طر

Arabic

Verb

طِرْ • (ṭir) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of طَارَ (ṭāra)

Gulf Arabic

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Kuwait) IPA^(key): /tˤər/

Verb

طر • (ṭarr) (non-past يطِر (yṭirr))

1. to beg

Derived terms

• طرارة (ṭrāra, “begging”)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Onomatopoeic

Noun

طر • (tır or dır)

1. purr (sound of a cat)

Descendants

• Turkish: tır

See also

• پر (pır)

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “طر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1234