The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that the word derives from attire, while other sources suggest a connection with the verb to tie.

• (British) IPA: /taɪə(ɹ)/

tyre (plural tyres) (British spelling, Irish, most current and former Commonwealth nations spelling)

1. The ring-shaped protective covering around a wheel which is usually made of rubber or plastic composite and is either pneumatic or solid.

   pneumatic tyres

   runflat tyres

2. The metal#Adjective rim, or metal covering on a rim, of a (wooden or metal) wheel, usually of steel or formerly wrought iron, as found on (horse-drawn or railway) carriages and wagons and on locomotives.

   Coordinate term: strakes

   iron tyres for the coach and iron shoes for the horse

   tyres and rails of steel, and every axle with roller bearings

• French: pneu, pneumatique
• German: Reifen
• Italian: gomma, pneumatico
• Portuguese: pneu
• Russian: автомоби́льная ши́на
• Spanish: neumático (especially Chile and Spain - formal usage in other countries), caucho (Venezuela), cubierta (Argentina), goma (Caribbean Islands), llanta (Latin America), rueda (Spain)

tyre (tyres, present participle tyring; simple past and past participle tyred)

1. (transitive) To fit tyres to (a vehicle).

Borrowed from Tamil தயிர், itself from Sanskrit दधि.

tyre (uncountable)

1. (India) Curdled milk.

Possibly a shortening of attire.

tyre (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Attire.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗:

     And feeble nature cloth'd with fleshly tyre

tyre (tyres, present participle tyring; simple past and past participle tyred)

1. (obsolete) To adorn.

From Latin Tyrus, from Ancient Greek Τύρος, from Phoenician 𐤑𐤓 (), after the rocky formation on which the town was originally built.

• (British) IPA: /ˈtaɪə(ɹ)/

1. (historical) A former city in Lebanon, a major port on the Levantine Sea that was a city-state in Phoenicia in antiquity and the capital in Jerusalem during the Middle Ages.

• Tyrian

• French: Tyr
• German: Tyrus, Tyros
• Italian: Tiro
• Portuguese: Tiro
• Russian: Тир
• Spanish: Tiro

1. Surname
2. A male given name