تیر

From Proto-Turkic *dẹr (“sweat”).

تیر (ter)

1. sweat

• Uyghur: تەر (ter)
• Uzbek: ter

From Middle Persian 𐭧𐭲𐭩𐭠 (ḥtyʾ), [Book Pahlavi needed] (HTYA), [Book Pahlavi needed] (tgl), 𐫤𐫏𐫃𐫡 (tygr /⁠tigr, tīr⁠/, “arrow”), from Old Persian [Term?], compare 𐎫𐎡𐎥𐎼 (t-i-g-r /⁠tigraʰ⁠/, “sharp”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬙𐬌𐬖𐬭𐬌 (tiγri, “arrow”), 𐬙𐬌𐬖𐬭𐬀 (tiγra, “sharp”).

تیر • (tir) (plural تیرها (tir-hâ))

1. arrow
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 118:

     گفت آری موی ابرو شد کمان
     سوی تو افکند تیری از گمان‏

     guft ārī mōy-i abrū šud kamān
     sōy-i tū afkand tīr-ē az gumān

     “Yes,” said ‘Umar, “the hair of thine eyebrow had become like a bow
     and shot at thee an arrow of opinion.”

2. bullet
3. dart
4. (mechanics, engineering) beam
5. pole

• تیرانداز (tir-andâz)
• تیراندازی (tir-andâzi)

• Bengali: তীর (tir)
  • Rohingya: tir
• Dhivehi: ތީރު (tīru)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: तीर (tīr)

  Urdu: تیر (tīr)

• → Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: تیر (tîr)

  Northern Kurdish: tîr

• → Ottoman Turkish: تیر (tir)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਤੀਰ (tīr)

  Shahmukhi script: تیر (tīr)

• → Rajasthani: तीर (tīr)
• Tajik: тир (tir)

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “tigr”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 83

From Middle Persian [script needed] (tyl /⁠Tīr⁠/, “a god; Mercury; 4th month; 13th day”). Compare Old Armenian Տիր (Tir), տրէ (trē), Iranian borrowings.

تیر • (tir)

1. Tir, the fourth month of the solar Persian calendar.
2. Name of the thirteenth day of any month of the solar Persian calendar.
3. (astronomy) Mercury (planet)

• (Mercury): عطارد ('otâred)

• (planets of the Solar System) سیاره‌های منظومه شمسی (sayyâre-hâ-ye manzume-ye šamsi); تیر (tir), ناهید (nâhid), زمین (zamin), مریخ (merrix), مشتری (moštari), زحل (zohal), اورانوس (urânus), نپتون (neptun)

• Eilers, Wilhelm (1976) Sinn und Herkunft der Planetennamen (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften: Philosophisch-historische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte; 1975.5)‎ (in German), Munich: Verl. der Bayerischen Akad. der Wiss., pages 43–50
• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “Tīr”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 83

From Sanskrit तीर (tīra).

تیر • (tīr) m (Hindi spelling तीर)

1. shore
2. bank
3. margin
4. brink
5. edge

Borrowed from Classical Persian تیر (tīr).

تیر • (tīr) f (Hindi spelling तीर)

1. Tir, fourth solar month of the Persian calendar
2. (astronomy) Mercury (planet)

Borrowed from Classical Persian تیر (tīr).

تیر • (tīr) m (Hindi spelling तीर)

1. arrow
2. beam
3. pole

From Sanskrit तीरित (tīrita), from root तरति (tarati).

تیر • (ter) (Hindi spelling तेर)

1. passed
2. spent (time)