dir

dir

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Dirim.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Dirim terms

• dir.

dir (plural dirs)

1. Abbreviation of direction.
2. (computing) Abbreviation of directory.
3. Abbreviation of director.

dir (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of direct.

dir

1. Abbreviation of directly.

• D.R.I., IDR, RID, DRI, rid

From Latin dicere.

dir

1. to say

Inherited from Latin īre. The forms beginning with /b/ derive from corresponding conjugations of Latin vādere; those beginning with /f/ derive from forms of Latin esse.

dir

1. to go

• From OSLIN-AST Lexicón abiertu de la llingua asturiana .

dir

1. Alternative spelling of dia (“you”, dative)

• IPA^(key): /diʁ/

dir m

1. steel

• dire (Northern, Alghero)
• diure (Alghero)

Inherited from Latin dīcere, from Proto-Italic *deikō, from Proto-Indo-European *déyḱti (“to show, point out”). Compare Occitan dire or díser, French dire, and Spanish decir.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

• Audio:

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dir (first-person singular present dic, first-person singular preterite diguí, past participle dit)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to say, to pronounce
2. (transitive) to say, to tell

   Va dir una mentida.

   She told a lie.

   El dèiem que cuinés el sopar.

   We told him to cook dinner.

3. (transitive) to call, to refer to as
4. (reflexive) to be named, to be called

   Com et dius? ― What's your name?

Balearic has deis and Valencian has dis as the second-person plural present indicative form. This is similar to French dire having dites as the standard form instead of the expected disez, and contemporary Italian dire having dite as the standard form in place of the expected dicete.

• dir-se
• com et dius
• és a dir
• voler dir

• dicció
• dictar
• entredir

• “dir”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
• “dir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “dir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “dir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• Dir

From Middle High German dir, from Old High German dir, from Proto-West Germanic *þiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þiz.

• (standard) IPA^(key): /diːɐ̯/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -iːɐ̯
• (colloquially in unstressed position) IPA^(key): /dɐ/, /də/

dir

1. (personal) dative of du; you, to you.
2. (reflexive pronoun) dative of du; yourself, to yourself.

• “dir” in Duden online

From French dire (“to say”).

dir

1. (Saint-Domingue) to say, to tell

   Mo prié vou tant seulement vou pas dir personne à rien. ― I just ask that you don't tell anyone a thing.

• Haitian Creole: di

• S.J Ducoeurjoly, Manuel des habitans de Saint-Domingue, contenant un précis de l'histoire de cette île

dir (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of dire

• der (unstressed)

• IPA^(key): /diːr/, ,
• Rhymes: -iːə
• Homophones: dier, Dier, Dir

From Old High German dir.

dir

1. second-person singular, dative: you; thee

   Ech hunn dir e Bréif geschéckt.

   I have sent you a letter.

From Old High German ir. The d- is through unetymological segmentation of the ending -t of a preceding verb (*stitt ir → *stiddir → stitt dir). This development was assisted by a parallelism with the 1st person, in which the dative singular mir is also the nominative plural (this latter development occurred for a similar reason, but was earlier and is widespread throughout High German).

dir

1. second-person plural, nominative: you; you all; ye

   Hutt dir gutt geschlof?

   Have you slept well?

• Dir (singular and plural polite form)

• dire

From a contraction of Latin dīcō, dīcere.

dir

1. to say

• Occitan: dire, díder, díser

From Middle High German dir, from Old High German dir, from Proto-West Germanic *þiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þiz. Compare German dir.

• IPA^(key): /diːɐ̯/

dir

1. dative of du: you, to you

From Latin dūrus.

dir m (feminine singular dira, masculine plural dirs, feminine plural diras)

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Rumantsch Grischun) hard

• deir (Surmiran)
• dür (Puter, Vallader)

From a contraction of Latin dīcō, dīcere, from Proto-Italic *deikō, from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to show, point out”). The origin of some forms starting with sch- likely result from regular elisions of unstressed syllables: dīcēbam → *dcéβa → scheva.

dir

1. to say

• dir (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader)
• gir (Sutsilvan)
• deir (Surmiran)

dir m (plural dirs)

1. (anatomy, Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) liver

• deir (Surmiran)

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) gnirom
• (Surmiran) nirom
• (Puter) gniram
• (Puter) fio

dir

1. send

dir

1. Third-person dual pronoun: they two, them two

From a contraction of Latin dīcere (compare Italian dire), present active infinitive of dīcō.

dir

1. (transitive) to say, tell
2. (transitive) to affirm

* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• IPA^(key): /diːr/
• Homophone: dur (South Wales)

dir (feminine singular dir, plural dir, equative dired, comparative dirach, superlative diraf)

1. (obsolete) sure, certain, true

   Synonyms: sicr, gwir, gwirioneddol

2. (obsolete) inevitable, inexorable

   Synonyms: anochel, anorfod

• dirio (“to compel”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

dir

1. Soft mutation of tir (“land”).

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “dir”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “dir”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies