kira

See also: Kira, kíra, and kĩra

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dzongkha དཀྱི་ར (dkyi ra​).

Noun

kira (plural kiras)

1. An ankle-length dress traditionally worn by women in Bhutan.

Anagrams

• ikra, raik, rika, Rika, Irak, Arik, krai, Kari, raki

Fijian

Adverb

kira

1. downward, downwards

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay kira.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ki.ra/

Verb

kira

1. to assume, think that, suspect, guess, imagine
2. to be of the opinion that
3. be left out of consideration, get no consideration
4. to compute, calculate

Noun

kira (first-person possessive kiraku, second-person possessive kiramu, third-person possessive kiranya)

1. (colloquial) feeling, opinion, supposition, presumption (not based on concrete evidence)
2. guess, estimate, estimation, calculation, count, conjecture
3. (in questions, negatives) would have thought

Derived terms

• berkira-kira
• kira-kira
• kira-kiraan
• kiraan
• kiranya
• memperkirakan
• mengira
• mengira-ngira
• mengira-ngirakan
• pengira
• pengiraan
• perkiraan
• prakira
• sekira-kira
• sekiranya
• terkira
• terkirakan

 

Further reading

• “kira” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Kikuyu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kiɾa/

Verb

kira (infinitive gũkira)

1. to hold one's tongue

Derived terms

(Verbs)

• gũkirĩrĩria

(Proverbs)

• gũkira nĩ gũthũrana
• ũngĩona ĩkirĩte, ĩmeretie ĩngĩ

References

• Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 362. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

Anagrams

• rika

Malay

Etymology

According to Dempwolf (1938), from Proto-Austronesian *kira (“‘to presume, surmise, suspect’”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kira/
• Rhymes: -a

Verb

kira (Jawi spelling کيرا)

1. to count (to enumerate or determine number)

   Synonyms: bilang, hitung

Further reading

• “kira” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) loan “approximately”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish كرا, from Arabic كِرَاء (kirāʔ, “rent, renting”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ciˈɾaː/
• Hyphenation: ki‧ra

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Noun

kira (definite accusative kirayı, plural kiralar)

1. rent, tenancy

Derived terms

• kira arabası
• kira bedeli
• kira kontratı
• kira sözleşmesi
• kiracı
• kirada olmak
• kirada oturmak
• kiralamak
• kiralık

 

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kira”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كرا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1532
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

Uneapa

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *kiʀam with irregular loss of *m, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kiʀam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kira/

Noun

kira

1. axe

Further reading

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Zaghawa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɪɾa/

Noun

kira

1. mother

   Ja kira : Mother of children

   Zara kira : Mother of Zara; Zara's mother

2. old female animal with children; mother animal

   Day kira : Old female camel

   Bey kira : Old female goat

References

• Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary [provisional] ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad