lira
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
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.
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lira (plural lire or lira or liras)
- The basic unit of currency in Turkey.
- The currency of Lebanon (also pound), Syria (also pound), Jordan (also dinar)
- The former currency of Italy, Malta, San Marino, Cyprus and the Vatican City, superseded by the euro
Noun edit
lira (plural lirot or liroth or liras)
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Etymology 2 edit
From Ukrainian ліра (lira), ultimately related to the Byzantine lyra (Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra)). Doublet of Lyra and lyre.
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lira
- A Ukrainian folk musical instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.
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lira (plural lirae)
- Any of a set of fine ridges on the shells of some molluscs
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lira
- 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.
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Noun edit
lira f (plural lires)
- lira (currency)
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Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra). First attested in the 15th century.[1]
Noun edit
lira f (plural lires)
- lyre (an ancient stringed musical instrument)
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References edit
- ^ “lira”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
Further reading edit
- “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 edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian lira, from Latin lībra.[1]
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Noun edit
lira f
- lira (former currency of Italy) [19th c.]
- lira (currency of Turkey)
- lira (former currency of Israel)
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References edit
- ^ Rejzek, Jiří (2015) “lira”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, page 381
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Audio (file)
Verb edit
lira
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Italian edit
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lira f (plural lire)
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- Turkish: lira
Etymology 2 edit
From Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρᾱ (lúrā).
Noun edit
lira f (plural lire)
- 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.
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *loizā, from Proto-Indo-European *lóyseh₂ (“following, track; furrow”),[1] 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”).[2]
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈliː.ra/, [ˈlʲiːrä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈli.ra/, [ˈliːrä]
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līra f (genitive līrae); first declension[3]
- the earth thrown up between two furrows, a ridge
- (agriculture) furrow
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | līra | līrae |
Genitive | līrae | līrārum |
Dative | līrae | līrīs |
Accusative | līram | līrās |
Ablative | līrā | līrīs |
Vocative | līra | līrae |
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References edit
- “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.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “līra”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 345
- ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 409-410
- ^ “lira”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology 1 edit
Doublet of lire.
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lira m (definite singular liraen, indefinite plural liraar or liraer or lira, definite plural liraane or liraene)
- (numismatics) lira (currency of Malta)
- (numismatics) lira (currency of Turkey)
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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lira f
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- “lira” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *lihwizô, *ligwizô (“thigh; groin”), from Proto-Indo-European *lekʷs-, *lewks- (“groin”). More at lire.
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līra m (nominative plural līran)
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Polish edit
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Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra).
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lira f
- lyre (stringed musical instrument)
- black grouse's tail
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Maltese lira, from Italian lira, from Latin lībra.
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lira f
- (historical) lira (former unit of currency of Malta)
Etymology 3 edit
Borrowed from Turkish lira, from Italian lira, from Latin lībra.
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lira f
- lira (currency of Turkey)
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Portuguese edit
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Noun edit
lira f (plural liras)
- lyre (a stringed musical instrument)
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Italian lira, from Latin lībra.
Noun edit
lira f (plural liras)
- lira (unit of currency)
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra).
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lȋra f (Cyrillic spelling ли̑ра)
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References edit
- “lira” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Slovene edit
Etymology edit
From Old French lire, from Latin lyra.
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lȋra f
- lyre (musical instrument)
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Feminine, a-stem | |||
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nom. sing. | líra | ||
gen. sing. | líre | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
líra | líri | líre |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
líre | lír | lír |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
líri | lírama | líram |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
líro | líri | líre |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
líri | lírah | lírah |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
líro | lírama | lírami |
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra).
Noun edit
lira f (plural liras)
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Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Italian lira, from Latin libra. Doublet of libra.
Noun edit
lira f (plural liras)
- lira (former currency of Italy)
Further reading edit
- “lira”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
Verb edit
lira (present lirar, preterite lirade, supine lirat, imperative lira)
- (colloquial) to play (a sport, an instrument or a game)
Conjugation edit
Active | Passive | |||
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Infinitive | lira | liras | ||
Supine | lirat | lirats | ||
Imperative | lira | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | liren | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | lirar | lirade | liras | lirades |
Ind. plural1 | lira | lirade | liras | lirades |
Subjunctive2 | lire | lirade | lires | lirades |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | lirande | |||
Past participle | lirad | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
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Tagalog edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Spanish lira (“lyre”), from Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra).
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Noun edit
lira (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜇ)
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Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Spanish lira (“lira”), from Latin libra. Doublet of libra.
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lira (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜇ)
- lira (former currency of Italy)
Etymology 3 edit
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lirà (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜇ)
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Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish لیره, لیرا, from Italian lira, from Latin lībra.
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Noun edit
lira (definite accusative lirayı, plural liralar)
- lira (currency of Turkey)
- Türk lirası ― the Turkish lira
- livre, pound
- Mısır lirası ― the Egyptian pound
Declension edit
Inflection | ||
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Nominative | lira | |
Definite accusative | lirayı | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | lira | liralar |
Definite accusative | lirayı | liraları |
Dative | liraya | liralara |
Locative | lirada | liralarda |
Ablative | liradan | liralardan |
Genitive | liranın | liraların |
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- liret (“Italian lira”), İtalyan lireti