tir

See also: TIR, Tir, tír, tìr, tîr, and Appendix:Variations of "tir"

Translingual

Symbol

tir

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Tigrinya.

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *tir, from Proto-Celtic *tīros, from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”), i.e. "dry land" as opposed to lake or sea.

Noun

tir m (plural tirioù)

  1. land

Inflection
  Mutation of tir  
Breton consonant mutation
unmutatedsoftaspiratehard
singular tir dir zir unchanged
plural tirioù dirioù zirioù unchanged

Catalan

Etymology

See tirar (“to shoot”)

Noun

tir m (plural tirs)

  1. shot
  2. shooting (sport)

Derived terms
  • tir amb arc
  • tir olímpic

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *tir, from Proto-Celtic *tīros, from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”), i.e. "dry land" as opposed to lake or sea.

Noun

tir m (plural tiryow)

  1. land, earth

French

Etymology

Deverbal from tirer (“to shoot”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tiʁ/
  • Audio ("un tir")(file)

Noun

tir m (plural tirs)

  1. shot, shooting (of a weapon) [from 1660]
    tir précis ― precise shot
    tir au canon ― cannon firing
    tir à l'arc ― archery
  2. shooting (sport)
  3. shooting range [from 1826]
    • 1854, Gérard de Nerval, “Angélique”, in Les Filles du feu [The Daughters of Fire]:
      Un tir a été établi pour les archers dans un des fossés qui se rapprochent de la ville.
      A range was set up for the archers in one of the ditches that approach the city.
  4. blasting (in mines)

Derived terms

Further reading

Anagrams

Indonesian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtɪr/
  • Rhymes: -tir

Etymology 1

From Malay tir; ultimately from Tamil தேர் (tēr).

Noun

tir (plural tir-tir, first-person possessive tirku, second-person possessive tirmu, third-person possessive tirnya)

  1. (chess) rook; castle
    Synonym: benteng
  2. (chess) bishop
Alternative forms

Noun

tir (plural tir-tir, first-person possessive tirku, second-person possessive tirmu, third-person possessive tirnya)

  1. alternative spelling of tar (“tar”)

Further reading

Old Cornish

from Proto-Celtic *tīros

Noun

tir

  1. land

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tīraz, from Proto-Indo-European *dey-.

Cognate with Old Norse tírr (“glory, honour”) and Old Saxon tīr (“glory, renown”). A variant of Proto-Germanic *tērīn-, whence Old High German zierī (German Zier (“splendour, beauty”)).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tiːr/

Noun

tīr m

  1. fame; glory; honour

Descendants
  • Middle English: tir

Old Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tīros from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”), i.e. "dry land" as opposed to lake or sea. Cognates include English thirst, Latin terra.

Noun

tir m

  1. land

Descendants

Polish

Etymology

From blue-and-white plates with the French initialism TIR (“Transports Internationaux Routiers”), which are put on vehicles matching the requirements of the TIR Convention.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tir/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ir
  • Syllabification: tir

Noun

tir m anim

  1. articulated lorry

Declension
Declension of tir
singular plural
nominative tir tiry
genitive tira tirów
dative tirowi tirom
accusative tira tiry
instrumental tirem tirami
locative tirze tirach
vocative tirze tiry

Further reading
  • tir in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • tir in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Rohingya

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Bengali তীর (tīr), from Persian تیر‎ (tir).

Noun

tir (Hanifi spelling 𐴃𐴞𐴌)

  1. arrow

Romanian

Etymology

From French tir.

Noun

tir n (uncountable)

  1. shooting (of a weapon)

Declension
declension of tir (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) tir tirul
genitive/dative (unui) tir tirului
vocative tirule

Sumerian

Romanization

tir

  1. Romanization of 𒌁 (tir)

Tatar

Noun

tir

  1. sweat

Welsh

Etymology

From Old Welsh tir, from Proto-Brythonic *tir, from Proto-Celtic *tīros, from Proto-Indo-European *ters- (“dry”), i.e. "dry land" as opposed to lake or sea.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tiːr/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːr

Noun

tir m (plural tiroedd)

  1. land

Derived terms
Derived terms
  • abatir (“abbey land”)
  • blaendir (“foreground”)
  • Canoldir (“Mediterranean”)
  • cefndir (“background”)
  • coetir (“woodland”)
  • corstir (“marshland”)
  • crastir (“parched land”)
  • crindir (“parched land”)
  • culdir (“isthmus”)
  • cyfandir (“continent”)
  • cyffindir (“frontier, ecotone”)
  • cytir (“common”)
  • diffeithdir (“desert”)
  • ffendir (“fenland”)
  • Ffindir (“Finland”)
  • glastir (“pasture land, sward”)
  • gwastatir (“level, plain”)
  • gwlyptir (“wetland”)
  • Iseldiroedd (“Netherlands”)
  • llwyfandir (“plateau”)
  • mawndir (“peatland”)
  • maestir (“open country”)
  • milltir (“mile”)
  • mynydd-dir (“mountain land, hill country”)
  • peithdir (“pampa”)
  • pentir (“headland”)
  • rhandir (“division, allotment”)
  • rhostir (“moorland, heathland”)
  • Swistir (“Switzerland”)
  • ucheldir (“highland”)
  • tir agored (“champion land”)
  • tir ar rent (“fief”)
  • tir âr (“ploughland, arable land”)
  • tir breiniol (“franchise”)
  • tir bwrdais (“burgage”)
  • tir caeedig (“enclosure, enclosed land”)
  • tir comin (“common land”)
  • tir diffaith (“wasteland”)
  • tir eglwys (“glebe”)
  • tir esgob (“bishopland”)
  • tir ffermio (“farmland”)
  • tir glas (“greenfield”)
  • tir llan (“glebe”)
  • tir mawr (“mainland”)
  • tir neb (“no-man's land”)
  • tir oer (“tierra fria”)
  • tir poeth (“tierra caliente”)
  • tir pori (“pasture, grazing land”)
  • tir prysg (“scrubland”)
  • tir rhydd-ddaliol (“freehold land”)
  • tir rhyngafonol (“interfluve”)
  • tir rhywiog (“tilth”)
  • tir tro (“tillage”)
  • tir tymherus (“tierra templada”)
  • tir y goron (“crown land”)
  • tir ymylol (“marginal land”)
  • tir ysgol (“school ground”)

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
tir dir nhir thir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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