Aira
Translingual
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek αἰρα (aira).
Proper noun
Aira f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Poaceae – the hair grasses, native to Europe, Africa, and western Asia.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, monocots, commelinids - clades; Poales - order; Poaceae - family; BOP clade - clade; Pooideae - subfamily; Aveneae - tribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): Lua error in Module:parameters at line 806: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template. - type species; for the numerous species see
Aira on Wikispecies.Wikispecies or
Aira on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
Aira on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Aira on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Aira on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Aira at USDA Plants database
Finnish
Etymology
Variant of Airi.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Aira
- a female given name.
Declension
Inflection of Aira (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Aira | Airat | |
genitive | Airan | Airojen | |
partitive | Airaa | Airoja | |
illative | Airaan | Airoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Aira | Airat | |
accusative | nom. | Aira | Airat |
gen. | Airan | ||
genitive | Airan | Airojen Airain rare | |
partitive | Airaa | Airoja | |
inessive | Airassa | Airoissa | |
elative | Airasta | Airoista | |
illative | Airaan | Airoihin | |
adessive | Airalla | Airoilla | |
ablative | Airalta | Airoilta | |
allative | Airalle | Airoille | |
essive | Airana | Airoina | |
translative | Airaksi | Airoiksi | |
abessive | Airatta | Airoitta | |
instructive | — | Airoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Anagrams
Latvian
Etymology
First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1934. From airene (“ryegrass”), from Airisa as a rendering of the English Iris, or a phonetic coinage.
Proper noun
Aira f
- a female given name.
Related terms
References
Categories:
- Translingual terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Translingual lemmas
- Translingual proper nouns
- mul:Taxonomic names (genus)
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑirɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑirɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish female given names
- Finnish kala-type nominals
- Latvian lemmas
- Latvian proper nouns
- Latvian feminine nouns
- Latvian given names
- Latvian female given names