شیر
Baluchi
Noun
شیر • (šír)
Burushaski
Etymology
From Classical Persian شیر (šēr)
Pronunciation
Noun
شیر (transliteration needed) (plural شیرشݸ)
References
Sadaf Munshi (2015) “Word Lists”, in Burushaski Language Documentation Project[1].
Central Kurdish
Etymology
Cognate with Persian شیر (šir).
Noun
شیر (şîr)
- milk (the liquid)
Kashmiri
Etymology
Borrowed from Punjabi شیر (śer).
Pronunciation
Noun
شیر • (śēr) m (Devanagari शेर)
Verb
شیر • (śēr)
- imperative singular of شیرُن (śērun, “to fix, repair”)
Khalaj
Noun
شیر (şîr) (definite accusative شیری, plural شیرلَر)
Declension
Persian
Etymology 1
From Middle Persian 𐫢𐫃𐫡 (šgr /šagr, šēr/, “lion; (astronomy) Leo”).
Sense 2 is from the fact that the first taps in Iran looked like lion heads.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ʃeːɾ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ʃiːɹ]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ʃeɾ]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | šēr |
Dari reading? | šēr |
Iranian reading? | šir |
Tajik reading? | šer |
Noun
Dari | شیر |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | шер |
شیر • (šir or šêr) (plural شیرها (šir-hâ) or شیران (širân))
- lion
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 751:
- چون رسد آن جا ببیند گرگ و شیر
عمر ضایع راه دور و روز دیر- čūn rasad ān-jā bibīnad gurg u šēr
umr-i zāyi' rāh-i dūr u rōz-i dēr - When he reaches the spot, he sees wolves and lions,
his life lost, the road far off, and the day late.
- čūn rasad ān-jā bibīnad gurg u šēr
- faucet, tap
- (Indo-Persian) tiger (sometimes also applied to the leopard)
Derived terms
- شیرمَرد (širmard, “hero, gallant”)
- شیرزَن (širzan, “lioness, heroine”)
- شیرفَش (širfaš, “lionlike, leonine”)
- شیرَافکَن (šir-afkan, “lion-slayer”)
- شیرَاوژَن (šir-owžan, “lion-slayer”)
- شیردِل (šir-del, “lionheart”)
- شیردال (šir-dâl, “griffin”)
- شیرِ کوهی (šir-e-kuhi, “puma”)
- شیرِ دَریایی (šir-e-daryâyi, “sea lion”)
- تولِهشیر (tule-šir, “lion cub”)
- شیرماهی (šir-mâhi, “Spanish mackerel”)
- شیرشاه (šir-šâh, “Lion King”)
- شیر و خوَرشید (šir-o-xoršid, “Lion and Sun”)
- شیر یا خَط (šir-yâ-xat, “heads or tails”)
- شیر شُدَن (šir šodan, “to summon up the courage”)
- شیر کَردَن (šir kardan, “to incite, provoke”)
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: şir
- → Bengali: শের (śer)
- → Gilaki: شیر (šīr)
- → Hindustani:
- → Khalaj: şîr
- → Ottoman Turkish: شیر (şîr)
- Turkish: şir
- → Uzbek: sher
Proper noun
شیر • (šêr)
References
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “šagr, šēr”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, pages 78–79
Etymology 2
From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (HLḆA), [Book Pahlavi needed] (šyl), 𐫢𐫏𐫏𐫡 (šyyr /šīr/, “milk”), from Proto-Iranian *xšiHrám, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšiHrám.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [ʃiːɾ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [ʃiːɹ]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [ʃiɾ]
Readings | |
---|---|
Classical reading? | šīr |
Dari reading? | šīr |
Iranian reading? | šir |
Tajik reading? | šir |
Noun
Dari | شیر |
---|---|
Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | шир |
شیر • (šir)
- milk
- کمی شیر اضافه کن
- kami šir ezâfe kon
- Add a little milk.
Inflection
Possessive forms of شیر (šir) | ||
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singular | plural | |
1st person (“my, our”) |
شیرم (širam) |
شیرمان (širemân) [Term?]△ (širemun) |
2nd person (“your”) |
شیرت (širat) [Term?]△ (širet) |
شیرتان (širetân) [Term?]△ (širetun) |
3rd person (“his, her, its, their”) |
شیرش (širaš) [Term?]△ (šireš) |
شیرشان (širešân) [Term?]△ (širešun) |
△ Colloquial. |
Derived terms
- هَمشیرِه (hamšire)
Descendants
References
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “šīr”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 90
Urdu
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Classical Persian شیر (šēr).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ʃeːɾ/
Noun
شیر • (śer) m (Hindi spelling शेर)
Declension
Declension of شیر | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
direct | شیر (śer) | شیر (śer) | ||||||
oblique | شیر (śer) | شیروں (śerō̃) | ||||||
vocative | شیر (śer) | شیرو (śerō) |
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Classical Persian شیر (šīr).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ʃiːɾ/
Noun
- Baluchi lemmas
- Baluchi nouns
- Baluchi entries with topic categories using raw markup
- bal:Beverages
- bal:Felids
- Burushaski terms borrowed from Classical Persian
- Burushaski terms derived from Classical Persian
- Burushaski terms with IPA pronunciation
- Burushaski lemmas
- Burushaski nouns
- Burushaski entries with topic categories using raw markup
- bsk:Animals
- Central Kurdish lemmas
- Central Kurdish nouns
- ckb:Beverages
- Kashmiri terms borrowed from Punjabi
- Kashmiri terms derived from Punjabi
- Kashmiri terms with IPA pronunciation
- Kashmiri lemmas
- Kashmiri nouns
- Kashmiri nouns in Arabic script
- Kashmiri entries with topic categories using raw markup
- Kashmiri masculine nouns
- Kashmiri non-lemma forms
- Kashmiri verb forms
- ks:Panthers
- Khalaj lemmas
- Khalaj nouns
- Khalaj terms in Arabic script
- Persian terms with usage examples
- Persian terms inherited from Middle Persian
- Persian terms derived from Middle Persian
- Persian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Persian terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Persian/iːr
- Rhymes:Persian/iːr/1 syllable
- Persian lemmas
- Persian nouns
- Persian terms with quotations
- Indo-Persian
- Persian proper nouns
- fa:Astronomy
- Persian terms inherited from Proto-Iranian
- Persian terms derived from Proto-Iranian
- Persian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-Iranian
- Persian terms derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian
- fa:Felids
- fa:Milk
- Urdu terms borrowed from Classical Persian
- Urdu terms derived from Classical Persian
- Urdu terms with IPA pronunciation
- Urdu lemmas
- Urdu nouns
- Urdu masculine nouns
- Urdu nouns with declension
- Urdu masculine consonant-stem nouns
- ur:Felids
- ur:Milk