dira

See also:Appendix:Variations of "dira"

English

Alternative forms

• dirah,diraa

Etymology

FromArabicذِرَاعm(ḏirāʕ,“cubit”),fromذِرَاعf(ḏirāʕ,“arm”).

Noun

dira(pluraldiras)

1. TheArabiancubit,whosevaluevariedbyplace,time,anditemfrom about 25–75cm(10in–2ft5½in).
   • 1888,W.M.F. Petrie,Encyclopaedia Britannica,9th ed.,Vol. XXIV,"Weights and Measures",p. 490:

     13·3—This measure does not seem to belong to very early times, and it may probably have originated in Asia Minor... And it may well be the origin of thedirá‘Stambuli of 26·6, twice 13·3.

Anagrams

• Radi,raid,Rida,RAID,arid,Dair,dari,riad,Aird,Irad,Dari,IARD

Basque

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key):/diɾa/[d̪i.ɾa]
• Rhymes:-iɾa
• Hyphenation:di‧ra

Verb

dira(masculine allocutivedituk,feminine allocutiveditun)

1. Third-person plural (haiek) present indicative form ofizan.

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation:di‧ra

Adverb

dira

1. there

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/di.ʁa/

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Verb

dira

1. third-personsingularfutureofdire

Anagrams

• raid
• rida

Hiligaynon

Adverb

dirâ

1. there,yonder

Latin

Etymology

Inflected form ofdīrus(“fearful”).

Pronunciation

• dīra:(Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈdiː.ra/,[ˈd̪iːrä]
• dīra:(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈdi.ra/,[ˈd̪iːrä]
• dīrā:(Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈdiː.raː/,[ˈd̪iːräː]
• dīrā:(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈdi.ra/,[ˈd̪iːrä]

Adjective

dīra

1. inflection ofdīrus:
   1. nominative/vocativefemininesingular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocativeneuterplural

Adjective

dīrā

1. ablativefemininesingularofdīrus

References

• “dira”,inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary,New York: Harper & Brothers

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

dira(Cyrillic spellingдира)

1. third-personsingularpresentofdirati

Swahili

Etymology

FromArabicدِيرَة(dīra,“route”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

diraclassIX(pluraldiraclassX)

1. compass(instrument to determine cardinal directions)

Yaygir

Etymology

Ultimately fromProto-Pama-Nyungan*rirra.

Noun

dira

1. tooth

Further reading

• Barry Alpher,Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma,in Claire Bowern, Harold James Koch,Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method(2004,→ISBN