hira

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Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish girar (“to turn”).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: hi‧ra
  • IPA(key): /hiˈɾa/

Verb

hirá

  1. to alter
    Synonyms: bago, bag-o

Derived terms

Japanese

Romanization

hira

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ひら

Latin

Etymology

Has been connected to haruspex, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerH-, but per De Vaan this can only be done by assuming *hēra with a Sabellic or rustic development to hīra and assigns no etymology.[1]

Noun

hīra f (genitive hīrae); first declension

  1. (anatomy) empty gut

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative hīra hīrae
genitive hīrae hīrārum
dative hīrae hīrīs
accusative hīram hīrās
ablative hīrā hīrīs
vocative hīra hīrae

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “hīra”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 285-286

Further reading

  • “hira”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • hira in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • “hira”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Malagasy

Noun

hira

  1. music

Old English

Pronoun

hira

  1. Alternative form of heora: their, of them

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish girar (“to turn”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

hirá (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜇ)

  1. confused; puzzled; perplexed; distracted
    Synonyms: lito, tuliro, gusot, hilo, aligutgot, gulo, lingaw, liso

Noun

hirá (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜇ)

  1. sudden distraction or confusion of the mind
  2. slip or error caused by distraction
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish jira (“picnic”).

Pronunciation

Noun

hira (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜇ)

  1. picnic; outing
    Synonym: piknik
See also

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Noun

hirâ (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜇ)

  1. (meteorology) decrease in water; subsidence of a flood

Anagrams

Tetum

Etymology

From *pira, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pija. Compare Cebuano pira.

Pronoun

hira

  1. how many
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