# tire
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈtaɪ̯ə(ɹ)/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈtaɪ̯ɚ/, [ˈtʰaɪ̯ɚ]
** (Southern US, Appalachia) IPA: /ˈtɑːɚ/
** (Midwestern US) IPA: /ˈtʌɪ̯ɚ/
* (Canada) IPA: /ˈtaɪ(ə)ɹ/, /ˈtʌɪ(ə)ɹ/, [ˈtəj(ə)ɹ]
* Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
* Homophone: tyre

### Etymology 1

From Middle English tiren, tirien, teorien, from Old English tȳrian, tēorian (“to fail, cease, become weary, be tired, exhausted; tire, weary, exhaust”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *teuʀōn (“to cease”), which is possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dews- (“to fail, be behind, lag”). Compare Ancient Greek δεύομαι (deúomai, “to lack”), Sanskrit दोष (dóṣa, “crime, fault, vice, deficiency”).

#### Alternative forms

* tyre (dialectal)

#### Verb

tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tiring, simple past and past participle tired)
* (intransitive) To become sleepy or weary.
** 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport‎:As Moldova understandably tired after a night of ball chasing, Everton left-back Baines scored his first international goal as his deflected free-kick totally wrong-footed Namasco.
* (transitive) To make sleepy or weary.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:tire
* (intransitive) To become bored or impatient (with).
    I tire of this book.
* (transitive) To bore.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cause boredom

##### Derived terms

* overtire
* tired
* tire out

##### Related terms

* tiresome

##### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

#### References

* ↑ J.P. Mallory & D.Q. Adams, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, s.v. "lack: deu(s)-" (London: Fitzroy-Dearborn, 1997), 343.

### Etymology 2

Believed from Middle English tire (“equipment”) aphetic form of attire; see details at tyre. See also German zieren (“to decorate”).

#### Alternative forms

* (rubber covering on a wheel): tyre

#### Noun

tire (plural tires)
* (American spelling, Canadian spelling) alternative spelling of tyre: The rubber covering on a wheel.
* (American spelling) alternative spelling of tyre: The metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
* A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.
* (obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.
** 1705, John Philips, Blenheim:the tire of war
* (obsolete) Dress, clothes, attire.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Ne spared they to strip her naked all. / Then when they had despoild her tire and call, / Such as she was, their eyes might her behold.
** 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, New York Review of Books 2001, p.66:
    men like apes follow the fashions in tires, gestures, actions: if the king laugh, all laugh […].
* A covering for the head; a headdress.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 144:And on her head she wore a tyre of gold,

##### Usage notes

* Tire is one of the few words where Canadian usage prefers the US spelling over the British spelling.

##### Derived terms

* all-season tire
* all-weather tire
* balloon tire
* bicycle tire
* cold as a wagon tire
* cushion tire
* dog who caught the tire
* flat tire
* flat tire rule
* Michelin tire baby syndrome
* pump someone's tires
* radial tire
* snow tire
* spare tire
* spare tire well
* studded tire
* summer tire
* tire barrier
* tire bead
* tire chain
* tire fire
* tire-fire
* tire gage
* tire gauge
* tire iron
* tire kicker
* tire lever
* tire-pressure
* tire-pressure gauge
* tire spoon
* tire swing
* tire yard
* tundra tire
* winter tire

##### Descendants

* → Kashubian: tajra (Canada)

##### Translations
#### Verb

tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tiring, simple past and past participle tired)
* (transitive, obsolete) To dress or adorn.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Kings 9:30:[Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head.

##### Related terms

* tiring-house

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

From Middle English tire, from Old French tirer (“to draw or pull”), akin to English tear (“to rend”).

#### Alternative forms

* tyre

#### Verb

tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tiring, simple past and past participle tired)
* (obsolete) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
** 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC:Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, / Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone.
** 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], lines 94–97:I grieve myself / To think, when thou shalt be disedged by her / That now thou tirest on, how thy memory / Will then be pang'd by me.
** 1612–1613, Nathan Field, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Honest Mans Fortune”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene v:Ye dregs of baseness, vultures amongst men, / That tire upon the hearts of generous spirits.
* (obsolete) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
** c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:and now doth gaſtly death With greedie talients gripe my bleeding hart, And like a Harpye tires on my life.
** 1616, George Chapman, Iliad:Thus made she her remove, / And left wrath tyring on her son.
** c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):Upon that were my thoughts tiring.

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

tire (plural tires)
* A tier, row, or rank.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:In posture to displode their second tire / Of thunder.

### Further reading

* “tire”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “tire”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* REIT, Teri, iter, iter., reit, rite, tier, trie

## Asturian
### Verb

tire
* first-person singular present subjunctive of tirar
* third-person singular present subjunctive of tirar

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

From Russian тире (tire), ultimately from French tiret.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [tiˈre]
* Hyphenation: ti‧re
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

tire (definite accusative tireni, plural tirelər)
* dash (punctuation mark)

#### Declension
## French
### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tiʁ/

#### Verb

tire
* inflection of tirer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Etymology 2

Deverbal of tirer.

#### Noun

tire f (plural tires)
* (in expressions) verbal noun of tirer; pulling, drawing
    vol à la tire ― pickpocketing
    voleur à la tire ― pickpocket
    métier à la tire ― drawloom
* (Canada) taffy, especially maple taffy
    tire d’érable ― maple taffy
* (France, informal) car
* (dated) route

### Etymology 3

From English.

#### Noun

tire m (plural tires)
* (North America) tire, tyre (of a car, truck, etc)

### Further reading

* “tire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* trie, trié

## Galician
### Verb

tire
* inflection of tirar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Haitian Creole
### Etymology

Inherited from French tirer.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tiɣe/

### Verb

tire
* to shoot (hit with a bullet or arrow)

## Hausa
### Etymology

Borrowed from English tray.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tì.ré/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [tɪ̀.ré]

### Noun

tìr̃ê m (possessed form tìr̃ên)
* tray

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtiː.re/

### Noun

tīre
* dative singular of tīr

## Portuguese
### Verb

tire
* inflection of tirar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Scots
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtəiər/

### Verb

tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tirin, simple past tiret, past participle tiret)
* to tire

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtiɾe/ [ˈt̪i.ɾe]
* Rhymes: -iɾe
* Syllabification: ti‧re

### Verb

tire
* inflection of tirar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Turkish
### Etymology

From French tiret.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ti.ɾe/

### Noun

tire (definite accusative tireyi, plural tireler)
* "-" Hyphen-minus symbol, used as a hyphen, minus sign, and a dash.