zir

See also: žir, зір, жир, and zǐr

English

A clay pot with another clay pot inside and wet sand between the two; the inner pot has vegetables in it
A zeer cooling vegetables

Etymology 1

Arabic زِير (zīr).

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

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

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

Coordinate terms

Anagrams

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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RegionalGroupSubgroupLocationWords
North AzerbaijaniStandard North Azerbaijaninəlbəki
EasternQubabuşğab
Salyanləmbəki
Yardymlizir
WesternQazakh-TovuzQazakhbölməki
Tovuzzir
CentralGadabayçini
Kalbajarçini
Jabrayilləmbəki
Agjabedizir
SouthernNakhchivanzir
Ordubadzir
Sharurzir
South AzerbaijaniArdabilzir

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

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

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Adverb

zir

  1. very
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