daire

See also: dairə and Dáire

Old Irish

Etymology

An io-stem relative of dair (“oak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈda.rʲe]

Noun

daire n

1. a forest of oak trees

Inflection

Neuter io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	daireN	daireL	daireL
Vocative	daireN	daireL	daireL
Accusative	daireN	daireL	daireL
Genitive	dairiL	daireL	daireN
Dative	dairiuL	dairib	dairib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: doire

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
daire	daire pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndaire
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “daire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• dàjre, dàhire, dàira, dàhira

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دائره (daire), from Arabic دَائِرَة (dāʔira).

Pronunciation

• (daíre) IPA^(key): /daǐːre/
• (dàire) IPA^(key): /dǎire/
• Hyphenation: da‧i‧re

Noun

daíre f pl (Cyrillic spelling даи́ре) or dàire f pl (Cyrillic spelling да̀ире)

1. (plural only) dayereh, tambourine

Declension

Declension of daire

	plural
nominative	daíre / dàire
genitive	daírā / dȁīrā
dative	daírama / dàirama
accusative	daíre / dàire
vocative	daíre / dàire
locative	daírama / dàirama
instrumental	daírama / dàirama

References

• “daire”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish دائره (daire), from Arabic دَائِرَة (dāʔira).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɑːiˈɾe/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: da‧i‧re

Noun

daire (definite accusative daireyi, plural daireler)

1. apartment (Short for apartman dairesi)
2. office, department
3. (geometry) the inner part of a full circle
4. dayereh
5. tambourine

   Synonym: tef

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	daire
Definite accusative	daireyi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	daire	daireler
Definite accusative	daireyi	daireleri
Dative	daireye	dairelere
Locative	dairede	dairelerde
Ablative	daireden	dairelerden
Genitive	dairenin	dairelerin

See also

• (geometry): çember

References

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN