कीर

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कीर (kīra).

कीर (kīr) m

1. parrot
   • c. 1660 - 1700, ध्रुवदास [dhruvdās], मन-शिक्षा-लीला [man-śikṣā-līlā]:

     मन शिक्षा के सुनत ही, ढर्यौ न नैननि नीर ।
     पाठ भजन ऐसो भयो जैसे पढ़त है कीर ॥

     man śikṣā ke sunat hī, ḍharyau na nainni nīr .
     pāṭh bhajan aiso bhayo jaise paṛhat hai kīr .

     When one hears the "Soul-Instruction", tears cease to flow from the eyes
     if one reads the lesson in the manner of a parrot.

• Rupert Snell (1991) The Hindi Classical Tradition: A Braj Bhāṣā Reader‎^[1], London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “कीर”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

Perhaps related to Old Tamil 𑀓𑀺𑀴𑀺 (kiḷi). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /kiː.ɾɐ/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈkiː.ɾɐ/

कीर • (kīra) stem, m

1. parrot
2. (in the plural) name of the people and of the country of Kashmir

• → Malayalam: കീരം (kīraṁ)
• Sinhalese: කීර (kīra), ගිරවා (girawā)
• → Telugu: కీరము (kīramu)

• Monier William's Sanskrit-English Dictionary, 2nd Ed. 1899