lira

English

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lira

Wikipedia

Etymology 1

From Italian lira, from Latin lībra (partly via Turkish lira, Arabic لِيرَة (līra), Maltese lira, Greek λίρα (líra), and Hebrew לִירָה (“lirá”), all of which are originally from the Italian). Doublet of libra and livre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪəɹə/

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• Rhymes: -ɪəɹə

Noun

lira (plural lire or lira or liras)

1. The basic unit of currency in Turkey.
2. The currency of Lebanon (also pound), Syria (also pound), Jordan (also dinar)
3. The former currency of Italy, Malta, San Marino, Cyprus and the Vatican City, superseded by the euro

Noun

lira (plural lirot or liroth or liras)

1. The former currency of Israel, superseded by the sheqel.

Translations

See also

• ₺
• £

Etymology 2

From Ukrainian ліра (lira), ultimately related to the Byzantine lyra (Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra)). Doublet of Lyra and lyre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪəɹə/
• Rhymes: -ɪəɹə

Noun

lira

1. A Ukrainian folk musical instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.

Etymology 3

From Latin līra (“furrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪɹə/
• Rhymes: -aɪɹə
• Homophones: lyra, Lyra

Noun

lira (plural lirae)

1. Any of a set of fine ridges on the shells of some molluscs

Etymology 4

Noun

lira

1. Alternative form of lyra
   • 1940, Curt Sachs, The History of Musical Instruments, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., page 275:

     The first evidence of the Byzantine lira is in a Persian literary source of the ninth century.

   • 1976, Musicological Annual, page 118:

     Some instruments comprise types which are found, more or less unchanged, also with various nations and periods (recorder, shawm), whereas others belong to smaller regions (byzantine lira, rectangular harp) or only to the territory of Serbia and Macedonia (drums, larger shawms, especially in the Turkish period).

   • 1977, Laurence Wright, “The Medieval Gittern and Citole: A Case of Mistaken Identity”, in The Galpin Society Journal:

     Being an approximate synonym of cithara, the word lyra is most often applied to the harp, but one also finds it interpreted as the Germanic lyre, Byzantine lira (equated in turn with the Arabic rebab), hurdy-gurdy, citole or gittern, lute, etc.

Anagrams

• Lair, aril, lair, lari, liar, rail, rial

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)
• Rhymes: -iɾa

Etymology 1

From Latin libra.

Noun

lira f (plural lires)

1. lira (currency)

Related terms

• lliura

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra). First attested in the 15th century.

Noun

lira f (plural lires)

1. lyre (an ancient stringed musical instrument)

Related terms

• líric
• lírica

References

Further reading

• “lira” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “lira” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “lira” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

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lira

Wikipedia ^cs

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian lira, from Latin lībra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ɪra
• Hyphenation: li‧ra
• Homophone: lyra

Noun

lira f

1. lira (former currency of Italy)
2. lira (currency of Turkey)
3. lira (former currency of Israel)

Declension

Related terms

References

Further reading

• lira in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• lira in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

lira

1. third-person singular future of lire

Anagrams

• rail

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

lira

Wikipedia ^it

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.ra/
• Rhymes: -ira
• Hyphenation: lì‧ra

Etymology 1

From Latin lībra.

Noun

lira f (plural lire)

1. lira

Descendants

• Turkish: lira

Etymology 2

From Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρᾱ (lúrā).

Noun

lira f (plural lire)

1. lyre

   Synonym: cetra

   • 1959, Indro Montanelli, “Capitolo tredicesimo: Licurgo [Thirteenth Chapter: Lykourgos]”, in Storia dei Greci [History of the Greeks], 39th edition, Milan, published 1973, page 119:

     Dopo Terpandro venne Timoteo, che tentò di perfezionare la lira portandone le corde da sette a undici.

     After Terpander came Timotheus, who tried to perfect the lyre increasing the number of its strings from seven to eleven.

Anagrams

• Arli, lari

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *loizā, from Proto-Indo-European *lóyseh₂ (“following, track; furrow”), from *leys- (“track, furrow, trace, trail”).

Cognate with Oscan feminine ablative plural 𐌋𐌖𐌉𐌔𐌀𐌓𐌉𐌚𐌔 (luisarifs, the name of a month, perhaps "in which the furrows are drawn"), Old High German leisa (“track”) (German Gleis), Old Church Slavonic лѣха (lěxa, “field bed, furrow”), Old Prussian lyso (“field bed”), Proto-Germanic *lizaną (“to know, understand”), *laizijaną (“teach”), *liʀnōn (“learn”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.ra/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.ra/,

Noun

līra f (genitive līrae); first declension

1. the earth thrown up between two furrows, a ridge
2. (agriculture) furrow

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

References

• “lira”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lira 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)
• lira in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Doublet of lire.

Noun

lira m (definite singular liraen, indefinite plural liraar or liraer or lira, definite plural liraane or liraene)

1. (numismatics) lira (currency of Malta)
2. (numismatics) lira (currency of Turkey)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

lira f

1. definite singular of lire
2. definite singular of lire

References

• “lira” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lihwizô, *ligwizô (“thigh; groin”), from Proto-Indo-European *lekʷs-, *lewks- (“groin”). More at lire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈliː.rɑ/

Noun

līra m (nominative plural līran)

1. fleshy part of the body without fat or bone; brawn; muscle

Declension

Derived terms

• līreht

Related terms

• lēow

Descendants

• Middle English: lire, lyre
  • English: lire

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

lira

Wikipedia ^pl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ira
• Syllabification: li‧ra

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra).

Noun

lira f

1. lyre (stringed musical instrument)
2. black grouse's tail

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Maltese lira, from Italian lira, from Latin lībra.

Noun

lira f

1. (historical) lira (former unit of currency of Malta)

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Turkish lira, from Italian lira, from Latin lībra.

Noun

lira f

1. lira (currency of Turkey)

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• lira in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• lira in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin lyra.

Noun

lira f (plural liras)

1. lyre (a stringed musical instrument)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian lira, from Latin lībra.

Noun

lira f (plural liras)

1. lira (unit of currency)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lîːra/
• Hyphenation: li‧ra

Noun

lȋra f (Cyrillic spelling ли̑ра)

1. lyre

Declension

References

• “lira” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovene

Etymology

From Old French lire, from Latin lyra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /líːra/

Noun

lȋra f

1. lyre (musical instrument)

Inflection

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈliɾa/
• Rhymes: -iɾa
• Syllabification: li‧ra

Etymology 1

From Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra).

Noun

lira f (plural liras)

1. lyre
2. (Mexico, slang) guitar

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian lira, from Latin libra. Doublet of libra.

Noun

lira f (plural liras)

1. lira (former currency of Italy)

Further reading

• “lira”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Verb

lira (present lirar, preterite lirade, supine lirat, imperative lira)

1. (colloquial) to play (a sport, an instrument or a game)

Conjugation

Related terms

• lir

Anagrams

• ilar, liar

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish lira (“lyre”), from Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈliɾa/,
• Hyphenation: li‧ra

Noun

lira (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜇ)

1. lyre

See also

• kudyapi

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish lira (“lira”), from Latin libra. Doublet of libra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈliɾa/,
• Hyphenation: li‧ra

Noun

lira (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜇ)

1. lira (former currency of Italy)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈliɾaʔ/,
• Hyphenation: li‧ra

Noun

lirà (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜇ)

1. swollen and reddened eyelids

Derived terms

• lirain

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish لیره, لیرا, from Italian lira, from Latin lībra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: li‧ra

Noun

lira (definite accusative lirayı, plural liralar)

1. lira (currency of Turkey)

   Türk lirası ― the Turkish lira

2. livre, pound

   Mısır lirası ― the Egyptian pound

Declension

Related terms

• liralık

See also

• liret (“Italian lira”), İtalyan lireti