yira

Bidyara

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *rirra.

Noun

yira

1. tooth

Further reading

• Barry Alpher, Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Claire Bowern, Harold James Koch, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method (2004, →ISBN)

Gamilaraay

Etymology

From Proto-Central New South Wales *yirang, from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *rirra, cognate with Wiradjuri yirang.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jiɻa/, [jiɻa], [iɻa]

Noun

yira

1. tooth
   • 1856, William Ridley, “On the Kamilaroi Tribe of Australians and Their Dialect”, in Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, volume 4:

     Teeth . . īră.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1903, R. H. Mathews, “Languages of the Kamilaroi and Other Aboriginal Tribes of New South Wales”, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 33:

     Teeth .... .... yira

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Alternative forms

• Yuwaalaraay dialect: yiya

References

• Peter Austin (1993) A Reference Grammar of Gamilaraay, northern New South Wales (Thesis)‎^[1], Melbourne, Australia: La Trobe University, Department of Linguistics, →ISBN

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝiɾa/ [ˈɟ͡ʝi.ɾa]

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝiɾa/ [ˈɟ͡ʝi.ɾa] (everywhere but Pampas and southern Argentina and Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /ˈʃiɾa/ [ˈʃi.ɾa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /ˈʒiɾa/ [ˈʒi.ɾa] (elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)

• Rhymes: -iɾa
• Syllabification: yi‧ra

Etymology 1

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Noun

yira f (plural yiras)

1. (Latin America, colloquial, derogatory) harlot; prostitute

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

yira

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

References

• Babylon, Online Dictionary [2]

Further reading

• “yira”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025