lyre

English

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A lyre

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪ.ə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /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 (kʿnar)
• Basque: lira (eu)
• Catalan: lira f
• Chinese: 里拉 (lǐlā)
• Czech: lyra (cs) f
• Danish: lyre c
• Dutch: lier (nl) f
• Esperanto: liro
• Estonian: lüüra
• Faroese: lýri m
• Finnish: lyyra (fi)
• French: lyre (fr) f
• German: Leier (de) f, Lyra f
• Greek: λύρα (el) f (lýra)
• Hiligaynon: árpa
• Hungarian: líra (hu)
• Icelandic: lýra f
• Ido: liro (io)
• Irish: lir f

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