zir

See also: žir, зір, жир, and zǐr

English

A zeer cooling vegetables

Etymology 1

From Arabic زِير (zīr).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

Alternative forms

• zeer

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

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, Lynsey Calderwood, 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.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• zirs

Determiner

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, Lynsey Calderwood, 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’ …

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

• zirself

Coordinate terms

• ze, zirs, zirself

Anagrams

• riz

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Arabic زِير (zīr).

Noun

zir

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

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of nəlbəki (“saucer”)
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Regional	Group	Subgroup	Location	Words
North Azerbaijani	Standard North Azerbaijani			nəlbəki
	Eastern		Quba	buşğab
			Salyan	ləmbəki
			Yardymli	zir
	Western	Qazakh-Tovuz	Qazakh	bölməki
			Tovuz	zir
		Central	Gadabay	çini
			Kalbajar	çini
			Jabrayil	ləmbəki
			Agjabedi	zir
	Southern		Nakhchivan	zir
			Ordubad	zir
			Sharur	zir
South Azerbaijani	Ardabil			zir

Further reading

• “zir” in Obastan.com.

Phalura

Etymology

From Pashto [script needed] (zər).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zir/

Numeral

zir (Perso-Arabic spelling زِر)

1. thousand

Alternative forms

• áak zir
• hazáar

References

• Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “zir”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎^[1], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Adverb

zir

1. very