تیره

From Greek Θείρα (Theíra).

تیره • (tire)

1. Tire (a town and districtp, a İzmir in Turkey)

• Turkish: Tire
• → Armenian: Թիրէ (Tʻirē)

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2010–) “Tire”, in Nişanyan Yeradları: Türkiye ve Çevre Ülkeler Yerleşim Birimleri Envanteri [Index Anatolicus: An inventory of place names of Turkey and surrounding countries] (in Turkish)
• Sezen, Tahir (2017) “Tire”, in Osmanlı Yer Adları [Ottoman Place Names]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Ankara: T.C. Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü, page 756

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (tylk' /⁠tērag⁠/, “dark”).

تیره • (tēra / tire)

1. dark; dim

   Synonym: تاریک (tārīk / târik)

   شبی تیره ― šabi tire ― a dark night

   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 75:

     چو روز حشر سر از خاک تیره بردارم
     بخاک پای تو خواهم نهاد روی چو زر

     čū rōz-i hašr sar az xāk-i tēra bardāram
     ba-xāk-i pā-yi tu xwāham nihād rō-yi čū zar

     When I raise my head from the dark earth on Resurrection Day,
     I will place my golden face on the earth below your feet.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

2. turbulent (of water)

   آبِ تیره ― âb-e tire ― turbulent water

3. (figurative) gloomy; despondent

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

تیره • (tīra / tire)

1. sect, division
   1. section of a nomadic tribe; sometimes synonymous with طایفه (tāyifa / tâyefe, “tribal subdivision”), sometimes a subsection within a طایفه.
   2. religious sect
2. (taxonomy) family; generally used for plants and birds.

• خانواده (xānawāda / xânevâde) is generally used for animal families.