ձիր

Learned borrowing from Old Armenian ձիր (jir).

• (Eastern Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [d͡ziɾ]
• (Western Armenian, standard) IPA^(key): [t͡sʰiɾ]

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ձիր • (jir) (archaic)

1. gift, present
2. Alternative form of ձիրք (jirkʻ)

• Barseġyan, Hovhannes (1973) “ձիր”, in Hayeren uġġagrakan-uġġaxosakan, terminabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Orthographic–Orthoepic Terminological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Luys
• Aġayan, Ēduard (1976) “ձիր”, in Ardi hayereni bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Hayastan

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰēr-i-, from *ǵʰer- (“to yearn for”).

ձիր • (jir)

1. gift, present; favour, grace, boon, recompense

   ձիր առնուլ ― jir aṙnul ― to take a gift

   մի՛ ի ձիրս ինչ եւ ի շնորհս խօսել ― mí i jirs inčʻ ew i šnorhs xōsel ― not to adulate or flatter

2. faculty, talent

   ձիր պերճախօսութեան ― jir perčaxōsutʻean ― the gift of eloquence

• → Armenian: ձիր (jir), ձիրք (jirkʻ) (learned)

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ձիր”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ձիր”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “ձիր”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 434