چیره

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Persian

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading^?	čīra
Dari reading^?	čīra
Iranian reading^?	čire
Tajik reading^?	čira


Iranian Persian	چیره
Dari	چیره
Tajik	чира

Adjective

چیره • (čire) (comparative چیره‌تَر (čire-tar), superlative چیره‌تَرین (čire-tarin))

prevailing, victorious
brave, strong, powerful
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 2266:
  نیست چیره چون ترا چیره کند
  نور ندهد مر ترا تیره کند
  nīst čīra čūn tu-rā čīra kunad
  nūr na-dihad mar tu-rā tīra kunad
  He is not strong: how should he make thee strong?
  He does not give light, (nay) he makes thee dark.
  (Classical Persian transliteration)
rude, violent

References

Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “چیره”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “چیره”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

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