tyre

See also Tyre

English

Wikipedia

Wikipedia

Etymology

The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that the word derives from attire, while other sources suggest a connection with the verb to tie. The spelling tyre is used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand after being revived in the 19th century. Both tyre and tire were used in the 15th and 16th centuries, but tire became the settled term in the 17th century and tyre became obsolete. The United States did not adopt the revival of tyre, and tire is the only spelling currently used there and in Canada.

an antique tyre

Alternative forms

• (US, Canada) tire

Pronunciation

• IPA: /taɪə(ɹ)/, X-SAMPA: /taI@(r)/
• Rhymes: -aɪə(r)
• Homophone: tire

Noun

tyre (plural tyres)

1. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK) The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid.

Usage notes

Tyre is one of the few words where Canadian usage prefers the US spelling over the British / Commonwealth spelling.

Related terms

• pneumatic tyre
• spare tyre

Translations

wheel covering

• Afrikaans: tipe (af)
• Albanian: lloji (sq)
• Arabic: إطار هواء (ar), اطار (ar) (’iʈá:r) m
• Asturian: neumáticu (ast) m
• Catalan: neumàtic (ca) m, pneumàtic (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 輪軚 (leon4 taai1), 輪胎 (leon4 toi1)

  Mandarin: 轮胎 (cmn) (lúntāi)

• Czech: pneumatika (cs) f
• Danish: dæk (da)
• Dutch: band (nl) m
• Esperanto: pneŭo (eo)
• Finnish: rengas (fi), (slang) nakki (fi)
• French: pneu (fr) m, pneumatique (fr) m
• Galician: pneumático (gl) m
• German: Reifen (de) m
• Greek: λάστιχο (el) (lárstikho), ρόδας (el) (rόdas), ελαστικό (el) (elastikó) n, επίσωτρο (el) (epísotro) n
• Hebrew: צמיג (he) (tzamíg) m
• Hungarian: gumi (hu), autógumi (hu) (on cars), bicikligumi (hu), kerékpárgumi (hu) (on bycicles)
• Ido: bandajo (io)
• Indonesian: ban (id)
• Italian: gomma (it) m, pneumatico (it) m
• Japanese: タイヤ (ja) (taiya)
• Jèrriais: tyeur m

• Korean: 타이어 (ko) (taieo)
• Lithuanian: padanga (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Pneu (lb) m
• Macedonian: гума (mk) (gúma) f, автомобилска гума (mk) (avtomobílska gúma)
• Malay: tayar (ms)
• Norwegian: dekk (no), bilgummi (no) m
• Polish: opona (pl) f
• Portuguese: pneu (pt) m
• Romanian: pneu (ro) n, cauciuc (ro) n
• Russian: автомобильная шина (ru) (avtomobilʹnaja šina), шина (ru) (šína) f
• Scottish Gaelic: taidhr (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гу̏ма (sh) f

  Roman: gȕma (sh) f

• Slovene: pnevmatika (sl) f, obroč (sl) m
• Spanish: neumático (es) m (especially Chile and Spain - formal usage in other countries), caucho (es) m (Venezuela), cubierta (es) f (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay), goma (es) f (Caribbean Islands), llanta (es) f (Latin America), rueda (es) f (Spain)
• Swahili: gurudumu (sw)
• Swedish: däck (sv)
• Taos: ùlit’áwaną
• Thai: ยางรถยนต์ (th)
• Ukrainian: шина (uk) (šyna)
• Vietnamese: vỏ (vi)

Anagrams

• trey, Trey

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Albanian

Adjective

i tyre m (feminine e tyre, m plural e tyre, f plural e tyre)

1. their

Declension

declension of i tyre

	singular		plural
	masculine	feminine	masculine	feminine
nominative	i tyre	e tyre	e tyre	e tyre
accusative	e tyre	e tyre	e tyre	e tyre
genitive/dative/ablative	të tyre	së tyre	të tyre	të tyre

See also

Albanian possessive adjectives and pronouns

		adjectives			pronouns
		singular	plural		singular	plural
1st person		im	ynë		imi	yni
2nd person		yt	juaj		yti	juaji
3rd person	m	i tij	i tyre		i tiji	i tyri
	f	i saj			i saji
3rd person reflexive		i vet			i veti

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Danish

Noun

tyre c

1. plural indefinite of tyr