tire

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tire"

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪ̯ə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪ̯ɚ/, [ˈtʰaɪ̯ɚ]
  • (Southern American English, Appalachia) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːɚ/
  • (Midwestern US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈtʌɪ̯ɚ/
• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
• Homophone: tyre

Etymology 1

From Middle English tiren, tirien, teorien, from Old English tȳrian, tēorian (“to fail, cease, become weary, be tired, exhausted; tire, weary, exhaust”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *teuʀōn (“to cease”), which is possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dews- (“to fail, be behind, lag”). Compare Ancient Greek δεύομαι (deúomai, “to lack”), Sanskrit दोष (dóṣa, “crime, fault, vice, deficiency”).

Alternative forms

• tyre (dialectal)

Verb

tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tiring, simple past and past participle tired)

1. (intransitive) To become sleepy or weary.
   • 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     As Moldova understandably tired after a night of ball chasing, Everton left-back Baines scored his first international goal as his deflected free-kick totally wrong-footed Namasco.

2. (transitive) To make sleepy or weary.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:tire

3. (intransitive) To become bored or impatient (with).

   I tire of this book.

5. (transitive) To bore.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cause boredom

Derived terms

• tire out

 

Related terms

• tiresome

Translations

to become tired

• Catalan: cansar-se, fatigar-se
• Danish: blive trætt
• Esperanto: laciĝi
• French: se fatiguer (fr)
• German: ermüden (de)
• Hungarian: elfárad (hu)
• Ingrian: vässyä, uupua, räytyä
• Kituba: lemba, kulemba
• Lingala: lembe
• Norwegian: bli trett
• Swedish: bli (sv) trött (sv), tröttna (sv)
• Tagalog: mapagod, pagurin

to become sleepy

• Arabic: تَعِبَ (taʕiba)

  Hijazi Arabic: تِعِب (tiʕib)

• Armenian: հոգնել (hy) (hognel)
• Belarusian: утамля́цца impf (utamljácca), утамі́цца pf (utamícca), стамля́цца impf (stamljácca), стамі́цца pf (stamícca)
• Bulgarian: уморявам се (umorjavam se)
• Catalan: cansar-se, fatigar-se
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勞累／劳累 (zh) (láolèi), 累 (zh) (lèi), 疲倦 (zh) (píjuàn)

• Czech: unavit se
• Danish: blive trætt
• Esperanto: laciĝi
• Finnish: väsyä (fi)
• French: se fatiguer (fr)
• Galician: cansarse, cansar
• German: ermüden (de)
• Greek: κουράζομαι (el) (kourázomai)
• Hindi: थकाना (hi) (thakānā)
• Hungarian: elfárad (hu), fárad (hu), kifárad (hu), elálmosodik (hu)
• Ido: fatigeskar (io)
• Irish: tuirsigh
• Italian: affaticarsi (it)
• Japanese: 疲れる (ja) (つかれる, tsukareru)
• Korean: 피곤하다 (ko) (pigonhada)
• Latin: dēfetiscor, lassor
• Northern Ohlone: 'ekjó̄qestek
• Norwegian: bli trett
• Polish: męczyć się (pl) impf, zmęczyć się (pl) pf
• Portuguese: cansar (pt), fatigar (pt)
• Quechua: sayk'uy, pisipay
• Russian: устава́ть (ru) impf (ustavátʹ), уста́ть (ru) pf (ustátʹ), утомля́ться (ru) impf (utomljátʹsja), утоми́ться (ru) pf (utomítʹsja)
• Spanish: cansar (es), cansarse
• Swedish: tröttna (sv)
• Thai: เหนื่อย (th) (nʉ̀ai)
• Turkish: yorulmak (tr)
• Ukrainian: уто́млюватися impf (utómljuvatysja), утомля́тися impf (utomljátysja), утоми́тися pf (utomýtysja)

to make sleepy

• Armenian: հոգնեցնել (hy) (hognecʿnel)
• Bulgarian: уморявам (bg) (umorjavam)
• Catalan: cansar (ca), fatigar (ca)
• Czech: unavit (cs)
• Danish: trætte (da)
• Dutch: vermoeien (nl)
• Esperanto: lacigi
• Faroese: lúgva
• Finnish: väsyttää (fi)
• French: fatiguer (fr)
• German: ermüden (de)
• Greek: κουράζω (el) (kourázo)
• Hungarian: fáraszt (hu), kifáraszt (hu), elfáraszt (hu), elandalít (hu), elálmosít (hu)
• Ido: fatigar (io)
• Irish: tuirsigh
• Italian: affaticare (it)
• Latin: fatīgō, lassō
• Portuguese: cansar (pt), fatigar (pt)
• Russian: утомля́ть (ru) impf (utomljátʹ), утоми́ть (ru) pf (utomítʹ)
• Spanish: cansar (es), fatigar (es)
• Swedish: trötta (sv)
• Turkish: yormak (tr)
• Ukrainian: сто́млювати impf (stómljuvaty), стоми́ти pf (stomýty)

to become bored

• Bulgarian: доскучава ми (doskučava mi), омръзва ми (omrǎzva mi)
• Catalan: cansar-se, avorrir-se
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 厭／厌 (jim³)

• Esperanto: laciĝi
• Finnish: pitkästyä (fi), kyllästyä (fi), tympääntyä (fi)
• Galician: fartar, anoxar, aburrir (gl), cansar
• Italian: stancarsi (it)
• Russian: надоеда́ть (ru) impf (nadojedátʹ), надое́сть (ru) pf (nadojéstʹ) (the person bored is the object, e.g. "мне надое́ло" - "I got bored" (by smth./smb))
• Spanish: cansarse, aburrirse, hartarse
• Ukrainian: набрида́ти impf (nabrydáty), набри́днути pf (nabrýdnuty)

to bore

• Esperanto: lacigi
• Finnish: pitkästyttää (fi), kyllästyttää (fi), tympäännyttää (fi)
• Galician: aburrir (gl), fartar, cansar
• Italian: stancare (it)
• Russian: надоеда́ть (ru) impf (nadojedátʹ), надое́сть (ru) pf (nadojéstʹ)
• Ukrainian: набрида́ти impf (nabrydáty), набри́днути pf (nabrýdnuty)

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Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} zich vermoeien, ^{(please verify)} moe worden
• French: ^{(please verify)} (se) fatiguer
• Ido: ^{(please verify)} fatigar (io)
• Norman: ^{(please verify)} lâsser (Jersey)

Etymology 2

Believed from Middle English tire (“equipment”) aphetic form of attire; see details at tyre. See also German zieren (“to decorate”).

Alternative forms

• (rubber covering on a wheel): tyre

Noun

tire (plural tires)

1. (American spelling, Canadian spelling) alternative spelling of tyre: The rubber covering on a wheel.
2. (American spelling) alternative spelling of tyre: The metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
3. A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.
4. (obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.
   • 1705, John Philips, Blenheim:

     the tire of war

5. (obsolete) Dress, clothes, attire.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Ne spared they to strip her naked all. / Then when they had despoild her tire and call, / Such as she was, their eyes might her behold.

   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

     , New York Review of Books 2001, p.66:

     men like apes follow the fashions in tires, gestures, actions: if the king laugh, all laugh […].

6. A covering for the head; a headdress.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 144:

     And on her head she wore a tyre of gold,

Usage notes

• Tire is one of the few words where Canadian usage prefers the US spelling over the British spelling.

Derived terms

• all-season tire
• all-weather tire
• balloon tire
• bicycle tire
• cold as a wagon tire
• cushion tire
• dog who caught the tire
• flat tire
• flat tire rule
• Michelin tire baby syndrome
• pump someone's tires
• radial tire
• snow tire
• spare tire
• spare tire well
• studded tire
• summer tire
• tire barrier
• tire bead
• tire chain
• tire-fire
• tire fire
• tire gauge
• tire iron
• tire kicker
• tire lever
• tire-pressure
• tire-pressure gauge
• tire spoon
• tire swing
• tire yard
• winter tire

 

Translations

rubber covering on a wheel — see tyre

Verb

tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tiring, simple past and past participle tired)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To dress or adorn.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Kings 9:30:

     [Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head.

Related terms

• tiring-house

Translations

to dress or adorn

• Catalan: adornar (ca), guarnir (ca)
• Portuguese: adornar (pt), enfeitar (pt)
• Russian: украша́ть (ru) impf (ukrašátʹ), укра́сить (ru) pf (ukrásitʹ)

Etymology 3

From Middle English tire, from Old French tirer (“to draw or pull”), akin to English tear (“to rend”).

Alternative forms

• tyre

Verb

tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tiring, simple past and past participle tired)

1. (obsolete) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
   • 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC; Shakespeare’s Venus & Adonis: […], 4th edition, London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent and Co. […], 1896, →OCLC:

     Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, / Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone.

     The spelling has been modernized.

   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], lines 94–97:

     I grieve myself / To think, when thou shalt be disedged by her / That now thou tirest on, how thy memory / Will then be pang'd by me.

   • 1612–1613, Nathan Field, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Honest Mans Fortune”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene v:

     Ye dregs of baseness, vultures amongst men, / That tire upon the hearts of generous spirits.

2. (obsolete) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:

     and now doth gaſtly death
     With greedie talients gripe my bleeding hart,
     And like a Harpye tires on my life.

   • 1616, George Chapman, Iliad:

     Thus made she her remove, / And left wrath tyring on her son.

   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Upon that were my thoughts tiring.

Etymology 4

Noun

tire (plural tires)

1. A tier, row, or rank.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     In posture to displode their second tire / Of thunder.

Further reading

• “tire”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “tire”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• REIT, Teri, iter, iter., reit, rite, tier, trie

Asturian

Verb

tire

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of tirar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of tirar

Azerbaijani

Other scripts

Cyrillic		тире
Abjad

Etymology

From Russian тире (tire), ultimately from French tiret.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tiˈre]
• Hyphenation: ti‧re

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Noun

tire (definite accusative tireni, plural tirelər)

1. dash (punctuation mark)

Declension

Declension of tire
	singular	plural
nominative	tire	tirelər
definite accusative	tireni	tireləri
dative	tireyə	tirelərə
locative	tiredə	tirelərdə
ablative	tiredən	tirelərdən
definite genitive	tirenin	tirelərin

Possessive forms of tire
	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tirem	tirelərim
sənin (“your”)	tiren	tirelərin
onun (“his/her/its”)	tiresi	tireləri
bizim (“our”)	tiremiz	tirelərimiz
sizin (“your”)	tireniz	tireləriniz
onların (“their”)	tiresi or tireləri	tireləri
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tiremi	tirelərimi
sənin (“your”)	tireni	tirelərini
onun (“his/her/its”)	tiresini	tirelərini
bizim (“our”)	tiremizi	tirelərimizi
sizin (“your”)	tirenizi	tirelərinizi
onların (“their”)	tiresini or tirelərini	tirelərini
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tiremə	tirelərimə
sənin (“your”)	tirenə	tirelərinə
onun (“his/her/its”)	tiresinə	tirelərinə
bizim (“our”)	tiremizə	tirelərimizə
sizin (“your”)	tirenizə	tirelərinizə
onların (“their”)	tiresinə or tirelərinə	tirelərinə
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tiremdə	tirelərimdə
sənin (“your”)	tirendə	tirelərində
onun (“his/her/its”)	tiresində	tirelərində
bizim (“our”)	tiremizdə	tirelərimizdə
sizin (“your”)	tirenizdə	tirelərinizdə
onların (“their”)	tiresində or tirelərində	tirelərində
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tiremdən	tirelərimdən
sənin (“your”)	tirendən	tirelərindən
onun (“his/her/its”)	tiresindən	tirelərindən
bizim (“our”)	tiremizdən	tirelərimizdən
sizin (“your”)	tirenizdən	tirelərinizdən
onların (“their”)	tiresindən or tirelərindən	tirelərindən
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tiremin	tirelərimin
sənin (“your”)	tirenin	tirelərinin
onun (“his/her/its”)	tiresinin	tirelərinin
bizim (“our”)	tiremizin	tirelərimizin
sizin (“your”)	tirenizin	tirelərinizin
onların (“their”)	tiresinin or tirelərinin	tirelərinin

French

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiʁ/

Verb

tire

1. inflection of tirer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology 2

Deverbal from tirer.

Noun

tire f (plural tires)

1. (in expressions) verbal noun of tirer; pulling, drawing

   vol à la tire ― pickpocketing

   voleur à la tire ― pickpocket

   métier à la tire ― drawloom

2. (Canada) taffy, especially maple taffy

   tire d’érable ― maple taffy

3. (France, informal) car
4. (dated) route

Etymology 3

From English.

Noun

tire m (plural tires)

1. (Canada, Louisiana) tire, tyre (of a car, truck, etc)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• trie, trié

Galician

Verb

tire

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

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French tirer (“shoot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiɣe/

Verb

tire

1. To shoot (hit with a bullet or arrow)

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from English tray.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tì.ré/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [tɪ̀.ré]

Noun

tìr̃ê m (possessed form tìr̃ên)

1. tray

Portuguese

Verb

tire

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

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtəiər/

Verb

tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tirin, simple past tiret, past participle tiret)

1. to tire

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiɾe/ [ˈt̪i.ɾe]
• Rhymes: -iɾe
• Syllabification: ti‧re

Verb

tire

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

Turkish

Etymology

From French tiret.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.ɾe/

Noun

tire (definite accusative tireyi, plural tireler)

1. "-" Hyphen-minus symbol, used as a hyphen, minus sign, and a dash.

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	tire
Definite accusative	tireyi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tire	tireler
Definite accusative	tireyi	tireleri
Dative	tireye	tirelere
Locative	tirede	tirelerde
Ablative	tireden	tirelerden
Genitive	tirenin	tirelerin