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Webster 1913 Edition

Fir

Fir

(fẽr)
,
Noun.
[Dan.
fyr
,
fyrr
; akin to Sw.
furu
, Icel.
fura
, AS.
furh
in
furh
wudu fir wood, G.
föhre
, OHG.
forha
pine,
vereh
eih a sort of oak, L.
quercus
oak.]
(Bot.)
A genus (
Abies
) of coniferous trees, often of large size and elegant shape, some of them valued for their timber and others for their resin. The species are distinguished as the
balsam fir
, the
silver fir
, the
red fir
, etc. The Scotch fir is a
Pinus
.
☞ Fir in the Bible means any one of several coniferous trees, including, cedar, cypress, and probably three species of pine.
J. D. Hooker.

Webster 1828 Edition

Fir

FIR

, n.
The name of several species of the genus Pinus; as the Scotch fir, the silver fir, spruce fir, hemlock fir, and oriental fir.

Definition 2024

fir

fir

See also: fir- and fír

English

A fir tree (Abies balsamea)

Noun

fir ‎(countable and uncountable, plural firs)

  1. (chiefly countable, Britain) Any conifer of a variety of genera, especially a Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris or a true fir (Abies).
    • 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, chapter 3, in The Lord of the Rings:
      we shall find a spot that is sheltered and snug enough, sir. There is a dry fir-wood just ahead, if I remember rightly.
  2. (chiefly countable, US) A conifer of the genus Abies.
    • 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict:
      A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.
    • 1991, Paul Chadwick, Concrete: American Christmas, Dark Horse Books
      I can almost smell the fir scent… resinous, pungent.
  3. (uncountable) Wood of such trees.

Synonyms

  • (all countable senses): fir tree

Derived terms

Translations

References

  1. ↑ Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd edn., s.v. "fir" (Oxford, 2000).
  2. ↑ J.P. Mallory, Douglas Q. Adams, eds., Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture s.v. "oak", "pine" (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997), pp. 407, 428-9.

Anagrams

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fʲɪɾʲ/

Noun

fir m

  1. vocative singular of fear
  2. genitive singular of fear
  3. nominative plural of fear: "men"
    Sláinte chuig na fir agus go maire na mná go deo!‎
    Health to the men and may the women live forever!

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fir fhir bhfir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Lojban

Rafsi

fir

  1. rafsi of flira.

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German furi, from Proto-Germanic *furi. Cognate with German für, English for.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fiɐ̯/

Preposition

fir ‎(+ accusative)

  1. for

Derived terms

  • fir datt
  • fir d'éischt
  • fir ze

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

fir

  1. imperative of fire

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fʲirʲ/

Noun

fir

  1. vocative singular of fer
  2. genitive singular of fer
  3. nominative plural of fer

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
fir ḟir fir
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin fīlum.

Noun

fir n ‎(plural fire)

  1. thread, string, filament, wire
  2. (fir de păr) a hair

Derived terms

See also

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

fir m

  1. genitive singular of fear
  2. nominative plural of fear

Etymology

From Middle English firre, from either Old Norse fýri (as in fýriskógr 'pine-wood')[1] or Old English fyrh, furh (as in furhwudu 'pinewood'),[2] from Proto-Germanic *furhijǭ (compare Dutch vuren, Low German Fuhr, German Föhre ‎(“pine”), Danish fyr), from Proto-Indo-European *pŕ̥kʷeh₂ (compare Italian (Trentino) porca ‎(“fir”), from *pérkʷus ‎(“oak”) (compare Latin quercus ‎(“oak”), Albanian shpardh, shparr ‎(“Italian oak”), Punjabi ਪਰਗਾਇ ‎(pargāī, “holm oak, Quercus baloot”)). Related to frith.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /fɜː(ɹ)/
  • (US) enPR: fûr, IPA(key): /fɝ/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(r)
  • Homophone: fur

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