FromArabicذِرَاع m(ḏirāʕ,“cubit”), fromذِرَاع f(ḏirāʕ,“arm”).
dira (pluraldiras)
- TheArabiancubit, whosevaluevaried byplace,time, anditem from about 25–75 cm (10 in–2 ft 5½ in).
- Radi,raid,Rida,RAID,arid,Dair,dari,riad,Aird,Irad,Dari,IARD
dira (masculine allocutivedituk,feminine allocutiveditun)
- Third-person plural (haiek) present indicative form ofizan.
dira
- there
dira
- third-personsingularfuture ofdire
dirâ
- there,yonder
Inflected form ofdīrus(“fearful”).
dīra
- inflection ofdīrus:
- nominative/vocativefemininesingular
- nominative/accusative/vocativeneuterplural
dīrā
- ablativefemininesingular ofdīrus
- “dira”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
dira (Cyrillic spellingдира)
- third-personsingularpresent ofdirati
FromArabicدِيرَة(dīra,“route”).[1]
dira classIX (pluraldira classX)
- compass(instrument to determine cardinal directions)
- ^Baldi, Sergio (2020 November 30)Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten;145), Leiden • Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page107 Nr. 955
Ultimately fromProto-Pama-Nyungan*rirra.
dira
- tooth
- Barry Alpher,Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Claire Bowern, Harold James Koch,Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method (2004,→ISBN