tyre

See also: Tyre

English

Etymology 1

The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that the word derives from attire, while other sources suggest a connection with the verb to tie. The spelling tyre is used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand after being revived in the 19th century. Both tyre and tire were used in the 15th and 16th centuries. The United States did not adopt the revival of tyre, and tire is the only spelling currently used there and in Canada.

An antique tyre

Alternative forms

• (US, Canada) tire

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /taɪə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -aɪə(r)
• Homophone: tire

Noun

tyre (plural tyres)

1. (British spelling, Irish, South African, Australian and NZ spelling) The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid.

Derived terms

• pneumatic tyre
• spare tyre
• tyre barrier
• tyre lever

Translations

wheel covering

• Afrikaans: tipe
• Albanian: gomë (sq) f
• Arabic: إِطَار‎ m (ʾiṭār)

  Hijazi Arabic: كَفَر‎ m (kafar)

  Egyptian Arabic: كاوِتْشْ‎ m (kawetš)

• Armenian: անվադող (hy) (anvadoł)
• Asturian: neumáticu m
• Azerbaijani: şin
• Basque: pneumatiko (eu)
• Belarusian: шы́на f (šýna), аўташы́на f (aŭtašýna)
• Bengali: টায়রা (ṭayra)
• Bulgarian: гу́ма f (gúma), автомоби́лна гу́ма f (avtomobílna gúma)
• Burmese: တာယာ (my) (taya)
• Catalan: neumàtic (ca) m, pneumàtic m
• Chamorro: taia'
• Cherokee: ᎠᏜᎠᏢᏗ (adlaatlvdi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 輪軚, 轮軚 (leon⁴ taai¹), 輪胎, 轮胎 (leon⁴ toi¹)

  Mandarin: 輪胎 (zh), 轮胎 (zh) (lúntāi), 車胎 (zh), 车胎 (zh) (chētāi)

• Cornish: bonden f
• Czech: pneumatika (cs) f
• Danish: dæk (da)
• Dutch: band (nl) m
• Esperanto: pneŭo
• Estonian: rehv (et)
• Faroese: dekk n
• Finnish: rengas (fi), (slang) nakki (fi)
• French: pneu (fr) m, pneumatique (fr) m
• Galician: pneumático m
• Georgian: საბურავი (saburavi)
• German: Reifen (de) m
• Greek: λάστιχο (el) n (lásticho), ελαστικό (el) n (elastikó), επίσωτρο n (epísotro)
• Hebrew: צְמִיג‎ m (tzamíg)
• Hindi: पहिया (hi) (pahiyā), टायर (ṭāyar)
• Hungarian: gumi (hu), autógumi (hu) (on cars), bicikligumi, kerékpárgumi (on bycicles)
• Hunsrik: Pnëu n
• Icelandic: dekk (is) n
• Ido: bandajo (io)
• Indonesian: ban (id)
• Irish: aerbhonn m (pneumatic)
• Italian: gomma (it) m, pneumatico (it) m
• Japanese: タイヤ (ja) (taiya)
• Kazakh: шина (şïna)
• Khmer: កៅស៊ូ (km) (kav suu), កង់ (km) (kɑŋ) (colloquial)
• Korean: 타이어 (ko) (taieo)
• Kyrgyz: шина (ky) (şina)
• Ladin: montl m

• Lao: ຢາງລົດ (yāng lot)
• Latvian: riepa f
• Lithuanian: padanga m
• Luxembourgish: Pneu m
• Macedonian: гу́ма f (gúma), автомоби́лска гу́ма f (avtomobílska gúma)
• Malay: tayar
• Manx: crou f
• Mongolian: дугуй (mn) (duguj)
• Navajo: akeeʼ
• Norman: tyeur m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dekk n, bilgummi m

  Nynorsk: dekk n, bilgummi m

• Persian: لاستیک‎ (fa) (lâstik)
• Polish: opona (pl) f, guma (pl) f (colloquial)
• Portuguese: pneu (pt) m
• Romanian: pneu (ro) n, cauciuc (ro) n
• Russian: автомоби́льная ши́на f (avtomobílʹnaja šína), ши́на (ru) f (šína), покры́шка (ru) f (pokrýška), автоши́на (ru) f (avtošína)
• Scottish Gaelic: taidhr f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гу̏ма f

  Roman: gȕma (sh) f

• Sinhalese: ටයර් (ṭayar)
• Slovak: pneumatika f
• Slovene: pnevmatika f
• Spanish: neumático (es) m (especially Chile and Spain - formal usage in other countries), caucho (es) m (Venezuela), cubierta (es) f (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay), goma (es) f (Caribbean Islands), llanta (es) f (Latin America), rueda (es) f (Spain)
• Swahili: gurudumu (sw), tairi (sw)
• Swedish: däck (sv)
• Tagalog: gulong, goma
• Tajik: шина (šina)
• Taos: ùlit’áwaną
• Thai: ยางรถยนต์ (yaang rót yon), ยางรถ (yaang rót)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: lastik (tr)
• Turkmen: şin, pokryşka
• Tuvan: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: ши́на (uk) f (šýna), автоши́на f (avtošýna)
• Urdu: ٹائر‎ (ṭāyar)
• Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
• Uzbek: shina (uz)
• Vietnamese: vỏ (vi), lốp (vi)
• Welsh: teiar m
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: רייף‎ m or f (reyf)
• Zhuang: daici

Verb

tyre (third-person singular simple present tyres, present participle tyring, simple past and past participle tyred)

1. (transitive) To fit tyres to (a vehicle).
   • 1929, The Listener (issues 41-50, page 552)

     The circular iron platform over there is used in the task of tyring the wheels, a warm job, too, by the way.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Tamil தயிர் (tayir), itself from Sanskrit दधि (dádhi). Doublet of dahi.

Noun

tyre (uncountable)

1. (India) Curdled milk.
   • 1809, The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, […] ‎^[1], page 954:

     The boiled milk, that the family has not used, is allowed to cool in the same vessel; and a little of the former days tyre, or curdled milk, is added to promote its coagulation, and the acid fermentation. Next morning it has become tyre, or coagulated acid milk.

Etymology 3

Noun

tyre (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Attire.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

Verb

tyre (third-person singular simple present tyres, present participle tyring, simple past and past participle tyred)

1. (obsolete) To adorn.

References

• tyre in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Trey, Tyer, trey, tyer

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Albanian

Alternative forms

• tyne [tynɛ] (Gheg)

Adjective

i tyre m (feminine e tyre, m plural e tyre, f plural e tyre)

1. their

Declension

declension of i tyre

	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine	masculine	feminine
nominative	i tyre	e tyre	e tyre	e tyre
accusative	e tyre	e tyre	e tyre	e tyre
genitive/dative/ablative	të tyre	së tyre	të tyre	të tyre

See also

Albanian possessive adjectives and pronouns

		adjectives			pronouns
		singular	plural		singular	plural
1st person		im	ynë		imi	yni
2nd person		yt	juaj		yti	juaji
3rd person	m	i tij	i tyre		i tiji	i tyri
	f	i saj			i saji
3rd person reflexive		i vet			i veti

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Danish

Noun

tyre c

1. indefinite plural of tyr

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tyre m or n (definite singular tyren or tyret, indefinite plural tyrar or tyre, definite plural tyrane or tyra)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by tyri

Anagrams

• ryte, yret, ytre