кире

Bashkir

Etymology

From Proto-Common Turkic *kerü (back).

Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰚𐰃𐰼𐰇 (kerü, back, backward); Kazakh кері (kerı), Kyrgyz кери (keri), Turkish geri (back, backward), etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kʲe.ˈɾɪ̞]
  • Hyphenation: ки‧ре

Adjective

кире • (kire)

  1. (direction) back, reverse, return
  2. opposite, contrary
  3. negative
  4. obstinate, stubborn, contrarious

Adverb

кире • (kire)

  1. (direction) back, backward, in the reverse direction
  2. (past status) back, to/toward a status or position which occurred in the past

Derived terms

References


Erzya

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Permic *kerä (bunch, bundle, spool). Cognate to Finnish kerä, Estonian kera, Livonian kierā.

Pronunciation

Noun

кире • (kire)

  1. ball of string
  2. lump
    Кирьга парентень куйсь чапамо кире.
    Kiŕga parenteń kujś čapamo kire .
    I got the lump in the throat feeling.

Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

References

  • B. A. Serebrennikov, R. N. Buzakova, M. V. Mosin (1993) “кире”, in Эрзянь-рузонь валкс [Erzya-Russian dictionary], Moscow: Русский язык, →ISBN
  • Entry #285 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.

Tatar

Etymology

From Proto-Common Turkic *gErü (back).

Adverb

кире • (kire)

  1. back