kira

• IPA^(key): /ki.ra/

kira

1. to assume, think that, suspect, guess, imagine
2. to be of the opinion that
3. be left out of consideration, get no consideration
4. to compute, calculate

kira (plural kira-kira, first-person possessive kiraku, second-person possessive kiramu, third-person possessive kiranya)

1. (colloquial) feeling, opinion, supposition, presumption (not based on concrete evidence)
2. guess, estimate, estimation, calculation, count, conjecture
3. (in questions, negatives) would have thought

• kira-kira

• IPA^(key): /kiɾa/

kira (infinitive gũkira)

1. to hold one's tongue

(Verbs)

• gũkirĩrĩria

(Proverbs)

• gũkira nĩ gũthũrana
• ũngĩona ĩkirĩte, ĩmeretie ĩngĩ

• Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 362. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

• rika

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /kirə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /kira/
• Rhymes: -irə, -rə, -ə

kira (used in the form mengira)

1. to count (to enumerate or determine number)

• bilang
• hitung