lyre

English

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A lyre

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λύρα (lyra, “lyre, a stringed instrument with a sounding-board formed of the shell of a tortoise”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈlaɪ.ə/
• (US) IPA: /ˈlaɪ.ɚ/, /laɪɹ/
• Rhymes: -aɪə(r)
• Homophones: liar, lier

Noun

lyre (plural lyres)

1. A stringed musical instrument.

Related terms

• Lyra
• lyrebird
• lyrical

Translations

a stringed musical instrument

• Armenian: քնար (hy) (k'nar)
• Basque: lira (eu)
• Catalan: lira f
• Chinese: 里拉 (lǐlā)
• Czech: lyra (cs) f
• Danish: lyre (da) c
• Dutch: lier (nl) f
• Esperanto: liro (eo)
• Estonian: lüüra (et)
• Faroese: lýri (fo) m
• Finnish: lyyra (fi)
• French: lyre (fr) f
• German: Leier (de) f, Lyra (de) f
• Greek: λύρα (lýra) f
• Hiligaynon: árpa
• Hungarian: líra (hu)
• Icelandic: lýra (is) f
• Ido: liro (io)
• Irish: lir (ga) f

• Italian: lira (it) f
• Japanese: ライアー (raiā)
• Latin: lyra (la) f
• Lithuanian: lyra (lt)
• Old English: hearpe (ang)
• Persian: چنگ (fa)
• Polish: lira (pl) f
• Portuguese: lira (pt) f
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: лира (ru) (líra) f
• Serbo-Croatian: lȋra (sh) f
• Slovak: lýra (sk) f
• Slovene: lira (sl) f
• Spanish: lira (es) f
• Swahili: lira (sw), kinubi kidogo (sw)
• Swedish: lyra (sv) c
• Turkish: lir (tr)
• Welsh: telyn gron (cy) f

External links

• lyre in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• lyre in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

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