Zir

//zɪɹ// det, noun, pron

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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
  1. 1
    Gender-neutral third-person singular accusative (object) pronoun, equivalent to singular them and coordinate with him and her. gender-neutral, nonstandard, objective, rare, singular, third-person

    "However, it soon became very lonely as none of Alice’s school friends could see zir anymore and they soon forgot all about zir."

Determiner
  1. 1
    Belonging to zir, gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, equivalent to singular their and coordinate with his and her. nonstandard, rare

    "… 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’ …"

Synonyms

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hirkasreze

Example

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"Zir jumped out of his comfortable bed."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Arabic زِير (zīr).

Etymology 2

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

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