KIR, Kir or kir may refer to:

Biology

Inward-rectifier potassium channel Inward-rectifier potassium channels (Kir, IRK) are a specific lipid-gated subset of potassium channels. To date, seven subfamilies have been identified in various mammalian cell types, plants, and bacteria. They are activated by phosphatidylinos ...

K_ir * Killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptor, a receptor protein expressed on the surface of natural killer cells and some T-cells

Bodies of water

Kir (river) The Kir ( sq, Kir or ''Kiri'') is a river in northern Albania that first flows south-southwest and then southwest out of the North Albanian Alps and enters a distributary of the Drin just below Shkodër. In the upper reaches the river cuts the ...

, in northern Albania *

Kir Lake Kir Lake (French: ''Lac Kir'') is an artificial lake located south west of Dijon, France. Traversed by the Ouche, it was completed in 1964 and named after Félix Kir Canon Félix Kir (22 January 1876 - 26 April 1968) was a French Catholic ...

, near Dijon, France

People

* Kir Fard, Armenian nobleman of the 12th–13th centuries *

Kir Nesis Kir Nazimovich Nesis (9 January 1934 – 8 January 2003) was a Russian marine biologist and malacologist, specialising in cephalopods. Early life and education Nesis was born in Moscow on 9 January 1934 to an intellectual family, his father was an ...

(1934–2003), Russian biologist *

Kir Bulychev Kir Bulychev (russian: Кир Булычёв ''Kir Bulychyov 18 October 1934 – 5 September 2003) is a pen name of Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko (И́горь Все́володович Може́йко), a Soviet Russian science fiction writer, ...

, Russian writer *

Félix Kir Canon Félix Kir (22 January 1876 - 26 April 1968) was a French Catholic priest, resistance fighter and politician. Life He was born at Alise-Sainte-Reine on the Côte-d'Or. He entered a small seminary at Plombières-lès-Dijon in 1891 and w ...

(1876–1968), priest in the French Resistance *Kir, a character in '' Detective Conan''

Places

*Republic of

Kiribati Kiribati (), officially the Republic of Kiribati ( gil, ibaberikiKiribati),Kiribati
''The Wor ...

in the central Pacific (ISO code: KIR) * Kir of Moab, biblical stronghold * Land of Kir, biblical location

Transport

* Katihar Junction railway station, Bihar; station code KIR *

Kerry Airport Kerry Airport ( gle, Aerfort Chiarraí; ), often called Farranfore Airport, is an international airport in Farranfore, County Kerry, Ireland. It is north of the Ring of Kerry and southeast of the county's capital Tralee. Passenger services ar ...

, Ireland (IATA code: KIR) * Kirkby railway station, Merseyside, England; National Rail station code KIR

Other

* Kir (cocktail), alcoholic beverage *

Kyrgyz language Kyrgyz (; autonym: , tr. ''Kyrgyz tili'', ) is a Turkic language of the Kipchak branch spoken in Central Asia. Kyrgyz is the official language of Kyrgyzstan and a significant minority language in the Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture in X ...