bir

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”)

• IPA^(key): /biɾ/

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

1. son

From Proto-Turkic *bīr, *bir.

• IPA^(key): [bir]

bir

1. (cardinal) one

• bir-bir (“one by one”)
• bir-birini (“each other”)
• birdən, birdən-birə (“suddenly”)

From Proto-Turkic *bīr (“one”).

bir

1. (cardinal) one

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

From Proto-Turkic *bīr (“one”)

bir

1. (cardinal) one

Borrowed from Dutch bier.

bir (plural bir-bir, first-person possessive birku, second-person possessive birmu, third-person possessive birnya)

1. beer

• perut gendut

bir

1. beer

Borrowed from Dutch bier (“beer”).

bir

1. beer

bir

1. (cardinal) one

1. dnathan.com

Borrowed from English beer.

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

bir (Jawi spelling بير‎, informal first-person possessive birku, informal second-person possessive birmu, third-person possessive birnya)

1. beer

• arak

From Arabic بِئْر‎ (biʾr).

bir m (plural bjar)

1. well

• bire, bur, byre

From Old English byre (“strong wind, storm”).

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.

• English: birr

• Middle English Dictionary

From Old High German bira, from Vulgar Latin pira, plural of Latin pirum.

bir ? (plural birn)

1. pear

• Alemannic German: Biire
• German: Birne
  • → Estonian: pirn
• Luxembourgish: Bir
• Vilamovian: biyn
• Yiddish: באַר‎‎ (bar‎)

From Proto-Celtic *beru

• biur

• IPA^(key): /bʲir/

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. 67b11

     beura glosses sudes (“stake”)

• berach (“pointed”)

• Irish: bior
• Scottish Gaelic: bior

From Proto-Celtic *beru, *bẹrŭro- (“spring, well”), said by Matasović to likely be related to *brutus (“fermentation, boiling heat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-.

• IPA^(key): /bʲir/

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

See the etymology of the main entry.

• IPA^(key): /bʲirʲ/

·bir

1. second-person singular present indicative conjunct of beirid

• “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.

From Ottoman Turkish بر‎ (bir, “one”), from Proto-Turkic *bīr (“one”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰋𐰃𐰼‎ (bir).

• IPA^(key): /biɾ̝̊/

bir

1. a, an

bir (definite accusative biri, plural birler)

1. mono
2. single

bir

1. (cardinal) one

From Proto-Turkic *bīr (“one”)

bir

1. (cardinal) one

From Proto-Turkic *bīr (“one”)

bir

1. (cardinal) one

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

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

• IPA^(key): /bir/, [biɾ]

bir (plural birs)

1. beer

• biröp
• hodabir
• vuitabir