# zir
## English
### Etymology 1

From Arabic زِير (zīr).

#### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /zɪɹ/, /zɪɚ/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /zɪə(ɹ)/
* Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ), -ɪ(ɹ)

#### Noun

zir (plural zirs)
* 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

* zeer

### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /zɪɹ/, /zɪɚ/, /zɚ/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /zɪə(ɹ)/
* Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ), -ɪ(ɹ), -ɜː(ɹ)

#### Pronoun

zir (third-person singular, gender-neutral, objective case, reflexive hirself)
* (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

* zirs

#### Determiner

zir
* (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

* zirself

#### Coordinate terms

* ze, zirs, zirself

### Anagrams

* riz

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

From Arabic زِير (zīr).

### Noun

zir
* (Yardimli, Tovuz, Agjabedi, Nakhchivan, Ordubad, Sharur, Ardabil) synonym of nəlbəki (“saucer”)

#### Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of nəlbəki (“saucer”) :
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| Regional | Group | Subgroup | Location | Words |
| North Azerbaijani | Standard North Azerbaijani | Standard North Azerbaijani | Standard North Azerbaijani | nəlbəki |
| North Azerbaijani | Eastern | Eastern | Quba | buşğab |
| North Azerbaijani | Eastern | Eastern | Salyan | ləmbəki |
| North Azerbaijani | Eastern | Eastern | Yardymli | zir |
| North Azerbaijani | Western | Qazakh-Tovuz | Qazakh | bölməki |
| North Azerbaijani | Western | Qazakh-Tovuz | Tovuz | zir |
| North Azerbaijani | Western | Central | Gadabay | çini |
| North Azerbaijani | Western | Central | Kalbajar | çini |
| North Azerbaijani | Western | Central | Jabrayil | ləmbəki |
| North Azerbaijani | Western | Central | Agjabedi | zir |
| North Azerbaijani | Southern | Southern | Nakhchivan | zir |
| North Azerbaijani | Southern | Southern | Ordubad | zir |
| North Azerbaijani | Southern | Southern | Sharur | zir |
| South Azerbaijani | Ardabil | Ardabil | Ardabil | zir |

### Further reading

* “zir” in Obastan.com.

## Phalura
### Etymology

From Pashto [script needed] (zər).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /zir/

### Numeral

zir (Perso-Arabic spelling زِر)
* thousand

#### Alternative forms

* áak zir
* hazáar

### References

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

## Vilamovian
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adverb

zir
* very