sira

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sira"

Languages (23)

English

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English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic سِيرَة (sīra).

Noun

sira (plural siras)

1. (Islam) A traditional Muslim biography of Muhammad.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Sanskrit शिरा (śirā).

Noun

sira

1. (Ayurvedic medicine) A blood vessel

See also

• khwaja sira (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

• airs, rais, Rias, RISA, Risa, RIAs, IRAs, Isar, aris, Sari, sari, rias, IRAS

Acehnese

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *qasiRa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sira/

Noun

sira

1. salt

Bambara

Noun

sira

1. baobab

Brunei Malay

Etymology

Cognate with Malagasy sira.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sira/
• Hyphenation: si‧ra

Noun

sira

1. salt (sodium chloride)

   Synonym: garam

Cebuano

Etymology 1

From Spanish cierra, cerrar, from Late Latin serāre.

Verb

sira

1. to close; to shut

Noun

sira

1. a door

Etymology 2

Compare Tagalog sira.

Noun

sira

1. a venereal disease

Central Bikol

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *sidaq (doublet of *sədaq). Compare Cebuano & Tagalog isda and Maranao seda'.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siˈɾaʔ/ [siˈɾaʔ]
• Hyphenation: si‧ra

Noun

sirâ (Basahan spelling ᜐᜒᜍ)

1. fish

   Synonym: isda

   Masiram an sira digdi.

   The fish here is delicious.

Derived terms

• isira
• magsira
• panira
• parasira
• siraan

See also

• sigtok

Cornish

Alternative forms

• syra

Etymology

Borrowed from English sir. Doublet of syr (“sir”).

Noun

sira m (plural sirys)

1. sire, father

   Synonym: tas

Derived terms

• sira da (“stepfather”)
• sira wynn (“grandfather”)

See also

• dama (“dame, mother”)

East Miraya Bikol

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *sədaq.

Noun

sirâ

1. fish

Ibanag

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *sədaq.

Noun

sira

1. fish

Javanese

Romanization

sira

1. romanization of ꦱꦶꦫ

Karao

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *sədaq.

Noun

sira

1. dish eaten with rice

Masbate Sorsogon

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *sədaq.

Noun

sirà

1. fish

Old Javanese

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *si ida. Compare Tagalog sila, Tetum sira (“they”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.ra/
• Rhymes: -ra
• Hyphenation: si‧ra

Pronoun

sira

1. (in kakawin, kidung, and parwa) they (third person personal pronoun)
2. (in kidung) you (second person personal pronoun)

Derived terms

• anira
• anirani
• asira-sira
• asira-siran
• asiran
• māsira
• āsira

Descendants

• > Javanese: ꦱꦶꦫ (sira) (inherited)
• Old Sundanese: sira

Further reading

• "sira" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Old Sundanese

Etymology

borrowed from Old Javanese sira

Pronoun

sira

1. they (third person personal pronoun)

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀲𑀺𑀭 (Brahmi script)
• सिर (Devanagari script)
• সির (Bengali script)
• සිර (Sinhalese script)
• သိရ (Burmese script)
• สิร or สิระ (Thai script)
• ᩈᩥᩁ (Tai Tham script)
• ສິຣ or ສິຣະ (Lao script)
• សិរ (Khmer script)
• 𑄥𑄨𑄢 (Chakma script)

Noun

sira

1. vocative singular of siras

Pangasinan

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *sidáq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siˈra/

Noun

sira

1. fish

Phuthi

Noun

síra class 7 (plural tíra class 8)

1. enemy

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

sira (Cyrillic spelling сира)

1. genitive singular of sir

Sicilian

Etymology

From Late Latin sēra, from ellipsis of Latin sēra diēs, from sērus (“late”). Compare Italian sera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiɾa/
• Hyphenation: sì‧ra

Noun

sira f (plural siri)

1. evening

Derived terms

• bona sira

See also

• matina
• notti
• pumiriggiu

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from German zieren.

Verb

sira (present sirar, preterite sirade, supine sirat, imperative sira)

1. decorate

Conjugation

Conjugation of sira (weak)

	active		passive
infinitive	sira		siras
supine	sirat		sirats
imperative	sira		—
imper. plural1	siren		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	sirar	sirade	siras	sirades
ind. plural1	sira	sirade	siras	sirades
subjunctive2	sire	sirade	sires	sirades
present participle		sirande
past participle		sirad

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

Derived terms

• sirjärn
• sirning
• utsira

Related terms

• sirat
• sirlig

References

• “sira”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “sira”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “sira”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• sira in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Tagalog

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *siraq (“to split open”). Compare Kapampangan sira. Possibly also from Sanskrit छिद्र (chidra, “hole, opening, defect, flaw”). Compare Malay cedera.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈsiɾaʔ/ [ˈsiː.ɾɐʔ] (noun)
    • Rhymes: -iɾaʔ
  • IPA^(key): /siˈɾaʔ/ [sɪˈɾaʔ] (adjective)
    • Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: si‧ra

Noun

sirà (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜇ)

1. damage; tear; rupture; defect; break

   Synonyms: (tear) punit, (of solid and brittle objects) basag, lamat

2. decay; putrefaction; rotting

   Synonyms: bulok, panis, pagkabulok, pagkapanis

3. breaking; damaging; tearing; damaging

   Synonyms: giba, paggiba, wasak, pagwasak, basag, pagbasag, punit, pagpunit

4. breaking; surpassing (of a record)
5. defamation; calumny; slander

   Synonym: paninirang-puri

Derived terms

• di-masisira
• kasiraan
• kasiraan ng ulo
• kasiraang-puri
• magkasira
• makasira
• makasira ng loob
• makipagkasira
• makipagsira
• manira
• manirang-puri
• mapanira
• mapanirang-puri
• masira
• masiraan
• masiraan ng bait
• masiraan ng isip
• masiraan ng loob
• masiraan ng tuktok
• masiraan ng ulo
• may-sira
• nakasisira
• nakasisirang-puri
• nasira
• pagkakasira
• pagkasira
• pagkasira ng loob
• pagkasira-sira
• pagkasirain
• pagsira
• pagsira ng loob
• paninira
• paninirang-loob
• paninirang-puri
• sira ang loob
• sira ang tuktok
• sira-sira
• sira-ulo
• siraan ng puri
• sirain
• sirain ang loob
• sirain ang puri
• sirang plaka
• sirang ulo
• sirang-sira
• sumira
• sumira ng loob
• walang-sira

See also

• talusira

Adjective

sirâ (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜇ)

1. broken; damaged

   Synonyms: (of solid and brittle objects) basag, (of solid and brittle objects) nabasag

2. destroyed; ruined

   Synonyms: giba, nagiba, wasak, winasak

3. out-of-order

   Synonym: may-depekto

4. rotten; spoiled; decayed

   Synonyms: bulok, panis, (Rizal) hampok

5. foiled; messed up; spoiled

   Synonyms: bigo, nabigo

6. (colloquial) short for sira-ulo (“insane; lunatic; mentally ill”)

   Synonyms: loko-loko, kulang-kulang, sinto-sinto

7. broken; surpassed (of a record)

Anagrams

• iras, isra, sari

Tetum

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *si ida. Compare Tagalog sila.

Pronoun

sira

1. they

Yogad

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *si ida.

Pronoun

sira

1. they