پیر

پیر • (pír)

1. old

• IPA^(key): /piːɾ/

پیر (pîr)

1. old (of living things)

پیر (pe:r)

1. father

From Middle Persian 𐬞𐬌𐬭 (pyl /⁠pīr⁠/, “old, aged, ancient”), from Proto-Iranian *paru- (“ash-gray, pale gray, hoary”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *parHušás (“gray”); compare Sanskrit परुष (paruṣa, “spotted, rough”) and English pale.^[1]

• Rhymes: -iːr

پیر • (pir) (comparative پیرتَر, superlative پیرتَرین)

1. old, aged (of living things; see also قدیمی (qadimi) for non-living things)

   Synonyms: (more respectful) مُسِن (mosen, “elderly”), (more formal) سال‌خورده (sâl-xorde, “senior”), کُهَن‌سال (kohan-sâl, “very old, centenarian”)

   آموزگارِ پیر ― âmuzgâr-e pir ― aged teacher

   درختِ پیر ― deraxt-e pir ― old tree

When used with the words مرد (mard, “man”) and زن (zan, “woman”), پیر (pir) usually precedes them and forms compounds:

• پیرمرد (pir-(e)-mard, “old man”)
• پیرزن (pir-(e)-zan, “old woman”)

which are more common than مردِ پیر (mard-e pir) and زنِ پیر (zan-e pir)

• پیری (piri)
• پیرزن (pir-e-zan, pir-zan)
• پیرمرد (pir-e-mard, pir-mard)
• گنده‌پیر (gande-pir)

پیر • (pir)

1. (Sufism) Pir, Sheikh

• → Azerbaijani: pir
• → Bengali: পীর (pīr)
• → English: pir
• → Saraiki: پیر (pīr)
• → Sylheti: ꠙꠤꠞ (fir)
• → Urdu: پیر (pīr)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Herati) IPA^(key): /piˈjæɾ/

پیر • (piyar)

1. (dialectal, Herati) colloquial form of پدر (padar, “father”)

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀧𑀬 (paya) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀭- (-ra-), from Sanskrit पद (pada, “foot”).^[1]

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /pɛːɾ/

پَیر • (pair) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਪੈਰ)^[2][3]

1. (anatomy) foot
2. footing, foothold
3. footprint, footstep
4. podium, base
5. basis, foundation

Borrowed from Classical Persian پِیر (pīr). Sense 3 is a semantic loan from Urdu پِیر (pīr, “Monday”).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /piːɾ/

پِیر • (pīr) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਪੀਰ)^[4][5]

1. saint
2. old man
4. (uncommon) Monday – synonym of سومْوَار (somvār)

• Bashir, Kanwal (2012) “پیر”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Hyattsville, MD: Dunwoody Press

Inherited from Sanskrit पद (pada, “foot”) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀭- (-ra-).

• IPA^(key): /peːɾ/

پیر (per) m

1. (anatomy) foot

Borrowed from Classical Persian پیر (pīr, “old”).

• IPA^(key): /piːɾ/

پِیر (pīr) m

1. (Sufism) saint, mystic

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀧𑀬 (paya) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀭- (-ra-), from Sanskrit पद (pada, “foot”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pɛːɾ/

• Audio (Pakistan):

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• Rhymes: -ɛːɾ

پَیر • (pair) m (Hindi spelling पैर)

1. foot
2. footprint

Borrowed from Classical Persian پِیر (pīr).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /piːɾ/

• Audio (Pakistan):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːɾ

پِیر • (pīr) m (Hindi spelling पीर)

1. old man
2. (Sufism) saint, mystic
3. Monday

   Synonym: دو شنبہ (do-śanba)

• → Gujarati: પીર (pīr) (semantic loan)
• → Pashto: پیر (payr) (semantic loan)
• → Punjabi: (semantic loan)

  Gurmukhi script: ਪੀਰ (pīr)

  Shahmukhi script: پِیر (pīr)

• “پیر”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*padara”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 438

پیر (per)

1. jinn, ghost