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Languages (21)
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Azerbaijani • Esperanto • Fijian • Garifuna • Igbo • Indonesian • Inupiaq • Japanese • Javanese • Kakanda • Latin • Norwegian Nynorsk • Nyishi • Sranan Tongo • Sumerian • Tagalog • Tarifit • Tashelhit • Turkish • Yoruba
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Translingual

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Etymology

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Clipping of English Irigwe.

Symbol

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iri

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Rigwe.

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Azerbaijani

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Other scripts
Cyrillic ири
Arabic ايرى

Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *idrig. Cognate with Ottoman Turkish ايرى (iri), Karakhanid [script needed] (irig), Turkish iri, Gagauz iiri, Bashkir эре (ere). Probably cognate with Hungarian öreg, a Turkic borrowing.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [iˈri]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: i‧ri

Adjective

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iri (comparative daha iri, superlative ən iri)

  1. large
    Synonym: böyük
  2. coarse (composed of large parts or particles)

Antonyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • → Lezgi: ири (iri)

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin īre (“to go”).[1][2] Compare obsolete Italian gire, ire, Portuguese and Spanish ir, Romanian ii.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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iri (present iras, past iris, future iros, conditional irus, volitive iru)

  1. (intransitive) to go
    Mi iris al Novjorko per trajno.
    I went to New York City by train.
    • 2025 September 29, Jorge Nogueras, “La plej mallonga tago”, in uea.facila‎[2], archived from the original on 12 December 2025:
      Nu, unu tagon oni vokis min por ke mi iru tuj al la malsanulejo, ĉar mia sesjara filino trafiĝis je terura trafik-akcidento.
      Well, one day they called me so that I go immediately to the hospital, because my six-year old daughter got caught in a terrible traffic accident.

Conjugation

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Conjugation of iri
present past future
singular plural singular plural singular plural
tense iras iris iros
active participle iranta irantaj irinta irintaj ironta irontaj
acc. irantan irantajn irintan irintajn irontan irontajn
nominal active participle iranto irantoj irinto irintoj ironto irontoj
acc. iranton irantojn irinton irintojn ironton irontojn
adverbial active participle irante irinte ironte
infinitive iri imperative iru conditional irus

Derived terms

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adjectives
nouns
  • ĉieliro (“Ascension”)
  • eliro (“the act of exiting, leaving”)
  • enirejo (“entrance”)
  • eniro (“the act of entering”)
  • foriro (“departue”)
  • irado (“voyage, trip, act of going; manner, way of acting”)
  • iro (“trip, course, run, going”)
  • irvojo (“walkway”)
  • senelirejo (“dead end”)
  • trairejo (“passage, corridor”)
  • transiro (“transition”)
verbs

References

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  1. ^ André Cherpillod, “iri”, in Konciza Etimologia Vortaro [Concise Etymological Dictionary], →ISBN
  2. ^ Ebbe Vilborg, “iri”, in Etimologia Vortaro de Esperanto [Etymological Dictionary of Esperanto], volume 2, →ISBN, pages 107-108

Further reading

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Fijian

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Noun

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iri

  1. fan (device)

Verb

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iri (iri-va, iriva)

  1. to fan

Garifuna

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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iri

  1. name
    Ka biri? ― What's your name?
    Nibiri bei John. ― My name is John.

Inflection

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Possessives of iri
singular plural
first niri wiri
second biri hiri
third masculine feminine hiri
liri tiri

Igbo

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Igbo numbers (edit)
100
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1
    Cardinal: ìri
    Ordinal: ǹke īri

Numeral

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ìri

  1. ten

Indonesian

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Noun

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iri

  1. envy

Inupiaq

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Etymology

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From Proto-Inuit *ǝžǝ, from Proto-Eskimo *ǝðǝ. Cognate with Inuktitut ᐃᔨ (iyi), Greenlandic isi.

Noun

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iri (dual irrak, plural irrit)

  1. (anatomy) eye

Japanese

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Romanization

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iri

  1. Rōmaji transcription of いり

Javanese

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Noun

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iri

  1. envy

Kakanda

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Noun

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iri

  1. water

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Latin

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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īrī

  1. present passive infinitive of eō

Usage notes

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When īrī immediately follows the supine form of a Latin verb in an accusative and infinitive clause (indirect statement), the resulting phrase is the future passive infinitive form of that verb:

Vidēbat reum absolūtum īrī.[1] ― He saw that the defendant was going to be acquitted.

References

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  1. ^ Cic. Verr. II 2,74
  • “iri”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “iri”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Adjective

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iri

  1. (non-standard since 2012) neuter of iren
  2. (non-standard since 2012) feminine of iren

Nyishi

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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i- (“noun prefix”) +‎ Proto-Tani *rjek.

Noun

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iri

  1. pig

References

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  • P. T. Abraham (2005), A Grammar of Nyishi Language‎[7], Delhi: Farsight Publishers and Distributors

Sranan Tongo

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Etymology

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Probably a borrowing from Dutch hiel. The other creole languages have terms corresponding to bakafutu.

Noun

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iri

  1. heel
    Synonym: bakafutu

Sumerian

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Romanization

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iri

  1. romanization of 𒌷 (iri)

Tagalog

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Alternative forms

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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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irí (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜇᜒ)

  1. push (act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents such as when giving childbirth or defecating)
    Synonym: dagis
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Etymology 2

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *i-di (“that, there”).

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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irí (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜇᜒ) (dialectal)

  1. this one; this
    Synonyms: (Manila) ito, (Central Luzon) ari
    Ano ba iri? ― What is this?
Alternative forms
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Tagalog demonstrative pronouns
Direct (ang) Indirect (ng) Oblique (sa) Locative (nasa) Existential Manner (gaya ng)
Near speaker* ari/are, iri/ire/idi, yari** nari/nare, niri/nire/nidi, niyari† dini/dine nandini, narini, nairi/naidi, naari ere/eri, here/heri, ayri ganari, ganiri, garini(garni), gayari†
Near speaker and listener* ito nito dito nandito, narito, naito** heto, eto, ayto† ganito, garito(garto)**
Near listener iyan, yaan niyan diyan/diyaan nandiyan/nandiyaan, nariyan(naryan), nayan/nayaan**, naiyan‡ hayan, ayan ganiyan(ganyan), gay-an**, gariyan**
Remote iyon, yoon, yaon† niyon, noon, niyaon† doon nandoon, naron/naroon**, nayon/nayoon**, nayaon‡ hayon/hayun, ayon/ayun ganoon, gayon, gay-on, gayoon‡,garoon‡
*These two series have merged in modern Tagalog. The first row is used in some dialects, the second row is used anywhere else.
**These pronouns are used in some dialects.
†These pronouns are not commonly used in casual speech but more prevalent in literature.
‡Rare in text.

Etymology 3

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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irî (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜇᜒ) (obsolete)

  1. act of irritating the children
  2. inciting foolish things

Etymology 4

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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irì (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜇᜒ) (obsolete)

  1. delay; postponement; prolongation
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Further reading

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Tarifit

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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iri m (plural irawen, Tifinagh spelling ⵉⵔⵉ)

  1. neck

Declension

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Inflection of iri
singular plural
free state iri irawen
annexed state yiri yirawen

Tashelhit

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Etymology

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Inherited from Medieval Tashelhit [script needed] (er, “to love, to want”), from Proto-Berber *irβiʔ[1].

Cognate with Ghadames əβr (“to want”), Tamasheq erh, ărhu (“to love, to want”), Senhaja de Srair arr (“to love, to want”), Zenaga īri (“to want, to prefer”), Tamahaq er (“to love, to want”), Tetserret ar (“to want”). Within Pan-Berber, compare Guanche güiro (“relationships between men and women”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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iri (intensive aorist ttiri, verbal noun tayri, Tifinagh spelling ⵉⵔⵉ, Arabic spelling ايري)

  1. to want
    تاڭوري يلّان واتيڭ نّس، اورت يري يان.
    taguri illan watig nns, ur t iri yan
    a word of value, no one wants it.
  2. to love
    آر كم باهرا تّيريغ. ― ar km bahra ttiriġ. ― i love you so much.

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ The Reconstruction of Proto-Berber 'to say', reconstructing the iCiC Light Verbs and the reflexes of Pre-Proto-Berber *w
  • Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 2 f—l (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/2) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1137a

Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish ایری (iri), from Proto-Turkic *idrig, see Azerbaijani iri for more.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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iri

  1. large
  2. (of grains or particles) coarse

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Yoruba

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Etymology 1

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Probably cognate with Igala élì and Olukumi èrìrì

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ìrì

  1. dew

Etymology 2

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ì- (“nominalizing prefix”) +‎ rí (“to see”)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ìrí

  1. the act of seeing, sighting, or discovering
  2. (idiomatic) experience; sight
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