tyran

tyran (plural tyrans)

1. Obsolete form of tyrant.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “October. Ægloga Decima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:

     Lordly love is such a tyranne fell.

tyran (third-person singular simple present tyrans, present participle tyranning, simple past and past participle tyranned)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To act tyrannically towards.

• “tyran”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• ATryn, Taryn, ranty, tryna

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɪran]

tyran m anim

1. tyrant (a leader in many Ancient Greek city states)
2. tyrant (an unjust and cruel leader)

• krutovládce
• despota
• diktátor
• utiskovatel
• utlačovatel

• “tyran”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “tyran”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “tyran”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Via Latin tyrannus from Ancient Greek τύραννος (túrannos).

• IPA^(key): [tˢyˈʁɑnˀ], [tˢyˈʁɑn], [tˢyˈʁɑˀn]

tyran c (singular definite tyrannen, plural indefinite tyranner)

1. (historical) tyrant (a leader in many Ancient Greek city states)
2. tyrant (an unjust and cruel leader)

Inherited from Middle French tyran, borrowed from Latin tyrannus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek τύραννος (túrannos). Replaced Old French tirant.

• IPA^(key): /ti.ʁɑ̃/

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• Homophones: tirant, tyrans

tyran m (plural tyrans, feminine tyranne or tyrane)

1. tyrant
2. bully

• tyrannie
• tyrannique
• tyranniser

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

tyran

1. alternative form of tyraunt

tyran m (plural tyrans)

1. tyrant

From Old French tirant, from Latin tyrannus (“ruler, monarch; tyrant, despot”), from Ancient Greek τύραννος (túrannos, “lord, master, sovereign, tyrant”).

tyran m (plural tyrans)

1. (Jersey) tyrant

Learned borrowing from Latin tyrannus, from Ancient Greek τύραννος (túrannos). Doublet of tyrania and tyranozaur.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɘ.ran/

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• Rhymes: -ɘran
• Syllabification: ty‧ran

tyran m pers (female equivalent tyranka, diminutive tyranek)

1. tyrant (oppressive and harsh person)

   Synonyms: autokrata, despota, dzierżymorda, satrapa

2. (politics) tyrant (harsh and cruel ruler)
3. (Ancient Greece, historical, politics) tyrant (usurper; one who gains power and rules extralegally, distinguished from kings elevated by election or succession)

tyran m animal

1. tyrant flycatcher

• tyran in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tyran in Polish dictionaries at PWN