dira

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dira"

English

Alternative forms

• dirah, diraa

Etymology

From Arabic ذِرَاع m (ḏirāʕ, “cubit”), from ذِرَاع f (ḏirāʕ, “arm”).

Noun

dira (plural diras)

1. The Arabian cubit, whose value varied by place, time, and item from about 25–75 cm (10 in–2 ft 5½ in).
   • 1888, W.M.F. Petrie, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XXIV, "Weights and Measures", p. 490:

     13·3—This measure does not seem to belong to very early times, and it may probably have originated in Asia Minor... And it may well be the origin of the dirá‘ Stambuli of 26·6, twice 13·3.

Anagrams

• Radi, raid, Rida, RAID, arid, Dair, dari, riad, Aird, Irad, Dari, IARD

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diɾa/ [d̪i.ɾa]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -iɾa, -a
• Hyphenation: di‧ra

Verb

dira (masculine allocutive dituk, feminine allocutive ditun)

1. third-person plural, present indicative of izan (“to be”, intransitive auxiliary)

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: di‧ra

Adverb

dira

1. there

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.ʁa/

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

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• Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)):

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Verb

dira

1. third-person singular future of dire

Anagrams

• raid
• rida

Hiligaynon

Adverb

dirâ

1. there, yonder

See also

Hiligaynon demonstratives

case	absolute	ergative	oblique	locative	existential
proximal (nearest speaker)	ini	sini		diri	ari/yari
medial (near addressee)	ina	sina		dira	ara/yara
distal (far from speaker)	adto	sadto		didto	adto/yadto

Latin

Etymology

Inflected form of dīrus (“fearful”).

Pronunciation

• dīra:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdiː.ra]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈdiː.ra]
• dīrā:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdiː.raː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈdiː.ra]

Adjective

dīra

1. inflection of dīrus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

dīrā

1. ablative feminine singular of dīrus

References

• “dira”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

dira (Cyrillic spelling дира)

1. third-person singular present of dirati

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic دِيرَة (dīra, “route”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Noun

dira class IX (plural dira class X)

1. compass (instrument to determine cardinal directions)

Yaygir

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *rirra.

Noun

dira

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