صير

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صير^¹

/sˤaj.ja.ra/

verb صَيَّرَ · ṣayyara · يُصَيِّرُ · تَصْيِير · مُصَيِّر

ditransitive to cause to become, to render, to make صَيَّرَتِ الْبُرُودَةُ الْمَاءَ جَلِيدًا.
Similar: حَوَّلَ, جَعَلَ, قَلَبَ, أَحَالَ

صير^²

/sˤaj.ja.ra/

Where it comes from

From Aramaic צִיר (ṣīr, “the own juice wherein fish is conserved; fish brine”). Also in Hebrew צִיר (ṣīr, “sauce, broth, gravy, brine”). In Classical Syriac instead with unemphatic anlaut: ܣܼܝܪܵܐ (sīrā) used for the sense of small dried fish in the Grecized plural ܣܼܝܪ̈ܲܣ (sīras) or ܣܼܝܪܸ̈ܣ (sīres), hence apparently identical to the “strap” word found in Arabic more usually as سَيْر (sayr) than as صَيْر (ṣayr), referring to fish so small that they would only be apprehended as a “thread”.

noun صِير · ṣīr · الصِّير · صِيرٌ

obsolete brine
obsolete dried and fermented river fish, fry (main ingredient of the spice paste صِحْنَاء (ṣiḥnāʔ))

صير^³

/sˤaj.ja.ra/

noun صَيْر · ṣayr · الصَّيْر · صَيْرٌ

noun from verb, obsolete verbal noun of صَارَ (ṣāra) (form I)

صير^⁴

/sˤaj.ja.ra/

noun صَيْر · ṣayr · صُيُور · الصَّيْر

nonstandard, obsolete nonstandard form of سَيْر (sayr, “strap; antler …”)

In English

brine salt water
render to cause to become

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {صير},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ar/%D8%B5%D9%8A%D8%B1},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}

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