	tiremizdə	tirelərimizdə
sizin (“your”)	tirenizdə	tirelərinizdə
onların (“their”)	tiresində or tirelərində	tirelərində
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tiremdən	tirelərimdən
sənin (“your”)	tirendən	tirelərindən
onun (“his/her/its”)	tiresindən	tirelərindən
bizim (“our”)	tiremizdən	tirelərimizdən
sizin (“your”)	tirenizdən	tirelərinizdən
onların (“their”)	tiresindən or tirelərindən	tirelərindən
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tiremin	tirelərimin
sənin (“your”)	tirenin	tirelərinin
onun (“his/her/its”)	tiresinin	tirelərinin
bizim (“our”)	tiremizin	tirelərimizin
sizin (“your”)	tirenizin	tirelərinizin
onların (“their”)	tiresinin or tirelərinin	tirelərinin

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French

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiʁ/

Verb

tire

1. first-person singular present indicative of tirer
2. third-person singular present indicative of tirer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of tirer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of tirer
5. second-person singular imperative of tirer

Etymology 2

From English.

Noun

tire m (plural tires)

1. (Canada, Louisiana) tire, tyre (of a car, truck, etc)

Anagrams

• trie, trié

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Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French tirer (“shoot”).

Verb

tire

1. To shoot (hit with a bullet or arrow)

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Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from English tray.

Noun

tìr̃ê m (possessed form tìr̃ên)

1. tray

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Portuguese

Verb

tire

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of tirar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of tirar
3. first-person singular imperative of tirar
4. third-person singular imperative of tirar

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Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtəiər/

Verb

tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tirin, simple past tiret, past participle tiret)

1. to tire

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiɾe/ [ˈt̪i.ɾe]

Verb

tire

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of tirar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of tirar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of tirar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of tirar.

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Turkish

Noun

tire (definite accusative tireyi, plural tireler)

1. "-" Hyphen-minus symbol, used as a hyphen, minus sign, and a dash.

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	tire
Definite accusative	tireyi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tire	tireler
Definite accusative	tireyi	tireleri
Dative	tireye	tirelere
Locative	tirede	tirelerde
Ablative	tireden	tirelerden
Genitive	tirenin	tirelerin