Tyre

See also: tyre

English

Etymology 1

From Latin Tyrus, from Ancient Greek Τύρος (Túros), from Phoenician 𐤑𐤓 (ṣr /⁠Ṣur⁠/, “rock”) (), after the rocky formation on which the town was originally built. Compare Aramaic טוּרָא / ܛܘܪܐ (ṭūrā, “mountain, high territory”), Akkadian 𒋗𒊒 (Ṣurru), Tarifit aẓru (“rock”), Central Atlas Tamazight ⴰⵥⵔⵓ (aẓru, “stone”), Proto-Semitic *ṯ̣Vrr- (“flint”). Cognate to Arabic صُور (ṣūr), Hebrew צוֹר (Tzor), Tiberian Hebrew צר (Ṣōr), Turkish Sur.

Alternative forms

• Tyrus

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)

Proper noun

Tyre

1. (historical) A former city in Lebanon, a major port on the Levantine Sea that was a city-state in Phoenicia in antiquity and the capital of the Kingdom of Jerusalem during the Middle Ages.

Related terms

• Tyrian

 

Translations

an ancient sea port and city state of Phoenicia

• Amharic: ጢሮስ (ṭiros)
• Arabic: صُور (ṣūr)
• Aramaic: ܨܘܪ
• Armenian: Տյուրոս (Tyuros)
• Azerbaijani: Tir
• Belarusian: Тыр (Tyr)
• Bulgarian: Тир (Tir)
• Catalan: Tir
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 泰尔 (zh) (Tài'ěr), 推罗 (Tuīluó)

• Coptic: ⲧⲩⲣⲟⲥ (turos)
• Czech: Týros
• Dutch: Tyrus, Sur
• Egyptian: (ḏꜣwr)
• Finnish: Tyros
• French: Tyr (fr)
• Georgian: ტვიროსი (ṭvirosi)
• German: Tyrus, Tyros
• Greek: Τύρος (el) (Týros)

  Ancient: Τύρος f (Túros)

• Hebrew: צור (he)
• Hungarian: Türosz (hu)
• Irish: Tuír f
• Italian: Tiro (it)
• Japanese: ティルス (Tirusu)
• Korean: 티레 (Tire)
• Latin: Tyrus
• Latvian: Sūra
• Lithuanian: Tyras
• Ottoman Turkish: صور (sur)
• Persian: صور (fa) (Sur)
• Phoenician: 𐤑𐤅𐤓 (ṣwr)
• Plautdietsch: Tierus
• Polish: Tyr (pl)
• Portuguese: Tiro
• Romanian: Tir
• Russian: Тир (Tir)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Тир m, Сур m

  Roman: Tir m, Sur m

• Slovak: Tyros
• Slovene: Tir m
• Spanish: Tiro (es)
• Swahili: Tiro
• Swedish: Tyros
• Tagalog: Tiro
• Turkish: Sur (tr)
• Ugaritic: 𐎕𐎗 (ṣr)
• Ukrainian: Тір m (Tir)
• Uzbek: Tir
• Welsh: Tyrus m

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Tyre (plural Tyres)

1. A surname
2. A male given name

See also

• McIntyre
• Tirey
• Tyree
• Tyreese
• Tyrese

 

See also

• Tire
• Tyree

 

Anagrams

• reyt, tyer, Tyer, Trey, trey, trye