پیر

Baluchi

Adjective

پیر • (pír)

  1. old

Persian
Dari Persian پیر‎
Iranian Persian پیر‎
Tajiki Persian пир (pir)

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian pyl (pīr, “old, aged, ancient”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /piːɾ/, [pʰiːɾ]

Adjective

پیر • (pir) (comparative پیرتر‎, superlative پیرترین‎)

  1. old
Usage notes

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

  • پیر مرد (pir mard, “old man”)
  • پیر زن (pir zan, “old woman”)

These are sometimes treated as compound words, i.e. پیرزن‎ (pir-e-zan, pir-zan) and پیرمرد‎ (pir-e-mard, pir-mard).

Inflection
basic forms of پیر
bare پیر (pir)
ezâfé پیر (pir-e)
marked indefinite, relative definite پیری (pir-i)
predicative forms of پیر
singular plural
1st person (I am/we are) پیرم (píram) پیریم (pírim)
2nd person (you are) پیری (píri) پیرید (pírid)
پیرین (pírin) (colloquial)
3rd person (he, she, it is/they are) پیر است (pír ast)
پیره (píre) (colloquial)		 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

Etymology 2

From پدر‎ (pidar)

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /piˈjæɾ/

Noun

پیر • (piyar)

  1. (dialectal, Harat) father

Urdu

Etymology 1

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

Noun

پَیر • (pair) m (Hindi spelling पैर)

  1. foot
  2. footprint

Etymology 2

From Persian پیر‎ (“old”).

Noun

پِیر • (pīr) m

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

Etymology 3

Uncertain.

Noun

پِیر • (pīr) m

  1. Monday

See also
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