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, and most current and former Commonwealth nations 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.

An antique tyre

Alternative forms

• (US) tire

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /taɪə(ɹ)/

• Audio (UK)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɪə(r)
• Homophone: tire

Noun

tyre (plural tyres) (British spelling, Irish, most current and former Commonwealth nations spelling)

1. The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid.
2. The metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railway vehicle.
   • 1960 April, “The braking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 237:

     It is also curious that whereas brake-blocks made of certain compositions (other than cast iron) offer improved coefficients of friction, their use can reduce adhesion, and thereby increase the liability to skid (doubtless by tending to polish the tyres) by as much as 20 per cent.

Derived terms

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

Descendants

• → Chamorro: taia'
• → Japanese: タイヤ (taiya)
• → Korean: 타이어 (taieo)
• → Malay: tayar
• → Welsh: teiar

Translations

wheel covering

• Afrikaans: tipe
• Albanian: gomë (sq) f
• Apache:

  Western Apache: bigan, bikee’

• Arabic: إِطَار‎ m (ʾiṭār)

  Hijazi Arabic: كفر‎ m (kafar)

  Egyptian Arabic: كاوتش‎ m (kawetš)

• Armenian: անվադող (hy) (anvadoł)
• Asturian: neumáticu m
• Azerbaijani: şin
• Basque: pneumatiko (eu)
• Belarusian: шы́на f (šýna), аўташы́на f (aŭtašýna)
• Bengali: টায়রা (ṭaẏra)
• 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)

• Chuvash: шын (šyn)
• Cornish: bonden f
• Czech: pneumatika (cs) f
• Danish: dæk (da)
• Dutch: band (nl) m
• Esperanto: pneŭo
• Estonian: rehv (et)
• Farefare: kɔba
• 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 (el) 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, hjólbarði m
• 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
• Lingala: pinɛ́
• Lithuanian: padanga m
• Luxembourgish: Pneu m
• Macedonian: гу́ма f (gúma), автомоби́лска гу́ма f (avtomobílska gúma)
• Malay: tayar
• Malayalam: ടയർ (ml) (ṭayar)
• Manx: crou f
• Mongolian: дугуй (mn) (dugui)
• Navajo: akeeʼ
• Norman: tyeur m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dekk n, bilgummi m

  Nynorsk: dekk n, bilgummi m

• Occitan: pneumatic (oc)
• Persian: لاستیک‎ (fa) (lâstik)
• Plautdietsch: Reif f
• 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

• Sindhi: ٽائر‎
• 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)
• Tamil: வட்டகை (ta) (vaṭṭakai)
• 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
• West Frisian: luchtbân
• 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.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 2, canto 1:

     And feeble nature cloth'd with fleshly tyre

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, trye, 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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtˢyːɐ]

Etymology 1

Derived from the noun tyr (“bull”).

Verb

tyre (imperative tyr, infinitive at tyre, present tense tyrer, past tense tyrede, perfect tense har tyret)

1. grind away at
2. put down
3. kick violently

Inflection

Conjugation of tyre

	Active	Passive
Infinitive	tyre	tyres
Present tense	tyrer	tyres
Past tense	tyrede	tyredes
Imperative	tyr	-
Participle
Present	tyrende
Past	tyret
Gerund	tyren

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

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