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English
Etymology 1
Named by the astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1662, from Latin mīrus (“wonderful, surprising”).
Proper noun
Mira
- (astronomy) A binary star in the constellation Cetus, Omicron (ο) Ceti. The system contains a variable red giant and a white dwarf. Its brightness varies from a magnitude 2 at its brightest to a magnitude 10 at its dimmest.
- Synonym: Omicron Ceti
- Hypernym: binary star
2008, Helge Kragh, The Moon that Wasn't: The Saga of Venus' Spurious Satellite, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 80:The favoured explanation, adopted by Maraldi, was based on the assumption that the star was rotating and composed of two different parts, a bright and a dark region; if so, it might only be visible when the bright region turned towards Earth. Whatever the explanation, Mira had puzzled the astronomers because of its random character and the irregular periods between its observations.
Translations
Etymology 2
- Borrowed from Hindi मीरा (mīrā), name of a 16th century Indian poetess, also affectionately called Mirabai.
- As occasionally borne by anglophones in the West, the name may also be borrowed from Slavic, or be a short form of Miranda.
Proper noun
Mira
- Mirabai, a 16th-century Indian poetess.
- (by extension) A female given name from India.
1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Penguin Books, published 1977, →ISBN, page 366:Dorothy's daughters were of exceptional beauty and the sisters could complain only that the Hindi names Dorothy had chosen - Mira, Leela, Lena - were meant to pass as Western ones.
Further reading
Anagrams
- Rima, raim, rami, AMIR, Mari, Amir, RIMA, Irma, amir, mair, rima, Rami, RAIM, Mair
Faroese
Proper noun
Mira f
- a female given name
Usage notes
Matronymics
- son of Mira: Miruson
- daughter of Mira: Mirudóttir
Declension
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Nominative
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Mira
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Accusative
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Miru
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Dative
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Miru
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Genitive
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Miru
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Finnish
Etymology
A 20th century invention, borrowed from the Slavic diminutive of female names containing the element *mirъ (“peace”); also explained as a short form of Mirjam, or derived from the Latin name of the star.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Mira
- a female given name, popular from the 1970s to the 1990s
- (astronomy) Mira.
Declension
Statistics
- Mira is the 112th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 7,082 female individuals (and as a middle name to 664 more), and also belongs to 6 male individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Anagrams
German
Etymology 1
Proper noun
Mira m (proper noun, strong, genitive Miras)
- (astronomy) Mira
2007 August 16, “Wundersamer Sprinter im All entdeckt”, in Der Spiegel:Astronomen haben an dem schon seit 400 Jahren bekannten Stern Mira eine überraschende Entdeckung gemacht: Der Himmelskörper im Sternbild Walfisch zieht einen kometenartigen Schweif hinter sich her. Er ist mit 13 Lichtjahren mehrere tausend Mal so lang wie unser Sonnensystem. Eine solche Beobachtung sei bisher noch nie gelungen, schreibt das Team um Mark Seibert von der Carnegie Institution im Fachblatt "Nature".- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Mira f (proper noun, genitive Miras or Mira, plural Miras)
- a female given name
Declension
Further reading
Italian
Proper noun
Mira f
- A village in Venezia, Veneto
Anagrams
Polish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Clipping of Mirosława.
Proper noun
Mira f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Mira
Declension
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Proper noun
Mira m pers
- a male surname
Declension
Proper noun
Mira f
- a female surname
Declension
Further reading
- Mira in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- “Mira”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese *Mira, from Celtiberian *mira, from Proto-Celtic *mori (“sea”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Mira f
- A village, parish, and municipality of the district of Coimbra, Portugal
Derived terms
Proper noun
Mira m
- Mira (a river in Alentejo, Portugal)
Derived terms
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
A hypocoristic form of Mìrjana, Mìrjam
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Míra f (Cyrillic spelling Ми́ра)
- a female given name
Declension
Further reading
- “Mira”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2024
Vilamovian
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Mira
- a male given name, equivalent to English Casimir