धीर

Borrowed from Sanskrit धीर (dhīra).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /d̪ʱiːɾ/
• Rhymes: -iːɾ

धीर • (dhīr)

1. steadfast, resolute; bold

• Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “धीर”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House
• “धीर”, in Collins Gem Hindi-English Dictionary, Collins, 2011, →ISBN
• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “धीर”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi : Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “धीर”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Platts, John T. (1884) “धीर”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

धीर

1. Devanagari script form of dhīra (“wise; firm”)

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /dʱíː.ɾɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈd̪ʱiː.ɾɐ/

From the root धी (dhī, “to perceive, think”).^[1] Later meanings "steady, etc." influenced by the root धृ (dhṛ, “to hold, to be firm”).^[2]

धीर • (dhī́ra) stem

1. intelligent, wise, skillful, clever
   • (Can we date this quote?), The Buddha, Dhammapada(pāḷi) (subsequently translated from Pali to Sanskrit), Appamādavaɡɡa, page 32; republished in The Eighteenth Book in the Suttanta-Pitaka: Khuddaka-Nikāya‎, Colombo, 2009:

     8. ප්‍රමාදමප්‍රමාදෙන යදා නුදති පණ‍්ඩිතඃ
     ප්‍රඥාප්‍රසාදමාරුහ්‍ය ත්‍වශොකඃ ශොකිනීං ප්‍රජාම්
     පර්‍වතස‍්ථ ඉව භූමිෂ‍්ඨාන් ධීරො බාලානවෙක්‍ෂතෙ

     8 Pramādamapramādena yadā nudati paṇḍitaḥ
     Prajñāprasādamāruhya tvaśokaḥ śokinīṃ prajām
     Parvatastha iva bhūmiṣṭhān dhīro bālānavekṣate

     8. When the astute dispel negligence by means of diligence,
     having ascended the palace of wisdom, the sorrow-free then behold this generation of sorrow,
     as a wise man on a mountain-top beholds the fools below.

     (literally, “8. When the astute dispel negligence by means of diligence,
     having ascended the palace of wisdom, the sorrow-free then behold this generation of sorrow,
     as a wise man on a mountain-top beholds the fools on the ground.”)

     (Wiktionary translation adapted from translation of the Pali by Ajahn Sujato.)

2. steady, constant, firm, resolute, brave, energetic, courageous, self-possessed, composed, calm, grave
3. deep, low, dull (as sound)
4. gentle, soft
5. well-conducted, well-bred

• Punjabi: ਧੀਰਾ (dhīrā)

From 'Etymology 1' (the ocean as an image of constancy)?

धीर • (dhī́ra) stem, m

1. the ocean, sea
2. name of बलि (bali)

धीर • (dhīra) stem, n

1. saffron

• Monier Williams (1899) “धीर”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 517, column 1.
• Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2025) “dhīra”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.