lira

See also: Lira and líra

English

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian lira, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin lībra (partly via (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Turkish lira, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic لِيرَة (līra), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Maltese lira, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Greek λίρα (líra), and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Hebrew לִירָה, all of which are originally from the Italian). Doublet of livre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪəɹə/
• Rhymes: -ɪəɹə

Noun

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 The former currency of Italy, Malta, San Marino, Cyprus and the Vatican City, superseded by the euro

Noun

lira (plural lirot or liroth or liras)

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 The former currency of Israel, superseded by the sheqel.

Translations

basic unit of currency in Turkey

• Catalan: lira (ca) f
• Czech: lira (cs) f
• Esperanto: liro (eo)
• Faroese: liri m
• Finnish: liira (fi)
• French: livre (fr) f
• Greek: λίρα (el) f (líra)
• Ido: liro (io)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Malay: lira
• Maori: rira
• Navajo: Tʼóok bikéyah bi-lííwa
• Portuguese: lira (pt) f
• Russian: ли́ра (ru) f (líra)
• Spanish: lira (es) f
• Turkish: lira (tr), Türk lirası
• Uyghur: لىرا (lira)

currency of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, former currency of Italy, etc.

• Arabic: لِيرَة f (līra) or لَيْرَة f (layra), لِيرَا f (līrā)
• Belarusian: лі́ра f (líra)
• Bulgarian: ли́ра f (líra)
• Catalan: lira (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 里拉 (zh) (lǐlā)

• Czech: lira (cs) f
• Faroese: liri m
• Finnish: liira (fi)
• French: livre (fr) f, (Italy, Malta) lire (fr) f
• German: Lira f
• Greek: λίρα (el) f (líra)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hebrew: לִירָה (he) f (líra)
• Italian: lira (it)
• Japanese: リラ (rira)
• Korean: 리라 (ko) (rira)
• Malay: lira
• Maltese: lira f
• Portuguese: lira (pt) f
• Russian: ли́ра (ru) f (líra)
• Spanish: lira (es) f
• Turkish: liret (tr) (Italian)
• Ukrainian: лі́ра (uk) f (líra)

See also

• £

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ukrainian ліра (lira).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪəɹə/
• Rhymes: -ɪəɹə

Noun

lira

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

Etymology 3

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin līra (“furrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪɹə/
• Rhymes: -aɪɹə
• Homophones: lyra, Lyra

Noun

lira (plural lirae)

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

Anagrams

• Lair, aril, lair, lari, liar, rail, rial

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Catalan

Etymology 1

Noun

lira f (plural lires)

1. lira

Etymology 2

Noun

lira f (plural lires)

1. lyre

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Czech

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin lībra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪra/
• Rhymes: -ɪra
• Hyphenation: li‧ra
• Homophone: lyra

Noun

lira f

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

Related terms

• libra

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French

Verb

lira

1. third-person singular future of lire

Anagrams

• rail

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.ra/, [ˈl̺iːr̺ä]
• Hyphenation: lì‧ra

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin lībra.

Noun

lira f (plural lire)

1. lira

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin lyra.

Noun

lira f (plural lire)

1. lyre

   Synonym: cetra

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Latin

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From Proto-Italic *loizā, from Proto-Indo-European *lóyseh₂ (“following, track; furrow”), 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”), *liznaną (“learn”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.ra/, [ˈlʲiːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.ra/, [ˈliːrä]

Noun

līra f (genitive līrae); first declension

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

Declension

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 terms

• dēlērātiō
• dēlīritās
• dēlīrus
• dēlīrāmentum
• dēlīrātiō
• dēlīrātor
• dēlīrō
• līrātim
• līrātiō
• līrātus

 

References

• “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.

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lihwizô, *ligwizô (“thigh; groin”). More at lire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈliː.rɑ/

Noun

līra m (nominative plural līran)

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

Declension

līra (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	līra	līran
accusative	līran	līran
genitive	līran	līrena
dative	līran	līrum

Derived terms

• līreht

Related terms

• lēow

Descendants

• Middle English: lire, lyre
  • English: lire

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Polish

lira

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.ra/

Etymology 1

Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra).

Noun

lira f

1. lyre
2. black grouse's tail

Declension

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

Etymology 2

Maltese, Turkish, both from Italian lira, from Latin lībra (“pound”).

Noun

lira f

1. lira (“former currency of Malta”)
2. lira (“the basic unit of currency in Turkey”)

Declension

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

See also

• lir

Further reading

• Template:R:PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology 1

Noun

lira f (plural liras)

1. lyre (a stringed musical instrument)

Etymology 2

Noun

lira f (plural liras)

1. lira (unit of currency)

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin lira, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lȋra f (Cyrillic spelling ли̑ра)

1. lyre

Declension

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

References

• “lira” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /líːra/

Noun

lȋra f

1. lyre (musical instrument)

Inflection

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

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈliɾa/ [ˈli.ɾa]

Etymology 1

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

Noun

lira f (plural liras)

1. lyre

Etymology 2

From Italian lira, from Latin libra.

Noun

lira f (plural liras)

1. lira (former currency of Italy)

Further reading

• Template:R:DRAE 2001

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Swedish

Verb

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

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

Anagrams

• ilar, liar

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Turkish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian lira.

Noun

lira (definite accusative lirayı, plural liralar)

1. Turkish lira.

Declension

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

See also

• Türk lirası
• liret (Italian lira)
• İtalyan lireti