lira

From Italian lira, from Latin lībra (partly via Turkish lira, Arabic لِيرَة‎ (līra), Maltese lira, Greek λίρα (líra), and Hebrew לִירָה‎, all of which are originally from the Italian). Doublet of livre

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪəɹə/
• Rhymes: -ɪəɹə

lira (plural lire 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 The former currency of Italy, Malta, San Marino, Cyprus and the Vatican City, superseded by the euro

lira (plural lirot or liroth or liras)

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 The former currency of Israel, superseded by the sheqel.

• £

From Ukrainian ліра (lira).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪəɹə/
• Rhymes: -ɪəɹə

lira

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

From Latin līra (“furrow”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪɹə/
• Rhymes: -aɪɹə
• Homophones: lyra, Lyra

lira (plural lirae)

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

• Lair, aril, lair, lari, liar, rail, rial

lira f (plural lires)

1. lira

lira f (plural lires)

1. lyre

From Latin lībra.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪra/
• Rhymes: -ɪra
• Hyphenation: li‧ra
• Homophone: lyra

lira f

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

• libra

lira

1. third-person singular future of lire

• rail

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.ra/, [ˈl̺iːr̺ä]
• Hyphenation: lì‧ra

From Latin lībra.

lira f (plural lire)

1. lira

From Latin lyra.

lira f (plural lire)

1. lyre

   Synonym: cetra

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”), *liznaną (“learn”).[2]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.ra/

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

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

First declension.

• lira in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lira in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• lira in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

From Proto-Germanic *lihwizô, *ligwizô (“thigh; groin”). More at lire.

• IPA^(key): /ˈliːrɑ/

līra m (nominative plural līran)

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

• līreht

• Middle English: lire, lyre
  • English: lire

• IPA^(key): /ˈlʲi.ra/

Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra).

lira f

1. lyre
2. black grouse's tail

Maltese, Turkish, both from Italian lira, from Latin lībra (“pound”).

lira f

1. lira (“former currency of Malta”)
2. lira (“the basic unit of currency in Turkey”)

• lir

• lira in Polish dictionaries at PWN

lira f (plural liras)

1. lyre (a stringed musical instrument)

lira f (plural liras)

1. lira (unit of currency)

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

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

lȋra f (Cyrillic spelling ли̑ра)

1. lyre

• “lira” in Hrvatski jezični portal

• IPA^(key): /ˈlíːra/
• Tonal orthography: lȋra

líra f (genitive líre, nominative plural líre)

1. lyre (musical instrument)

• IPA^(key): /ˈliɾa/

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

lira f (plural liras)

1. lyre

From Italian lira, from Latin libra.

lira f (plural liras)

1. lira (former currency of Italy)

• “lira” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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

1. (colloquial) to play (a sport, an instrument or a game)

From Italian lira.

lira (definite accusative lirayı, plural liralar)

1. Turkish lira.

• Türk lirası
• liret (Italian lira)
• İtalyan lireti