tira

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tira"

Asturian

Verb

tira

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

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈti.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈti.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -iɾa

Etymology 1

Deverbal from tirar.

Noun

tira f (plural tires)

1. strip
2. (colloquial) ages, yonks
   • 1994, Isabel-Clara Simó, Raquel, 22nd edition, Bromera, published 2004, →ISBN, page 55:

     Ara fa la tira de temps que no faig la gimnàstica en llevar-me […] .

     It's been ages now that I haven't done gimnastics after waking up […] .

Derived terms

• tira-tira
• tirella
• tireta
• tiró
• tiroia

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tira

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

Further reading

• “tira” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “tira” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tira”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “tira” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish tirar (“shoot, throw”), from Proto-Germanic *teraną (“to tear, tear away, rip or snatch off, pull violently, tug”), from Proto-Indo-European *derə- (“to tear, tear apart”).

Verb

tira

1. to shoot, fire a weapon
2. to shoot a goal
3. to inject or inhale drug
4. to fuck

Synonyms

• tiro

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.ʁa/

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Verb

tira

1. third-person singular past historic of tirer

Anagrams

• tari, tria

Galician

Etymology 1

14th century. Probably from Old French tire (“row”), from a Germanic source. Alternatively, a deverbal from tirar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiɾa̝/

Noun

tira f (plural tiras)

1. strip; ribbon
   • 1399, Miguel González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 584:

     e fiz scribir en estas seis tiras de papel con esta en que vay meu signal, e bay coseyta una con outra con fio blanco; e en cada tira nas espaldas bay firmado do meu nome

     and I ordered to write in this six strips of paper, with this one where it is my sign, and they are sewn one with another with white thread; and in each strip, in the back, there is a signature with my name

2. shred
   • 1459, Anselmo López Carreira (ed.), Fragmentos de notarios (Séculos XIV-XV), doc. D40a:

     Tres tiras de vaca chaçina, huna mesa de pees et outro banco en que seen duas çestas de masa et mays outro çesto de masa.

     Three shreds of cured cow, a table with its feet and another bench where there are two baskets with dough and another basket with dough

3. figwort (a plant of the genus Scrophularia)

   Synonyms: albitorno, herba da tira

Further reading

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “tira”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tira”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tira”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tira”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

tira

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

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈti.ra/
• Rhymes: -ira
• Hyphenation: tì‧ra

Verb

tira

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

Anagrams

• Rita, arti, atri, irta, tari, tarì, trai

Kabyle

Noun

tira f pl

1. verbal noun of aru: writing

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈti.raː/, [ˈt̪ɪräː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ra/, [ˈt̪iːrä]

Verb

tirā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of tirō

References

• tira in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese atirar and Spanish tirar.

Verb

tira

1. to throw

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ɾɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ɾɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ɾa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ɾɐ/

• Hyphenation: ti‧ra

Etymology 1

From tirar (“to remove”), from Old Galician-Portuguese tirar, of uncertain origin.

Noun

tira f (plural tiras)

1. strip (long, thin piece of a bigger item)

   Synonyms: faixa, filete, fita, segmento

2. comic strip (a series of drawings)

   Synonym: tirinha

Noun

tira m or f by sense (plural tiras)

1. (slang, law enforcement) cop; police officer

   Synonyms: (slang) alemão, (informal, Brazil) guarda, policial

Related terms

• tirar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tira

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

Further reading

• “tira”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “tira”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “tira” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “tira”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “tira”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “tira”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiɾa/ [ˈt̪i.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -iɾa
• Syllabification: ti‧ra

Etymology 1

Deverbal from tirar.

Noun

tira f (plural tiras)

1. tie, ribbon
2. strip
3. (comic) strip
4. (colloquial) ages; yonks

Derived terms

• asado de tira
• tira cómica
• tira de años
• tiras de queso (“string cheese”)

Noun

tira m (plural tiras)

1. (Chile, Argentina, Mexico, colloquial) cop

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tira

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

Further reading

• “tira”, 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

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tida. Compare Bikol Central tada and Ilocano tidda.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tiˈɾa/ [t̪ɪˈɾa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ti‧ra

Noun

tirá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜇ)

1. act of residing, living, or dwelling (in a certain place)

   Synonyms: tahan, pagtahan, pananahan

2. leftovers; remnant; remainder

   Synonyms: labis, labi, sobra, sobrante

3. act of setting aside something for someone who is absent

   Synonyms: pagtitira, (obsolete) subla

4. something set aside for someone who is absent

Derived terms

• ipagtira
• itira
• magpatira
• magtira
• makatira
• manira
• manirahan
• matira
• matirahan
• matitirahan
• nakatira
• pagtira
• pagtitira
• paninirahan
• panirahan
• panirahanan
• patira
• patirahan
• patirahin
• pinaninirahanan
• tinitirahan
• tira-tirahan
• tirahan
• tirhan
• tumira
• walang-nakatira

Adjective

tirá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜇ)

1. set aside for someone (such as food, etc.)
2. remaining unused, uneaten, etc.

   Synonyms: sobra, labis, labi

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish tirar (“to shoot; to throw”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtiɾa/ [ˈt̪iː.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -iɾa
• Syllabification: ti‧ra

Noun

tira (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜇ)

1. (games) player's turn to play or score (in a move that requires aiming at a target)

   Synonyms: pagtira, sulong, tumbok, pagtumbok

2. act of hitting or striking at a target one is aiming at (with a bullet, rock, arrow, etc.)
3. (figurative) physical or verbal attack against someone

   Synonyms: banat, atake, batikos, tuligsa, bugbog, gulpi, bira, buntal, bambu

4. (by extension, vulgar) to have sexual intercourse

Derived terms

• makatira
• matira
• pagtira
• tirahan
• tirahin
• tumira

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtiɾaʔ/ [ˈt̪iː.ɾɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -iɾaʔ
• Syllabification: ti‧ra

Noun

tirà (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜇ)

1. (obsolete) perseverance; ability to endure or outlast adversity (no longer used on its own except in derived terms)

   Synonym: tiyaga

Derived terms

• matira
• pagkamatira

Anagrams

• Tria

Yoruba

Tírà kan ń bẹ lórí tábìlì

Etymology

Claimed to be borrowed from Fulfulde by Abdulrazaq Mohammed Katibi. See Fula deftere, Fula defte, Maasina Fula dewtere from Arabic دَفْتَر (daftar). Probably via Middle Persian dptl (daftar), from Aramaic דפתרא / ܕܦܬܪܐ, originally from Ancient Greek διφθέρα (diphthéra). Compare likely cognate term Baatonum tireru, possibly also from Fulfulde.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tí.ɾà/

Noun

tírà

1. (Ilorin) book

   Synonym: ìwé

References

• Abdulrazaq Mohammed Katibi, Domestication of Arabo-Islamic Words in the Ilọrin Dialect of Yorùbá (2022)