pira

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pira"

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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

Guaraní

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pi.ˈɾa/

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

Javanese

Romanization

pira

  1. Romanization of ꦥꦶꦫ

Latin

Pronunciation

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
        • Scots: peer, peir
    • 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
    • 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

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

Old Tupi

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpiɾa/

Noun

pira

  1. skin

References

Portuguese

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpi.ɾɐ/

  • Hyphenation: pi‧ra

Alternative forms

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

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

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, portal Fran

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

Verb

pira

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

Further reading

Warlpiri

Noun

pira

  1. moon
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