tira

See also: tirá, tirà, tirâ, tīra, tīrā, and tíra

Asturian

Verb

(deprecated template usage) tira

1. inflection of tirar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

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Catalan

Noun

tira f (plural tires)

1. strip

Verb

tira

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Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish tirar (“shoot, throw”), from Proto-Germanic *teraną (“to tear, tear away, rip or snatch off, pull violently, tug”), from Proto-Indo-European *derə- (“to tear, tear apart”).

Verb

tira

1. To shoot, To fire a weapon.
2. To shoot a goal.
3. To inject or inhale drug.
4. To fuck.

Synonyms

1. tiro

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French

Verb

tira

1. third-person singular past historic of tirer

Anagrams

• tari, tria

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Galician

Etymology

14th century. Probably from Old French tire (“row”), from a Germanic source. Alternatively, a deverbal from tirar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiɾa̝/

Noun

tira f (plural tiras)

1. strip; ribbon
   • 1399, Miguel González Garcés (ed.), Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media. A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 584:

     e fiz scribir en estas seis tiras de papel con esta en que vay meu signal, e bay coseyta una con outra con fio blanco; e en cada tira nas espaldas bay firmado do meu nome

     and I ordered to write in this six strips of paper, with this one where it is my sign, and they are sewn one with another with white thread; and in each strip, in the back, there is a signature with my name

2. shred
   • 1459, Anselmo López Carreira (ed.), Fragmentos de notarios (Séculos XIV-XV), doc. D40a:

     Tres tiras de vaca chaçina, huna mesa de pees et outro banco en que seen duas çestas de masa et mays outro çesto de masa.

     Three shreds of cured cow, a table with its feet and another bench where there are two baskets with dough and another basket with dough

3. figwort (a plant of the genus Scrophularia)

   Synonyms: albitorno, herba da tira

References

• “tira” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• “tira” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Italian

Verb

tira

1. inflection of tirare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular present imperative

Anagrams

• arti, atri, irta, tari, tarì, trai

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) tirā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of tirō

References

• tira 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)

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Novial

Verb

1. pull

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Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese atirar and Spanish tirar.

Verb

tira

1. to throw

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Portuguese

Etymology

From tirar (“to remove”), from Old Galician-Portuguese tirar, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ɾa/, /ˈt͡ʃi.ɾɐ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈti.ɾɐ/
• Hyphenation: ti‧ra

Noun

tira f (plural s)

1. strip (long, thin piece of a bigger item)
2. comic strip (a series of drawings)

tira m or f (plural s)

1. (slang, law enforcement) cop; police officer

Synonyms

• (long, thin piece): faixa, filete, fita, segmento
• (comic strip): tirinha
• (cop): alemão (slang), guarda (informal, Brazil), policial

Related terms

• tirar

Verb

tira

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Spanish

Etymology

From tirar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiɾa/ [ˈt̪i.ɾa]

Noun

tira f (plural tiras)

1. tie, ribbon
2. strip
3. (comic) strip
4. (colloquial, la tira) ages; yonks

Derived terms

• asado de tira
• tira cómica
• tiras de queso (“string cheese”)

Noun

tira m (plural tiras)

1. (Chile, Argentina, Mexico, colloquial) cop

Verb

tira

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of tirar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of tirar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of tirar.

Further reading

• Template:R:DRAE 2001

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Tagalog

Etymology 1

From Spanish tirar (“shoot, throw”)

Verb

tira (tira)

1. To shoot, to fire a weapon.
2. To shoot a goal
3. To inject or inhale a drug

   Tumira ng shabu ang mga lalaki, at sinabayan pa nila ito ng pag-inom ng alak

   The men took shabu, and followed it with alcohol

4. (informal, vulgar) to have sex; to copulate

Noun

tira

1. shot

Etymology 2

Verb

tirá

1. to inhabit; to live; to dwell

Noun

tirá

1. leftovers