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zir

UK/zɪə(ɹ)/US/zɪɹ/

zir noun: a large clay jug for storing water, common in Egypt and the Sudan since ancient times.

zir: a large clay jug for storing water, common in Egypt and the Sudan since ancient times
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Noun

zir (plural zirs)

  1. A large clay jug for storing water, common in Egypt and the Sudan since ancient times.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:zir.

Pronoun

zir (third-person singular, gender-neutral, objective case, reflexive hirself)

  1. (gender-neutral, nonstandard, objective, rare, singular, third-person) Gender-neutral third-person singular accusative (object) pronoun, equivalent to singular them and coordinate with him and her.
    • However, it soon became very lonely as none of Alice’s school friends could see zir anymore and they soon forgot all about zir.2002, Lynsey Calderwood, Cracked: Recovering After Traumatic Brain Injury, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 155
    Synonyms:
    hir

Determiner

zir

  1. (nonstandard, rare) Belonging to zir, gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, equivalent to singular their and coordinate with his and her.
    • … just when it seemed like zie was beginning to get a handle on zir teapot and form normal relationships – although one could hardly call zir twice-weekly sexual encounters with the March Hare ‘normal’ …2002, Lynsey Calderwood, Cracked: Recovering After Traumatic Brain Injury, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 155

Synonyms of zir

Forms of zir

Noun
pluralzirs
alternative formzeer
Pronoun
reflexivehirself

Origin of zir

From Arabic زِير (zīr).

Blend of z (“gender-neutral (as in ze)”) + i (“him/his”) + r (“her”).

Words formed from zir

Words that rhyme with zir

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Questions about zir

What does zir mean?
Zir means a large clay jug for storing water, common in Egypt and the Sudan since ancient times.
What part of speech is zir?
Zir can be a noun, a pronoun or a determiner.
How do you pronounce zir?
Zir is pronounced /zɪɹ/ (US).
What is the plural of zir?
The plural of zir is zirs.

Words near zir in the dictionary

  1. zipwiring
  2. ziqqurat
  3. ziqqurats
  4. ziqqurrat
  5. ziqqurrats
  6. zir
  7. zira
  8. Zirak
  9. Ziraks
  10. ziraleet
  11. ziraleets

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: zir (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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