پیر

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See also: بیر, بير, تثر, بتر, پتر, ثبر, تتر, تبر, بثر, بئر, ببر, بري, ثري, يرب, يرث, يبر, يتر, and يثر

Baluchi

Adjective

پیر • (pír)

  1. old

Central Kurdish

Pronunciation

Adjective

Northern Kurdish pîr

پیر (pîr)

  1. old (of living things)

Derived terms

Gilaki

Noun

پیر (pe:r)

  1. father

Persian

Dari پیر
Iranian Persian
Tajik пир

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian 𐬞𐬌𐬭 (pyl /⁠pīr⁠/, “old, aged, ancient”), from Proto-Iranian *paru- (“ash-gray, pale gray, hoary”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *parHušás (“gray”); compare Sanskrit परुष (paruṣa, “spotted, rough”) and English pale.

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? pīr
Dari reading? pīr
Iranian reading? pir
Tajik reading? pir

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)
    Synonyms: (more respectful) مُسِن (mosen, “elderly”), (more formal) سال‌خورده (sâl-xorde, “senior”), کُهَن‌سال (kohan-sâl, “very old, centenarian”)
    آموزگارِ پیر ― âmuzgâr-e pir ― aged teacher
    درختِ پیر ― deraxt-e pir ― old tree
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
  • → Azerbaijani: pir
  • → Bengali: পীর (pīr)
  • → English: pir
  • → Saraiki: پیر (pīr)
  • → Urdu: پیر (pīr)

Etymology 2

From پدر (pedar).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

پیر • (piyar)

  1. (dialectal, Harat) father

References

  1. ^ Edelʹman, D. I. (2020) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 6, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 172

Saraiki

Etymology 1

Inherited from Sanskrit पद (pada, “foot”) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀭- (-ra-).

Pronunciation

Noun

پیر (per) m

  1. (anatomy) foot

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Classical Persian پیر (pīr, “old”).

Pronunciation

Noun

پِیر (pīr) m

  1. (Sufism) saint, mystic

Urdu

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

Noun

پَیر • (pair) m (Hindi spelling पैर)

  1. foot
  2. footprint

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Classical Persian پیر (pīr, “old”).

Pronunciation

Noun

پِیر • (pīr) m (Hindi spelling पीर)

  1. old man
  2. (Sufism) saint, mystic
  3. Monday
    Synonym: دو شنبہ (do-śanba)

See also

Ushojo

Noun

پیر (per)

  1. jinn, ghost
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