tiret

French

Etymology

From tirer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.ʁɛ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

tiret m (plural tirets)

1. dash (punctuation)
2. (dated) a string used to tie papers together

Descendants

• → Persian: خط تیره
• → Russian: тире́ (tiré)
• → Turkish: tire

Further reading

• “tiret”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• titre, titré

Scots

Verb

tiret

1. simple past tense and past participle of tire