Pir

Pir or PIR may refer to:

Places

• Pir, Kerman, Iran, a village
• Pir, Satu Mare, Romania, a commune

Religion

• Pir (Sufism), a Sufi teacher or spiritual leader
• Pir (Zoroastrianism), a pilgrimage site in Persia, typically Zoroastrian

People

• Pir of the Britons (fl. 125 BC), legendary king of the Britons, according to Geoffrey of Monmouth
• Khan Jahan Lodi (died 1631), originally named Pir Khan, Afghan noble who rebelled against the Mughal Empire
• Ziya Pir (born 1970), Turkish entrepreneur and politician

Science and technology

• PIR (gene), for a human protein that is a possible transcriptional coregulator
• Parrot intermediate representation, one of the two assembly languages for the Parrot virtual machine
• Partners in Research, Canadian bio-medical research charity
• Passive infrared sensor, detects infrared emission
• Peak information rate, a burstable rate set on routers and switches that allow throughput overhead
• Polyisocyanurate, a plastic used for thermal insulation
• Private information retrieval, a protocol for retrieving data without revealing what was retrieved
• Protein Information Resource, database and bioinformatics resource
• Public Interest Registry, manages .org Internet domain

Other

• "Pir" (song), a song by Prakash Saput
• Pacific Imperial Railroad, a defunct railway company in California
• Performance Index Rating, a statistical formula in basketball
• Philadelphia International Records, a record company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Philosophy in Review, an academic journal
• Phoenix International Raceway, Avondale, Arizona
• Pittsburgh Industrial Railroad, reporting mark
• Portland International Raceway, Portland, Oregon
• Pre-Islamic recent period, an archaeological assemblage in the Persian Gulf
• Prosopographia Imperii Romani, a prosopographical directory of notable Romans from the Imperial Age
• Parachute Infantry Regiment, an airborne infantry unit of the United States Army
• Pierre Regional Airport, South Dakota, United States (IATA code: PIR)
• PIR, NYSE symbol for Texas-based retailer Pier 1 Imports

See also

• Sayyid Shah Mardan Shah-II (1928–2012), known as Pir of Pagaro VII, Sufi spiritual leader and Pakistani politician
• Sibghatullah Shah Rashdi III (born 1956), known as Pir of Pagaro VIII, Pakistani politician
• Pir Baba (c. 1502–c. 1583), Sufi Pir
• Bāyazīd Khān Ansārī (c. 1525–1585), commonly known as Pir Roshan, Pashtun warrior-poet and Sufi Pir
• Pir Sadardin, fourteenth-century Shia Ismaili Da'i
• Hasan Pir, 14th century Taiyabi Ismaili saint in India
• Pirs (disambiguation)