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Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *pijax.
pirá (Basahan spelling ᜉᜒᜍ)
- (interrogative) how many
pira (plural pirakuéra)
From Latin pyra, from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr).
pira f (plural pire)
pira
- Romanization of ꦥꦶꦫ
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpi.ra/, [ˈpɪrä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpi.ra/, [ˈpiːrä]
pira
Descendants
- → Proto-West Germanic: *peru, *piru, *perā, *pirā
- → Old High German: bira, pira
From Proto-Austronesian *pijax.
pira
pira
Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *pijax (compare Cebuano pila).
pira
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pir, from Proto-Tupian *pit.
Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní pire.
pira (possessable, Ib class pluriform, absolute mbira)
- skin (outer protective layer of the body of a person or animal)
- skin (outer protective layer of fruit)
- Nheengatu: pira
- 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
- Hyphenation: pi‧ra
pira f (plural piras)
- pyre (heap on which corpses are burned)
- (slang) thingamajig, gizmo, thingy (something whose name is unknown)
- (Brazil, slang) a proposition, suggestion or theory considered absurd or rather unlikely
pira
- inflection of pirar:
From Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular. Compare Italian pera, French poire, Spanish pera.
pira f (plural piras)
- pear (fruit)
- pȋr m
From Proto-Slavic *pyrь.
píra f
- spelt (grain) (Triticum spelta)
Feminine, a-stem | |||
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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 |
- “pira”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Borrowed from Latin pyra (“pyre”), from Ancient Greek πυρά (purá), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”). Cognate with English fire.
pira f (plural piras)
pira f (plural piras)
pira
- inflection of pirar:
- “pira”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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