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noun

A male parent: father. Informal dad, daddy, pa, papa, pappy², pop². Slang old man. See kin.

verb

1. To be the biological father of: beget, breed, father, get, procreate. See kin.
2. To cause to come into existence: beget, breed, create, engender, father, hatch, make, originate, parent, procreate, produce, spawn. Idioms: givebirthriseto. See make/unmake.

Male parent.

• confirmed s. — one that has been proven to have good fertility.
• s. evaluation — in farm animals, the estimation of the breeding value of a male by progeny testing.
• s.-family average — the average performance of the half-sib family of which the individual is a member.
• s. line — characteristics contributed to the offspring of a cross mating by the sire.
• s. verification — verifying that a stated sire is indeed a parent by the use of a paternity testing technique.

For a list of words related to sire, see:

• Animal Types and Parts - sire: male parent of any quadruped, esp. a horse
• Kinship and Ancestry - sire: father; male ancestor or progenitor
• Pregnancy and Birth - sire: (vb) beget as father
• Names and Relationships - sire: male ancestor
• Titles of Rank - sire: man of rank or authority; lord; sovereign
• Ranching and Animal Husbandry - sire: male parent of four-legged animal, esp. horse; (vb) father a horse
• Horse and Dog Racing
• Titles and Honorifics

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - fader, herre, konge
v. tr. - avle

Français (French)
n. - Sire, père (animal), Sire (arch), seigneur
v. tr. - engendrer

Deutsch (German)
n. - Vater, Ahnherr, Vatertier
v. - zeugen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - μεγαλειότατος, (απαρχ.) γεννήτορας, (για ζώα) πατέρας
v. - (για ζώα) γεννώ, (μτφ.) διεκδικώ την πατρότητα

Italiano (Italian)
Sire

Português (Portuguese)
n. - genitor (m), garanhão (m), majestade (voc.)
v. - procriar

Русский (Russian)
отец

ваше величество

Español (Spanish)
n. - Majestad, mi Señor
v. tr. - engendrar (hablando de animales)

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - fader (om djur)
v. - vara fallen efter

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
陛下, 父, 殿下, 生殖, 创作

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 陛下, 父, 殿下
v. tr. - 生殖, 創作

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 폐하, 조상, (짐승의) 아비
v. tr. - (수말이 새끼를) 낳게 하다, 창시하다, (책을) 서술하다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 雄親, 祖先
v. - 男親としてつくる, 創始する

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מוליד, אב, אב קדמון, הוד מלכותך‬
v. tr. - ‮הוליד, היה הורה של‬

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