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Not used in plural, but there is a related second-declension plural noun πῠρᾰ́(purá, “watchfires”); distinguish this from the first-declension noun πῠρᾱ́(purā́, “funeral pyre”).
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1260-1
πῦρ - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.