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

• 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

Translations

wheel covering

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

  Hijazi Arabic: كَفَر‏‎ m (kafar)

• Armenian: անվադող (hy) (anvadoł)
• Asturian: neumáticu m
• Azeri: şin
• Belarusian: шы́на f (šýna), аўташы́на f (aŭtašýna)
• Bengali: টায়রা (ţayra)
• Bulgarian: гу́ма f (gúma), автомоби́лна гу́ма f (avtomobílna gúma)
• Burmese: တာယာ (my) (taya)
• Catalan: neumàtic m, pneumàtic m
• 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)

• 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)
• Icelandic: dekk (is) n
• Ido: bandajo (io)
• Indonesian: ban (id)
• Italian: gomma (it) m, pneumatico (it) m
• Japanese: タイヤ (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
• 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
• 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)
• Tajik: шина (šina)
• Taos: ùlit’áwaną
• Thai: ยางรถยนต์ (yaang rót yon), ยางรถ (yaang rót)
• Turkish: lastik (tr)
• Turkmen: şin, pokryşka
• Ukrainian: ши́на f (šýna), автоши́на f (avtošýna)
• Urdu: ٹائر‏‎ (ṭāyar)
• Uzbek: shina (uz)
• Vietnamese: vỏ (vi), lốp (vi)
• Yiddish: רייף‏‎ m, f (reyf)

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

From Tamil.

Noun

tyre (uncountable)

1. (India) curdled milk

Etymology 3

Noun

tyre (uncountable) (obsolete)

1. attire

References

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

Anagrams

• Trey, Tyer, trey, tyer

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Albanian

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. plural indefinite of tyr