پیر

پیر

Baluchi

Adjective

پیر • (pír)

1. old

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Gilaki

Noun

پیر (pe:r)

1. father

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Persian

Dari	پیر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	пир (pir)

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [Term?] (pyl /pīr/, “old, aged, ancient”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /piːɾ/

• (Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /piːɾ/

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /piːɾ/

• (Tajik) IPA^(key): /piɾ/

Adjective

پیر • (pir) (comparative پیرتَر‎ (pir-tar), superlative پیرتَرین‎ (pir-tarin))

1. old, aged (of living things; see also قدیمی‎ (qadimi) for non-living things)

   ‏آموزگارِ پیر‎ ― âmuzgar-e pir ― aged teacher

   ‏درختِ پیر‎ ― deraxt-e pir ― old tree

   Synonyms: (more respectful) مُسِن‎ (mosen, “elderly”), (more formal) سال‌خورده‎ (sâl-xorde, “senior”), کُهَن‌سال‎ (kohan-sâl, “very old, centenarian”)

Usage notes

When used with the words مرد‎ (mard, “man”) and زن‎ (zan, “woman”), پیر (pir) usually precedes them and forms compounds:

• پیرمرد‎ (pir-(e)-mard, “old man”)
• پیرزن‎ (pir-(e)-zan, “old woman”)

which are more common than مردِ پیر (mard-e pir) and زنِ پیر (zan-e pir)

Inflection

Basic forms of پیر (pir)
bare	پیر (pir)
ezâfe	پیر (pir-e)
marked indefinite or relative definite	پیری‎ (pir-i)

Predicative forms of پیر (pír)
	singular	plural
1st person (“I am, we are”)	پیرم‎ (píram)	پیریم‎ (pírim)
2nd person (“you are”)	پیری‎ (píri)	پیرید‎ (pírid) پیرین‎ △ (pírin)
3rd person (“he/she/it is, they are”)	پیر است‎ (pír ast) پیره‎ △ (píre)	پیرند‎ (pírand) پیرن‎ △ (píran)
△ Colloquial.

Derived terms

• پیری‎ (piri)
• پیرزن‎ (pir-e-zan, pir-zan)
• پیرمرد‎ (pir-e-mard, pir-mard)
• گنده‌پیر‎ (gande-pir)

Noun

پیر • (pir)

1. (Sufism) Pir, Sheikh

Descendants

• → Bengali: পীর (pīr)

Etymology 2

From پدر‎ (pidar).

Alternative forms

• پدر‎ (pedar)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piˈjæɾ/

Noun

پیر • (piyar)

1. (dialectal, Harat) father

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Urdu

Etymology 1

From Sanskrit *पदर (padara), from पद (pada, “foot”).

Noun

پَیر • (pair) m (Hindi spelling पैर)

1. foot
2. footprint

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Persian پیر‎ (pir, “old”).

Noun

پِیر • (pīr) m (Hindi spelling पीर)

1. old man
2. (Sufism) saint, mystic
3. Monday

See also

• (days of the week) ہفتے کے دن‎ (hafte ke din)‎; اتوار‎ (itvār)‎, پیر (pīr)‎, منگل‎‎ (mangal)‎, بدھ‎ (budh)‎, جمعرات‎ (jumi'rāt)‎, جمعہ‎ (jum'a)‎, ہفتہ‎ (hafta)‎ ^{(Category: ur:Days of the week)}

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Ushojo

Noun

پیر (per)

1. jinn, ghost