daire

Old Irish

Etymology

An io-stem relative of dair (“oak”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈda.rʲe]

Noun

daire n

  1. a forest of oak trees

Inflection
Neuter io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative daireN daireL daireL
Vocative daireN daireL daireL
Accusative daireN daireL daireL
Genitive dairiL daireL daireN
Dative dairiuL dairib dairib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants
  • Irish: doire

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
daire daire
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/		 ndaire
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دائره (daire), from Arabic دَائِرَة (dāʔira).

Pronunciation
  • (daíre) IPA(key): /daǐːre/
  • (dàire) IPA(key): /dǎire/
  • Hyphenation: da‧i‧re

Noun

daíre f pl (Cyrillic spelling даи́ре) or dàire f pl (Cyrillic spelling да̀ире)

  1. (plural only) dayereh, tambourine

Declension
Declension of daire
plural
nominative daíre / dàire
genitive daírā / dȁīrā
dative daírama / dàirama
accusative daíre / dàire
vocative daíre / dàire
locative daírama / dàirama
instrumental daírama / dàirama

References
  • “daire” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish دائره (daire), from Arabic دَائِرَة (dāʔira).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dɑːiˈɾe/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: da‧i‧re

Noun

daire (definite accusative daireyi, plural daireler)

  1. apartment (Short for apartman dairesi)
  2. office, department
  3. (geometry) the inner part of a full circle
  4. dayereh
  5. tambourine
    Synonym: tef

Declension
Inflection
Nominative daire
Definite accusative daireyi
Singular Plural
Nominative daire daireler
Definite accusative daireyi daireleri
Dative daireye dairelere
Locative dairede dairelerde
Ablative daireden dairelerden
Genitive dairenin dairelerin

See also

References
  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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