zir

• (General American) IPA^(key): /zɪɹ/, /zɪɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /zɪə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ), -ɪɹ

Arabic زِير‎ (zīr).

zir (plural zirs)

1. A large clay jug for storing water, common in Egypt and the Sudan since ancient times.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:zir.

• zeer

Blend of z (“gender-neutral (as in ze)”) +‎ i (“him/his”) +‎ r (“her”).

zir (third-person singular, gender-neutral, objective case, reflexive hirself)

1. (rare, nonstandard) Gender-neutral third-person singular accusative (object) pronoun, equivalent to singular them and coordinate with him and her.
   • 2002, Calderwood, Lynsey, Cracked: Recovering After Traumatic Brain Injury, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 155:

     However, it soon became very lonely as none of Alice’s school friends could see zir anymore and they soon forgot all about zir.

• see Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns
• hir (also used with ze)

• zirs

zir

1. (rare, nonstandard) Belonging to zir, gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, equivalent to singular their and coordinate with his and her.
   • 2002, Calderwood, Lynsey, Cracked: Recovering After Traumatic Brain Injury, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 155:

     … just when it seemed like zie was beginning to get a handle on zir teapot and form normal relationships – although one could hardly call zir twice-weekly sexual encounters with the March Hare ‘normal’ …

Used with ze (“gender-neutral subject, coordinate to he/she”).

• zirself

• riz

From Arabic زِير‎ (zīr).

zir

1. (Yardymli, Tovuz, Agjabedi, Nakhchivan, Ordubad, Sharur, Ardebil) synonym of nəlbəki (“saucer”)

• “zir” in Obastan.com.

From Pashto [script needed] (zər).

• IPA^(key): /zir/

zir (Perso-Arabic spelling زِر)

1. thousand

• áak zir
• hazáar

• Liljegren, Henrik; Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎, Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

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zir

1. very