پیر

پیر • (pír)

1. old

پیر (pe:r)

1. father

From Middle Persian [Term?] (pyl /pīr/, “old, aged, ancient”).

پیر • (pir) (comparative پیرتَر‎ (pir-tar), superlative پیرتَرین‎ (pir-tarin))

1. old, aged (of living things; see also قدیمی‎ (qadimi) for non-living things)

   ‏آموزگارِ پیر‎ ― âmuzgâr-e pir ― aged teacher

   ‏درختِ پیر‎ ― deraxt-e pir ― old tree

   Synonyms: (more respectful) مُسِن‎ (mosen, “elderly”), (more formal) سال‌خورده‎ (sâl-xorde, “senior”), کُهَن‌سال‎ (kohan-sâl, “very old, centenarian”)

When used with the words مرد‎ (mard, “man”) and زن‎ (zan, “woman”), پیر (pir) usually precedes them and forms compounds:

• پیرمرد‎ (pir-(e)-mard, “old man”)
• پیرزن‎ (pir-(e)-zan, “old woman”)

which are more common than مردِ پیر (mard-e pir) and زنِ پیر (zan-e pir)

• پیری‎ (piri)
• پیرزن‎ (pir-e-zan, pir-zan)
• پیرمرد‎ (pir-e-mard, pir-mard)
• گنده‌پیر‎ (gande-pir)

پیر • (pir)

1. (Sufism) Pir, Sheikh

• → Bengali: পীর (pīr)

From پدر‎ (pedar).

• پدر‎ (pedar)

• IPA^(key): /piˈjæɾ/

پیر • (piyar)

1. (dialectal, Harat) father

From Sanskrit *पदर (padara), from पद (pada, “foot”).

پَیر • (pair) m (Hindi spelling पैर)

1. foot
2. footprint

Borrowed from Persian پیر‎ (pir, “old”).

پِیر • (pīr) m (Hindi spelling पीर)

1. old man
2. (Sufism) saint, mystic
3. Monday

• (days of the week) ہفتے کے دن‎ (hafte ke din)‎; اتوار‎ (itvār)‎, پیر (pīr)‎, منگل‎‎ (mangal)‎, بدھ‎ (budh)‎, جمعرات‎ (jumi'rāt)‎, جمعہ‎ (jum'a)‎, ہفتہ‎ (hafta)‎ ^{(Category: ur:Days of the week)}

پیر (per)

1. jinn, ghost