pire

pire

1. fire

Inherited from Middle French pire, from Old French pire, from Latin peior, from Proto-Indo-European *ped-yōs (“to the ground, downward”). Related to pis.

• IPA^(key): /piʁ/

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• Rhymes: -iʁ

pire (plural pires)

1. comparative degree of mauvais: worse

   Antonym: meilleur

pire m (uncountable)

1. (le pire) the worst

• “pire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• péri, prie, prié, ripe, ripé

pire

1. skin
2. leather

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.re/
• Rhymes: -ire
• Hyphenation: pì‧re

pire

1. plural of pira

pire

1. vocative singular of pirus

pire (Raguileo spelling)

1. snow
2. hail

• piren

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

pire

1. alternative form of pirie

pire

1. nominative singular of peior
2. alternative form of peior

pire

1. inflection of pirar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

pire n (plural pireuri)

1. alternative form of piure

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pìrē m inan (Cyrillic spelling пѝре̄)

1. mash

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• IPA^(key): /ˈpiɾe/ [ˈpi.ɾe]
• Rhymes: -iɾe
• Syllabification: pi‧re

pire

1. inflection of pirar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From Ottoman Turkish پیره (pire), from Proto-Turkic *bürge, *bürče (“flea”).

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pire (definite accusative pireyi, plural pireler)

1. flea

• pire otu

From Old French pierre, from Latin petra, from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra, “stone, rock”).

• IPA^(key): /piːʀ/

pire f

1. stone