Mira
See also: Appendix:Variations of "mira"
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Named by the astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1662, from Latin mīrus (“wonderful, surprising”).
Proper noun edit
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 edit
star
Etymology 2 edit
- 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 edit
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 edit
- Mira on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Mira (given name) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams edit
Faroese edit
Proper noun edit
Mira f
- a female given name
Usage notes edit
Matronymics
- son of Mira: Miruson
- daughter of Mira: Mirudóttir
Declension edit
Singular | |
Indefinite | |
Nominative | Mira |
Accusative | Miru |
Dative | Miru |
Genitive | Miru |
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Proper noun edit
Mira
- a female given name, popular from the 1970s to the 1990s
- (astronomy) Mira.
Declension edit
Inflection of Mira (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Mira | Mirat | ||
genitive | Miran | Mirojen | ||
partitive | Miraa | Miroja | ||
illative | Miraan | Miroihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Mira | Mirat | ||
accusative | nom. | Mira | Mirat | |
gen. | Miran | |||
genitive | Miran | Mirojen Mirainrare | ||
partitive | Miraa | Miroja | ||
inessive | Mirassa | Miroissa | ||
elative | Mirasta | Miroista | ||
illative | Miraan | Miroihin | ||
adessive | Miralla | Miroilla | ||
ablative | Miralta | Miroilta | ||
allative | Miralle | Miroille | ||
essive | Mirana | Miroina | ||
translative | Miraksi | Miroiksi | ||
abessive | Miratta | Miroitta | ||
instructive | — | Miroin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics edit
- 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 edit
German edit
Etymology 1 edit
Proper noun edit
Mira m (proper noun, strong, genitive Miras)
- (astronomy) Mira
- 2007 August 16, “Wundersamer Sprinter im All entdeckt”, in Der Spiegel[1]:
- 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".
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Declension edit
Declension of Mira [sg-only, masculine, strong]
Etymology 2 edit
Proper noun edit
Mira f (proper noun, genitive Miras or Mira, plural Miras)
- a female given name
Declension edit
Declension of Mira [feminine]
Further reading edit
- Mira (Stern) on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- Mira (Vorname) on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Italian edit
Proper noun edit
Mira f
Anagrams edit
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Back-formation from Mirosława.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Mira f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Mira
Declension edit
Declension of Mira
Further reading edit
- Mira in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese *Mira, from Celtiberian *mira, from Proto-Celtic *mori (“sea”).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Mira f
- A village, parish, and municipality of the district of Coimbra, Portugal
Derived terms edit
Proper noun edit
Mira m
Derived terms edit
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
A hypocoristic form of Mìrjana, Mìrjam
Proper noun edit
Míra f (Cyrillic spelling Ми́ра)
- a female given name
Declension edit
This entry needs an inflection-table template.
Vilamovian edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Proper noun edit
Mira
- a male given name, equivalent to English Casimir