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lira

See also: Lira, líra, Líra, liră, lirã, lirą, and Lirą

English

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Etymology 1

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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 arratel, libbra, Libra, libra, litra, litre, livre, and rottol.

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 The former currency of Italy, Malta, San Marino, Cyprus and the Vatican City, superseded by the euro

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lira (plural lirot or liroth or liras)

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 The former currency of Israel, superseded by the sheqel.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

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

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lira

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

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From Latin līra (“furrow”).

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lira (plural lirae)

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

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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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Catalan

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Etymology 1

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From Latin libra.

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lira f (plural lires)

  1. lira (currency)
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Etymology 2

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

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lira f (plural lires)

  1. lyre (an ancient stringed musical instrument)
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  1. ^ “lira”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.

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Czech

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian lira, from Latin lībra.[1]

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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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Declension of lira (hard feminine)
singular plural
nominative lira liry
genitive liry lir
dative liře lirám
accusative liru liry
vocative liro liry
locative liře lirách
instrumental lirou lirami
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  1. ^ 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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  • “lira”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “lira”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

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Verb

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lira

  1. third-person singular future of lire

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Italian

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

Etymology 1

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From Latin lībra.

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lira f (plural lire)

  1. lira
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  • Turkish: lira

Etymology 2

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

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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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Latin

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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

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative līra līrae
genitive līrae līrārum
dative līrae līrīs
accusative līram līrās
ablative līrā līrīs
vocative līra līrae

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References

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  • “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] (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

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Etymology 1

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Doublet of lire.

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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

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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lira f

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

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Old English

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Etymology

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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)

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

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Weak:

singular plural
nominative līra līran
accusative līran līran
genitive līran līrena
dative līran līrum

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Polish

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lira

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈli.ra/
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  • Rhymes: -ira
  • Syllabification: li‧ra

Etymology 1

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Learned borrowing from Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra).

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lira f

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

Etymology 2

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

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lira f

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

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

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lira f

  1. lira (currency of Turkey)
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Declension of lira
singular plural
nominative lira liry
genitive liry lir
dative lirze lirom
accusative lirę liry
instrumental lirą lirami
locative lirze lirach
vocative liro liry
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adjective
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Further reading

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

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Latin lyra.

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lira f (plural liras)

  1. lyre (a stringed musical instrument)

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Borrowed from Italian lira, from Latin lībra.

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lira f (plural liras)

  1. lira (unit of currency)

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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

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

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lȋra f (Cyrillic spelling ли̑ра)

  1. lyre

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Declension of lira
singular plural
nominative lira lire
genitive lire lira
dative liri lirama
accusative liru lire
vocative liro lire
locative liri lirama
instrumental lirom lirama

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  • “lira”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Slovene

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Etymology

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From Old French lire, from Latin lyra.

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lȋra f

  1. lyre (musical instrument)

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 The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
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

Spanish

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

Etymology 1

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

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lira f (plural liras)

  1. lyre
  2. (Mexico, slang) guitar
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Etymology 2

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

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lira f (plural liras)

  1. lira (former currency of Italy)

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Swedish

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

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

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Conjugation of lira (weak)
active passive
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
present participle lirande
past participle lirad

1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

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Etymology 1

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

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lira (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜇ)

  1. lyre
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Etymology 2

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

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lira (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜇ)

  1. lira (former currency of Italy)

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lirà (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜇ)

  1. swollen and reddened eyelids
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Turkish

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Etymology

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

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  • IPA(key): [l̠ʲí.ɾä]
  • Hyphenation: li‧ra

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lira (definite accusative lirayı, plural liralar)

  1. lira (currency of Turkey)
    Türk lirası ― the Turkish lira
  2. livre, pound
    Mısır lirası ― the Egyptian pound

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Declension of lira
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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