Central Franconian

Noun

Bir f ‎(plural Birre)

1. pear (fruit)

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German bira.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biːə̯/
• Homophone: Bier

Noun

Bir f ‎(plural Biren)

1. pear

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *bira, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérus (compare Old English byre, Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌿𐍂 ‎(baur, “son”))^[1]. Phonetically and semantically close to Messapic *bilia ‎(“daughter”) and *biles ‎(“son”), Matzinger reconstructs two different roots: Proto-Albanian *bʰi-ro and Proto-Messapic *bʰi-lo, both from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH ‎(“to grow, become”)

Noun

bir m (indefinite plural bij, definite singular biri, definite plural bijtë)

1. son

References

1. ↑ A Concise Historical Grammar of the Albanian Language, V.Orel, Koninklijke Brill , Leiden 2000, p. 26

Azeri

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bīr ‎(“one”)

Numeral

bir

1. (cardinal) one

See also

• on bir

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bīr ‎(“one”)

Numeral

bir

1. (cardinal) one

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary], Simferopol: Dolya, ISBN 966-7980-89-8

Gagauz

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bīr ‎(“one”)

Numeral

bir

1. (cardinal) one

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch bier.

Noun

bir

1. beer

See also

• perut gendut

Interlingue

Noun

bir

1. beer

Lojban

Rafsi

bir

1. rafsi of birka.

Malay

Etymology

From English beer.

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /be(r)/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /bɪ(r)/
• Rhymes: -be(r), -e(r)

Noun

bir

1. beer

Synonyms

• arak

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic بِئْر ‎(biʾr).

Noun

bir m ‎(plural bjar)

1. well

Middle English

Alternative forms

• bire, bur, byre

Noun

bir (plural birs)

1. A strong or favorable wind.
   • c. 1540, Destruction of Troy:

     Were blouen to þe brode se in a bir swithe.

2. An armed assault or sally; a clash or encounter; a blow or stroke; an attack or affliction.
   • c. 1540, Destruction of Troy:

     A ᵹonge knight..suet to þe Duke With a bir on þe brest, þat backeward he ᵹode.

3. Violence; strength; fury.
   • c. 1400, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:

     With alle þe bur in his body he ber hit on lofte.

4. An onrush, swiftness.
   • 1425, Wycliffe Bible, Judges 5:22:

     Enemyes fledden with bire.

5. A charge on an account.
   • 1415, Account Rolls of the Abbey of Durham:

     Item in l bir de debito versus Rad'm Forster, 13 d.

Descendants

• birr

References

• Middle English Dictionary

Middle High German

Etymology

From Old High German bira

Noun

bir ? (plural birn)

1. The pear

Old Irish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *beru

Alternative forms

• biur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʲir/

Noun

bir n ‎(genitive bero or bera, nominative plural beura)

1. stake, spit, point; spear, spike
   • c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 67^b11

     beura glosses sudes ‎(“stake”)

Declension

Derived terms

• berach ‎(“pointed”)

Descendants

• Irish: bior
• Scottish Gaelic: bior

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʲir/

Noun

bir ‎(gender unknown, genitive unattested, nominative plural beru)

1. water, spring, well
   • c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 158

     bir .i. uisce ... biror ⁊ inbir ⁊ tobur

Etymology 3

Non-lemma forms.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʲirʲ/

Verb

·bir

1. second-person singular present indicative conjunct of beirid

Mutation

References

• “1 bir (‘stake, spit’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “2 bir (‘water, spring’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic 𐰋𐰃𐰼 ‎(bir), from Proto-Turkic *bir, *bīr ‎(“one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biɾ/

Article

bir

1. a, an

Noun

bir ‎(definite accusative biri, plural birler)

1. mono
2. single

Declension

Numeral

bir

1. (cardinal) one

Turkmen

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bīr ‎(“one”)

Numeral

bir

1. (cardinal) one

Uzbek

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bīr ‎(“one”)

Numeral

bir

1. (cardinal) one

Volapük

Alternative forms

• bil (an older term (now obsolete) for "beer", the word bil now means "bile" in reformed Volapük)

Etymology

Reformed in the 1920s from bil, to make it more like its etymons.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bir/, [biɾ]

Noun

bir ‎(plural birs)

1. beer

Declension

Derived terms

• biröp
• hodabir
• vuitabir