pira

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pira"

Bikol Central

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *pijax.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piˈɾa/ [piˈɾa]
• Hyphenation: pi‧ra

Pronoun

pirá (Basahan spelling ᜉᜒᜍ)

1. (interrogative) how many

Derived terms

• kapira
• magpira
• mamira

 

Guaraní

Etymology

Cognate with Old Tupi pirá.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [piˈɾa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: pi‧ra

Noun

pira (plural pirakuéra)

1. fish

Italian

Etymology

From Latin pyra, from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ra/
• Rhymes: -ira
• Hyphenation: pì‧ra

Noun

pira f (plural pire)

1. pyre

Anagrams

• IRAP, apri, aprì, arpi, pari, pria, rapi, rapì, ripa

Javanese

Romanization

pira

1. Romanization of ꦥꦶꦫ

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ra/, [ˈpɪrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ra/, [ˈpiːrä]

Noun

pira

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pirum

Descendants

Descendants

• → Proto-West Germanic: *peru, *piru, *perā, *pirā
  • Old English: peru, pere
    • Middle English: pere, peere, per, peire, peore, peare
      • English: pear
        • →⇒ Chinese: 啤梨 (pílí)
        • →⇒ Khmer: ផ្លែភា (phlae phiə)
        • → Sotho: pere
        • → Thai: แพร์ (pɛɛ)
        • → Tokelauan: pea
        • → Xhosa: ipere
      • Scots: peer, peir
      • → Scottish Gaelic: peur
  • Old Frisian: *pere
    • Saterland Frisian: Pere
    • West Frisian: par
  • Old Saxon: *pera
    • Middle Low German: bêre, pêre
      • German Low German:

        North Low German:

        Grafschaftish: Beäre

        Low Prussian, Westphalian (Westmünsterländisch): Peer

        Westphalian:

        Sauerländisch: Biär, Biäre (Sündern, Assinghausen, Elpe, Kirchhundem), Bier (Balve), Beere (Brilon, Wenden), Bäre (Niedersfeld), Biare (Drolshagen, Olpe)

        Westmünsterländisch: Peere

        South Westphalian: Beär (Dortmund)

      • → Old Norse: pera
        • Norwegian: pære
        • Danish: pære
          • → Greenlandic: pære
        • Swedish: päron
          • → Finnish: päärynä
  • Old Dutch: *pera
    • Middle Dutch: pēre
      • Dutch: peer
        • Afrikaans: peer
        • Jersey Dutch: pêr
        • → Aukan: peli
        • → Saramaccan: péíli (from the diminutive form)
• → Old High German: bira, pira
  • Middle High German: bir, bire, pir
    • Alemannic German: Biire
    • Bavarian: Birn
    • German: Birne
      • → Estonian: pirn
      • → Kashubian: birna
    • Hunsrik: Bern
    • Luxembourgish: Bir
    • Vilamovian: biyn
    • Yiddish: באַר (bar)

Maranao

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *pijax.

Pronoun

pira

1. how many

Mbyá Guaraní

Noun

pira

1. fish

Old Javanese

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *pijax (compare Cebuano pila).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.ra/

Pronoun

pira

1. how many

Derived terms

• kadi pira
• maṅadipira
• pira-pira
• piraṅ-piraṅ
• tan pinira
• tan pira
• tan sapira

 

Descendants

• Javanese: ꦥꦶꦫ (pira)

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pir, from Proto-Tupian *pit.

Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní pire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpi.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -iɾa
• Hyphenation: pi‧ra

Noun

pira (possessable, Ib class pluriform, absolute mbira)

1. skin (outer protective layer of the body of a person or animal)
2. skin (outer protective layer of fruit)

Related terms

• pirûera

 

Descendants

• Nheengatu: pira

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “pira”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 384

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ɾɐ/

• Hyphenation: pi‧ra

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• pyra (obsolete)

Noun

pira f (plural piras)

1. pyre (heap on which corpses are burned)
2. (slang) thingamajig, gizmo, thingy (something whose name is unknown)

   Synonyms: coisa, (Brazil) troço, (Brazil) treco, (Brazil) negócio, (Brazil) bagulho, (Brazil) bagaça, trem, (Portugal) cena, bang

3. (Brazil, slang) a proposition, suggestion or theory considered absurd or rather unlikely

   Synonyms: viajada, piração

Etymology 2

Verb

pira

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

Sardinian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular. Compare Italian pera, French poire, Spanish pera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpira/

Noun

pira f (plural piras)

1. pear (fruit)

Slovene

Alternative forms

• pȋr m

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pyrь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pìːra/

Noun

píra f

1. spelt (grain) (Triticum spelta)

Inflection

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.	píra
gen. sing.	píre
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	píra	píri	píre
genitive (rodȋlnik)	píre	pír	pír
dative (dajȃlnik)	píri	pírama	píram
accusative (tožȋlnik)	píro	píri	píre
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	píri	pírah	pírah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	píro	pírama	pírami

Further reading

• “pira”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiɾa/ [ˈpi.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -iɾa
• Syllabification: pi‧ra

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin pyra (“pyre”), from Ancient Greek πυρά (purá), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”). Cognate with English fire.

Noun

pira f (plural piras)

1. pyre

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Caló [Term?].

Noun

pira f (plural piras)

1. escape, flight

   Synonyms: fuga, huida

Related terms

• ir de pira
• pirado
• pirante
• pirarse

 

Verb

pira

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

Further reading

• “pira”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Warlpiri

Noun

pira

1. moon