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lira

See also: Lira, Lirą, Líra, liră, lirã, lirą, and líra

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Etymology 1

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From Italian lira, from Latin lībra (partly via Turkish lira, Arabic لِيرَة (līra), Maltese lira, Greek λίρα (líra), and Hebrew לִירָה (“lirá”), all of which are originally from the Italian). Doublet of arratel, libbra, Libra, libra, litra, litre, livre, and rottol.

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lira (plural lire or lira or liras)

  1. The basic unit of currency in Turkey.
  2. The currency of Lebanon (also pound), Syria (also pound), Jordan (also dinar)
  3. The former currency of Italy, Malta, San Marino, Cyprus and the Vatican City, superseded by the euro

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lira (plural lirot or liroth or liras)

  1. The former currency of Israel, superseded by the sheqel.
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Etymology 2

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From Ukrainian ліра (lira), ultimately related to the Byzantine lyra (Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra)). Doublet of Lyra, lyra, and lyre.

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lira

  1. A Ukrainian folk musical instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.

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From Latin līra (“furrow”).

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lira (plural lirae)

  1. Any of a set of fine ridges on the shells of some molluscs

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lira

  1. Alternative form of lyra.
    • 1940, Curt Sachs, The History of Musical Instruments, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., page 275:
      The first evidence of the Byzantine lira is in a Persian literary source of the ninth century.
    • 1976, Musicological Annual, page 118:
      Some instruments comprise types which are found, more or less unchanged, also with various nations and periods (recorder, shawm), whereas others belong to smaller regions (byzantine lira, rectangular harp) or only to the territory of Serbia and Macedonia (drums, larger shawms, especially in the Turkish period).
    • 1977, Laurence Wright, “The Medieval Gittern and Citole: A Case of Mistaken Identity”, in The Galpin Society Journal:
      Being an approximate synonym of cithara, the word lyra is most often applied to the harp, but one also finds it interpreted as the Germanic lyre, Byzantine lira (equated in turn with the Arabic rebab), hurdy-gurdy, citole or gittern, lute, etc.

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Etymology 1

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From Latin libra.

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lira f (plural lires)

  1. lira (currency)
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Borrowed from Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra). First attested in the 15th century.[1]

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lira f (plural lires)

  1. lyre (an ancient stringed musical instrument)
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  1. ^ “lira”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

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Chichewa

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Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-dɪ̀da.

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-lira (infinitive kulíra)

  1. to cry
  2. to weep
  3. to wail, bewail
  4. to sob
  5. to mourn
  6. to produce noise (of an animal e.g. bleating)
  7. to yelp
  8. to chirr
  9. to clang
  10. to croak
  11. to ring (e.g. phone)
  12. to sound
  13. to seep through
  14. to toll, to knell (of a bell)
  15. to desire
  16. to demand
  17. to need

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  • Steven Paas (2016), Oxford Chichewa-English/English - Chichewa Dictionary‎[1], Oxford University Press, page 263

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Borrowed from Italian lira, from Latin lībra.[1]

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lira f

  1. lira (former currency of Italy) [19th c.]
  2. lira (currency of Turkey)
  3. lira (former currency of Israel)

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Declension of lira (hard feminine)
singular plural
nominative lira liry
genitive liry lir
dative liře lirám
accusative liru liry
vocative liro liry
locative liře lirách
instrumental lirou lirami
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  1. ^ Rejzek, Jiří (2015), “lira”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, page 381

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French

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lira

  1. third-person singular future of lire

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Italian

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  • IPA(key): /ˈli.ra/
  • Rhymes: -ira
  • Hyphenation: lì‧ra

Etymology 1

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    From Latin lībra.

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    lira f (plural lire)

    1. lira
      Coordinate terms: L., £, ₤
    2. (with una (“one”)) two cents, farthing, a worthless amount or in the negative no money at all
      Synonyms: un cazzo, una sega, un centesimo, un soldo
      –'Sto frigorifero l'ho pagato una lira
      –Si vede, non funziona!
      –I bought this fridge for pennies
      –Of course you did, it's not running!
      Ma andare a bere cosa, ché non c'ho una lira?
      What do you mean going out to have drinks? I'm broke!
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    • Turkish: lira

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    From Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρᾱ (lúrā).

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    lira f (plural lire)

    1. lyre
      Synonym: cetra
      • 1959, Indro Montanelli, “Capitolo tredicesimo: Licurgo [Thirteenth Chapter: Lykourgos]”, in Storia dei Greci [History of the Greeks], 39th edition, Milan, published 1973, page 119:
        Dopo Terpandro venne Timoteo, che tentò di perfezionare la lira portandone le corde da sette a undici.
        After Terpander came Timotheus, who tried to perfect the lyre increasing the number of its strings from seven to eleven.

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    Latin

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      From Proto-Italic *loizā, from Proto-Indo-European *lóyseh₂ (“following, track; furrow”),[1] from *leys- (“track, furrow, trace, trail”).

      Cognate with Oscan feminine ablative plural 𐌋𐌖𐌉𐌔𐌀𐌓𐌉𐌚𐌔 (luisarifs, the name of a month, perhaps "in which the furrows are drawn"), Old High German leisa (“track”) (German Gleis), Old Church Slavonic лѣха (lěxa, “field bed, furrow”), Old Prussian lyso (“field bed”), Proto-Germanic *lizaną (“to know, understand”), *laizijaną (“teach”), *liʀnōn (“learn”).[2]

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      līra f (genitive līrae); first declension[3]

      1. the earth thrown up between two furrows, a ridge
      2. (agriculture) furrow

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      First-declension noun.

      singular plural
      nominative līra līrae
      genitive līrae līrārum
      dative līrae līrīs
      accusative līram līrās
      ablative līrā līrīs
      vocative līra līrae

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      • “lira”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
      • "lira", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
      • “lira”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
      1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “līra”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 345
      2. ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 409-410
      3. ^ “lira”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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      (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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      lira

      1. language

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      • Aone van Engelenhoven (2004), Leti, a language of Southwest Maluku, Leiden: Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, →ISBN, page 421

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      Etymology 1

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      Doublet of lire.

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      lira m (definite singular liraen, indefinite plural liraar or liraer or lira, definite plural liraane or liraene)

      1. (numismatics) lira (currency of Malta)
      2. (numismatics) lira (currency of Turkey)

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      See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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      lira f

      1. definite singular of lire
      2. definite singular of lire

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      From Proto-Germanic *lihwizô, *ligwizô (“thigh; groin”), from Proto-Indo-European *lekʷs-, *lewks- (“groin”). More at lire.

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      līra m (nominative plural līran)

      1. fleshy part of the body without fat or bone; brawn; muscle

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      Weak:

      singular plural
      nominative līra līran
      accusative līran līran
      genitive līran līrena
      dative līran līrum

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      Polish

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      lira

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      • IPA(key): /ˈli.ra/
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      • Rhymes: -ira
      • Syllabification: li‧ra

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      Learned borrowing from Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra).

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      lira f

      1. lyre (stringed musical instrument)
      2. black grouse's tail

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      Borrowed from Maltese lira, from Italian lira, from Latin lībra.

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      lira f

      1. (historical) lira (former unit of currency of Malta)

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      Borrowed from Turkish lira, from Italian lira, from Latin lībra.

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      lira f

      1. lira (currency of Turkey)
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      Declension of lira
      singular plural
      nominative lira liry
      genitive liry lir
      dative lirze lirom
      accusative lirę liry
      instrumental lirą lirami
      locative lirze lirach
      vocative liro liry
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      • “lira”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
      • “lira”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[3] (in Polish)

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      Borrowed from Latin lyra.

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      lira f (plural liras)

      1. lyre (a stringed musical instrument)

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      Borrowed from Italian lira, from Latin lībra.

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      lira f (plural liras)

      1. lira (unit of currency)

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      Borrowed from Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra).

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      • IPA(key): /lîːra/
      • Hyphenation: li‧ra

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      lȋra f (Cyrillic spelling ли̑ра)

      1. lyre

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      Declension of lira
      singular plural
      nominative lira lire
      genitive lire lira
      dative liri lirama
      accusative liru lire
      vocative liro lire
      locative liri lirama
      instrumental lirom lirama

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      • “lira”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

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      Etymology

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      From Old French lire, from Latin lyra.

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      lȋra f

      1. lyre (musical instrument)

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      		 The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
      Feminine, a-stem
      nom. sing. líra
      gen. sing. líre
      singular dual plural
      nominative
      (imenovȃlnik)       		líra líri líre
      genitive
      (rodȋlnik)       		líre lír lír
      dative
      (dajȃlnik)       		líri lírama líram
      accusative
      (tožȋlnik)       		líro líri líre
      locative
      (mẹ̑stnik)       		líri lírah lírah
      instrumental
      (orọ̑dnik)       		líro lírama lírami

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      • IPA(key): /ˈliɾa/ [ˈli.ɾa]
      • Rhymes: -iɾa
      • Syllabification: li‧ra

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      From Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra).

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      lira f (plural liras)

      1. lyre
      2. (Mexico, slang) guitar
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      Borrowed from Italian lira, from Latin libra. Doublet of libra.

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      lira f (plural liras)

      1. lira (former currency of Italy)

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      lira (present lirar, preterite lirade, supine lirat, imperative lira)

      1. (colloquial) to play (a sport, instrument or game)
        Synonyms: spela, (video games, slang) gibba
        lira fotboll
        play soccer
        lira gitarr
        play guitar
        lira gura
        play guitar
        With a slang term for guitar. Colloquial and likely tongue-in-cheek.
        lira Quake
        play Quake

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      Conjugation of lira (weak)
      active passive
      infinitive lira liras
      supine lirat lirats
      imperative lira —
      imper. plural1 liren —
      present past present past
      indicative lirar lirade liras lirades
      ind. plural1 lira lirade liras lirades
      subjunctive2 lire lirade lires lirades
      present participle lirande
      past participle lirad

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

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      Etymology 1

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      Borrowed from Spanish lira (“lyre”), from Latin lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra).

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      lira (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜇ)

      1. lyre
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      Borrowed from Spanish lira (“lira”), from Latin libra. Doublet of libra.

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      lira (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜇ)

      1. lira (former currency of Italy)

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      lirà (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜇ)

      1. swollen and reddened eyelids
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      Turkish

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      Inherited from Ottoman Turkish لیره, لیرا, from Italian lira, from Latin lībra.

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      • IPA(key): [l̠ʲí.ɾä]
      • Hyphenation: li‧ra

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      lira (definite accusative lirayı, plural liralar)

      1. lira (currency of Turkey)
        Synonyms: TRY, ₺
        Türk lirası ― the Turkish lira
      2. livre, pound
        Mısır lirası ― the Egyptian pound

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      Declension of lira
      singular plural
      nominative lira liralar
      definite accusative lirayı liraları
      dative liraya liralara
      locative lirada liralarda
      ablative liradan liralardan
      genitive liranın liraların
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