پیر

Baluchi

Adjective

پیر (pír)

  1. old

Gilaki

Noun

پیر (pe:r)

  1. father

Persian

Dari پیر
Iranian Persian
Tajik пир (pir)

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

Adjective

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 پیرâmuzgâr-e piraged teacher
    درختِ پیرderaxt-e pirold tree
    Synonyms: (more respectful) مُسِن (mosen, elderly), (more formal) سال‌خورده (sâl-xorde, senior), کُهَن‌سال (kohan-sâl, very old, centenarian)
Usage notes

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

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

Inflection
    Basic forms of پیر (pir)
bare پیر
(pir)
ezâfe پیر
(pir-e)
marked indefinite
or relative definite
پیری
(pir-i)
    Predicative forms of پیر (pir)
singular plural
1st person
(“I am, we are”)
پیرم
(piram)
پیریم
(pirim)
2nd person
(“you are”)
پیری
(piri)
پیرید
(pirid)
پیرین
(pirin)
3rd person
(“he/she/it is, they are”)
پیر است
(pir ast)
پیره
(pire)
پیرند
(pirand)
پیرن
(piran)
Colloquial.
Derived terms

Noun

پیر (pir)

  1. (Sufism) Pir, Sheikh
Descendants
  • Bengali: পীর (pīr)

Etymology 2

From پدر (pedar).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /piˈjæɾ/

Noun

پیر (piyar)

  1. (dialectal, Harat) father

Urdu

Etymology 1

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

Noun

پَیر (pair) m (Hindi spelling पैर)

  1. foot
  2. footprint

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Persian پیر (pir, old).

Noun

پِیر (pīr) m (Hindi spelling पीर)

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

See also

Ushojo

Noun

پیر (per)

  1. jinn, ghost
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