Baluchi

Noun

شیر • ‎(šír)

1. milk

Central Kurdish

شیر

Etymology

Cognate with Persian شیر ‎(šīr).

Noun

شیر ‎(şîr)

1. milk (the liquid)

Persian

Etymology 1

From late Middle Persian šgl ‎(šagr, šēr, “lion; (astronomy) Leo”), from Old Persian *šagra-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian, Dari) IPA^(key): [ʃeːɾ]
• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): [ʃiːɾ]

Noun

شیر • ‎(šir) ‎(plural شیرها ‎(šir-hâ) or شیران ‎(širân))

1. lion
2. faucet, tap

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 HLḆA, šyl ‎(šīr, “milk”), from Old Iranian *xšīra- (compare Manichaean Middle Persian šyyr), from Proto-Iranian (compare Avestan [script needed] ‎(xšvid-), Kurdish şîr), from Proto-Indo-Iranian (compare Sanskrit क्षीर ‎(kṣīra, “milk”)), from Proto-Indo-European *swēyd- ‎(“milk”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian, Dari, Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /ʃiːɾ/

Noun

شیر • ‎(šir)

1. milk

Inflection

Derived terms

• همشیره ‎(hamšire)

Descendants

• Hindustani:

  Hindi: शीर ‎(šīr)

  Urdu: شیر ‎(šīr)

• Ottoman Turkish: شیر ‎(şîr)
  • Turkish: şir

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “šīr”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 90

Urdu

Etymology 1

From Persian شیر ‎(šēr).

Noun

شیر • ‎(šer) m ‎(Hindi spelling शेर)

1. lion
2. tiger

Synonyms

• (lion): سنگھ ‎(sĩṅgh)
• (tiger): باگھ ‎(bāgh)

Etymology 2

From Persian شیر ‎(šir).

Noun

شیر • ‎(šīr) m ‎(Hindi spelling शीर)

1. milk

Synonyms

• دودھ ‎(dūdh)