See also: Lira and líra

EnglishEdit

 
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Etymology 1Edit

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.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɪəɹə/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪəɹə

NounEdit

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 The former currency of Italy, Malta, San Marino, Cyprus and the Vatican City, superseded by the euro

NounEdit

lira (plural lirot or liroth or liras)

  1. The former currency of Israel, superseded by the sheqel.
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Etymology 2Edit

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

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NounEdit

lira

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

Etymology 3Edit

From Latin līra (furrow).

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NounEdit

lira (plural lirae)

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

Etymology 4Edit

NounEdit

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.

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CatalanEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Latin libra.

NounEdit

lira f (plural lires)

  1. lira (currency)
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Etymology 2Edit

From Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra), attested from the 15th century.[1]

NounEdit

lira f (plural lires)

  1. lyre (an ancient stringed musical instrument)
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ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ lira”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023

Further readingEdit

CzechEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Italian lira, from Latin lībra.[1]

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NounEdit

lira f

  1. lira (former currency of Italy) [19th c.]
  2. lira (currency of Turkey)
  3. lira (former currency of Israel)

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Related termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ "lira" in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, Leda, 2015, →ISBN, page 381.

Further readingEdit

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

FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

lira

  1. third-person singular future of lire

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ItalianEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

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

Etymology 1Edit

From Latin lībra.

NounEdit

lira f (plural lire)

  1. lira
DescendantsEdit
  • Turkish: lira

Etymology 2Edit

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

NounEdit

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.

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

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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līra f (genitive līrae); first declension[3]

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

DeclensionEdit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative līra līrae
Genitive līrae līrārum
Dative līrae līrīs
Accusative līram līrās
Ablative līrā līrīs
Vocative līra līrae

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • 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
  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001) Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs]‎[1] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 409-410
  3. ^ lira”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Norwegian NynorskEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Doublet of lire.

NounEdit

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 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

NounEdit

lira f

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

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Old EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

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NounEdit

līra m (nominative plural līran)

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

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PolishEdit

 
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lira

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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

NounEdit

lira f

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

Etymology 2Edit

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

NounEdit

lira f

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

Etymology 3Edit

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

NounEdit

lira f

  1. lira (currency of Turkey)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
adjective
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noun

Further readingEdit

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

PortugueseEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from Latin lyra.

NounEdit

lira f (plural liras)

  1. lyre (a stringed musical instrument)

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from Italian lira, from Latin lībra.

NounEdit

lira f (plural liras)

  1. lira (unit of currency)

Serbo-CroatianEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

lȋra f (Cyrillic spelling ли̑ра)

  1. lyre

DeclensionEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • lira” in Hrvatski jezični portal

SloveneEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French lire, from Latin lyra.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

lȋra f

  1. lyre (musical instrument)

InflectionEdit

Feminine, a-stem
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

SpanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈliɾa/ [ˈli.ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -iɾa
  • Syllabification: li‧ra

Etymology 1Edit

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

NounEdit

lira f (plural liras)

  1. lyre
  1. (Mexico, slang) guitar
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

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

NounEdit

lira f (plural liras)

  1. lira (former currency of Italy)

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SwedishEdit

VerbEdit

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

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

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TagalogEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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

PronunciationEdit

  • Hyphenation: li‧ra
  • IPA(key): /ˈliɾa/, [ˈli.ɾɐ]

NounEdit

lira

  1. lyre
See alsoEdit

Etymology 2Edit

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

PronunciationEdit

  • Hyphenation: li‧ra
  • IPA(key): /ˈliɾa/, [ˈli.ɾɐ]

NounEdit

lira

  1. lira (former currency of Italy)

Etymology 3Edit

PronunciationEdit

  • Hyphenation: li‧ra
  • IPA(key): /ˈliɾaʔ/, [ˈli.ɾɐʔ]

NounEdit

lirà

  1. swollen and reddened eyelids
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TurkishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Ottoman Turkish لیره‎, لیرا‎, from Italian lira.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

lira (definite accusative lirayı, plural liralar)

  1. Turkish lira.

DeclensionEdit

Inflection
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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