# تیر
## Central Kurdish
### Etymology

Compare Persian تیر (tir).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tiːɾ/

### Noun

| Northern Kurdish | tîr |
تیر (tîr)
* arrow

#### Derived terms

* تیرباران (tîrbaran)
* تیردان (tîrdan)
* تیرھاوێژ (tîrhawêj)
* تیرۆک (tîrok)
* تیرەمار (tîremar)

### References

* Hejar (1990) “تیر”, in Henbane borîne‎, Tehran: Soroush, page 173
* Wahby, T., Edmonds, C. J. (1966) “tîr”, in A Kurdish-English Dictionary, page 149

## Chagatai
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *dẹr (“sweat”).

### Noun

تیر (ter)
* sweat

#### Descendants

* Uyghur: تەر (ter)
* Uzbek: ter

## Persian
### Etymology 1

From Middle Persian 𐭧𐭲𐭩𐭠 (ḥtyʾ), [Book Pahlavi needed] (HTYA), [Book Pahlavi needed] (tgl), 𐫤𐫏𐫃𐫡 (tygr /⁠tigr, tīr⁠/, “arrow”), from Old Persian [Term?], compare 𐎫𐎡𐎥𐎼 (t-i-g-r /⁠tigraʰ⁠/, “sharp”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬙𐬌𐬖𐬭𐬌 (tiγri, “arrow”), 𐬙𐬌𐬖𐬭𐬀 (tiγra, “sharp”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [tiːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰiːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰiːɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [t̪ʰiːɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [t̪ʰiɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰiːɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰiɾ]
* Rhymes: -iːr

#### Noun

تیر • (tir) (plural تیرها (tir-hâ))
* arrow
** c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 118:گفت آری موی ابرو شد کمان سوی تو افکند تیری از گمانguft ārē mōy-i abrū šud kamān sōy-i tū afkand tīr-ē az gumān“Yes,” said ‘Umar, “the hair of thine eyebrow had become like a bow and shot at thee an arrow of opinion.”
* bullet
* dart
* (mechanics, engineering) beam
* pole

##### Derived terms

* تیرانداز (tir-andâz)
* تیراندازی (tir-andâzi)

##### Descendants

* → Bengali: তীর (tir)
** Rohingya: tir
* → Dhivehi: ތީރު (tīru)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: तीर (tīr)
    Urdu: تیر (tīr)
* → Marathi: तीर (tīr)
* → Marwari: तीर (tīr)
* → Ottoman Turkish: تیر (tir)
* → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਤੀਰ (tīr)
    Shahmukhi script: تیر (tīr)
* → Tajik: тир (tir)

#### References

* MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “tigr”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 83

### Etymology 2

From Middle Persian [script needed] (tyl /⁠Tīr⁠/, “a god; Mercury; 4th month; 13th day”). Compare Old Armenian Տիր (Tir), տրէ (trē), Iranian borrowings.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [tiːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰiːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰiːɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [t̪ʰiːɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [t̪ʰiɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰiːɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰiɾ]

#### Proper noun

تیر • (tir)
* Tir, the fourth month of the solar Persian calendar.
* Name of the thirteenth day of any month of the solar Persian calendar.
* (astronomy) Mercury (planet)
    Synonym: عطارد ('otâred)

#### See also

* planets of the Solar System: سیاره‌های منظومه شمسی (sayyâre-hâ-ye manzume-ye šamsi): تیر (tir) · ناهید (nâhid) · زمین (zamin) · مریخ (merrix) · مشتری (moštari) · زحل (zohal) · اورانوس (urânus) · نپتون (neptun)

#### References

* Eilers, Wilhelm (1976) Sinn und Herkunft der Planetennamen (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften: Philosophisch-historische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte; 1975.5)‎ (in German), Munich: Verl. der Bayerischen Akad. der Wiss., pages 43–50
* MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “Tīr”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 83

## Urdu
### Etymology 1

From Sanskrit तीर (tīra).

#### Noun

تیر • (tīr) m (Hindi spelling तीर)
* shore
* bank
* margin
* brink
* edge

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Classical Persian تیر (tīr).

#### Noun

تیر • (tīr) f (Hindi spelling तीर)
* Tir, fourth solar month of the Persian calendar
* (astronomy) Mercury (planet)

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Classical Persian تیر (tīr).

#### Noun

تیر • (tīr) m (Hindi spelling तीर)
* arrow
* beam
* pole

### Etymology 4

From Sanskrit तीरित (tīrita), from root तरति (tarati).

#### Adjective

تیر • (ter) (Hindi spelling तेर)
* passed
* spent (time)