bir

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiɾ/
• Hyphenation: bir

bír

1. last night

bír m 

1. last night

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “bir”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2004) Parlons Afar: Langue et Culture, L'Hammartan, →ISBN, page 37
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

From Proto-Albanian *bira, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérus (compare Old English byre, Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂 (baur, “son”)).[1] Phonetically and semantically close to Messapic *bilia (“daughter”) and *biles (“son”), Matzinger reconstructs two different roots: Proto-Albanian *bʰi-ro and Proto-Messapic *bʰi-lo, both from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH (“to grow, become”).

• IPA^(key): /biɾ/

bir m (indefinite plural bij, definite singular biri, definite plural bijtë)

1. son

From Old Anatolian Turkish بر‎ (bir), ultimately from Proto-Turkic *bir (*bīr).[1]

• IPA^(key): [bir]

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bir

1. one

• bir-bir (“one by one”)
• bir-birini (“each other”)
• birbaşa (“directly”)
• bircə (“one, sole”)
• birdən, birdən-birə (“suddenly”)
• bir də (“and; once again, ever again”)
• bir daha (“once again, ever again”)
• birər

Borrowed from English beer.

• IPA^(key): /biɾ/

bir

1. beer

   Synonym: serbesa

From Middle High German bier, from Old High German bior, from Proto-West Germanic *beuʀ, from Proto-Germanic *beuzą (“beer”). Cognate with German Bier, English beer. Doublet of bira.

bir n

1. (Luserna) beer

• “bir” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

From Proto-Turkic *bīr (“one”).

bir

1. one

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

From Proto-Turkic *bīr (“one”).

bir

1. one

Borrowed from English beer.

• IPA^(key): /bir/

bir

1. beer

From Proto-Turkic *bīr.

bir

1. one

From Dutch bier.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɪr]
• Hyphenation: bir

bir (first-person possessive birku, second-person possessive birmu, third-person possessive birnya)

1. beer

• “bir” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Dutch bier (“beer”).

bir

1. beer

bir

1. one

1. dnathan.com

Borrowed from English beer.

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /be(r)/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /bɪ(r)/
• Rhymes: -be(r), -e(r)

bir (Jawi spelling بير‎, informal 1st possessive birku, 2nd possessive birmu, 3rd possessive birnya)

1. beer

• arak

From Arabic بِئْر‎ (biʔr).

• IPA^(key): /biːr/
• Rhymes: -iːr

bir m (plural bjar)

1. well

• bire, bur, byre

From Old English byre (“strong wind, storm”).

bir (plural birs)

1. A strong or favorable wind.
   • c. 1540, Destruction of Troy:

     Were blouen to þe brode se in a bir swithe.

2. An armed assault or sally; a clash or encounter; a blow or stroke; an attack or affliction.
   • c. 1540, Destruction of Troy:

     A ᵹonge knight..suet to þe Duke With a bir on þe brest, þat backeward he ᵹode.

3. Violence; strength; fury.
   • c. 1400, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:

     With alle þe bur in his body he ber hit on lofte.

4. An onrush, swiftness.
   • 1425, Wycliffe Bible, Judges 5:22:

     Enemyes fledden with bire.

5. A charge on an account.
   • 1415, Account Rolls of the Abbey of Durham:

     Item in l bir de debito versus Rad'm Forster, 13 d.

• English: birr

• “bir(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• bire, pir

From Old High German bira, from Vulgar Latin pira, plural of Latin pirum.

bir ? (plural birn)

1. pear

• Alemannic German: Biire
• German: Birne
  • → Estonian: pirn
• Luxembourgish: Bir
• Vilamovian: biyn
• Yiddish: באַר‎ (bar)

From Proto-Celtic *beru.

• biur

• IPA^(key): /bʲir/

bir n (genitive bero or bera, nominative plural beura)

1. stake, spit, point; spear, spike
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 67^b11

     beura glosses sudes (“stake”)

• berach (“pointed”)

• Irish: bior
• Scottish Gaelic: bior

From Proto-Celtic *beru, *beruro- (“spring, well”), said by Matasović to likely be related to *brutus (“fermentation, boiling heat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-.[1]

• IPA^(key): /bʲir/

bir (gender unknown, genitive unattested, nominative plural beru)

1. water, spring, well
   • c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 158

     bir .i. uisce ... biror ⁊ inbir ⁊ tobur

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /bʲirʲ/

·bir

1. second-person singular present indicative conjunct of beirid

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 bir (‘stake, spit’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 bir (‘water, spring’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Hungarian bér.

bir n (plural biruri)

1. tribute
2. tax

From Proto-Turkic *bīr.

• (Jiezi, Gaizi, Xunhua) IPA^(key): [pəɹ]
• (Chahandusi, Hanbahe, Jiezi, Gaizi, Dazhuang, Mengda, Xunhua, Ili, Samuyuzi, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA^(key): [pir], [piɹ]
• (Chahandusi, Ejia, Daowei, Xunhua) IPA^(key): [per], [peɹ]

bir

1. one

• 林 (Lin), 莲云 (Lianyun) (1985), “bir”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar], Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 14
• Tenishev, Edhem (1976), “bir”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 302, 444
• 马伟 (Ma Wei), 朝克 (Chao Ke) (2014), “bir”, in 撒拉语366条会话读本 [Salar 366 Conversation Reader], 1st edition, 社会科学文献出版社 (Social Science Literature Press), →ISBN, page 115

bir

1. Romanization of 𒄵 (bir)

Borrowed from English beer.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiɾ/, [ˈbiɾ]

bir (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜇ᜔)

1. (colloquial) beer

   Synonym: (dated or formal) serbesa

• magbir

From Ottoman Turkish بر‎ (bir, “one”), from Proto-Turkic *bīr (“one”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰋𐰃𐰼‎ (b²ir² /bir/).

• IPA^(key): /bir/, [biɾ̞̊]

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bir

1. one

bir

1. a, an

   Synonym: (colloquial) bi

bir

1. some

bir (definite accusative biri, plural birler)

1. mono
2. single

• bir in Reverso (Turkish-English)

From Proto-Turkic *bīr (“one”).

bir

1. one

From Proto-Turkic *bīr (“one”).

bir

1. one

• bil (an older term (now obsolete) for "beer", the word bil now means "bile" in reformed Volapük)

Reformed in the 1920s from bil, to make it more like its etymons.

• IPA^(key): /bir/, [biɾ]

bir (nominative plural birs)

1. beer

• biröp
• hodabir
• vuitabir