Inherited fromProto-Austronesian*pijax.
- IPA(key): /piˈɾa/ [piˈɾa]
- Hyphenation:pi‧ra
pirá (Basahan spellingᜉᜒᜍ)
- (interrogative)how many
Cognate withOld Tupipirá.
- IPA(key): [piˈɾa]
- Rhymes:-a
- Hyphenation:pi‧ra
pira (pluralpirakuéra)
- fish
FromLatinpyra, fromAncient Greekπῦρ(pûr).
pira f (pluralpire)
- pyre
pira
- romanization ofꦥꦶꦫ
pira
- nominative/accusative/vocativeplural ofpirum
Descendants
- → Proto-West Germanic:*peru,*piru,*perā,*pirā
- Old English:peru,pere
- 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
- → Old High German:bira,pira
FromProto-Austronesian*pijax.
pira
- how many
pira
- fish
Inherited fromProto-Austronesian*pijax (compareCebuanopila).
pira
- how many
Inherited fromProto-Tupi-Guarani*pir, fromProto-Tupian*pit.
Cognate withParaguayan Guaranípire.
pira (possessable,Ib class pluriform,absolutembira)
- skin(outer protective layer of the body of a person or animal)
- skin(outer protective layer of fruit)
- Rhymes:-iɾɐ
- Hyphenation:pi‧ra
pira f (pluralpiras)
- pyre(heap on which corpses are burned)
- (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
- (Brazil, slang) aproposition,suggestion ortheory consideredabsurd or ratherunlikely
- Synonyms:viajada,piração
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
pira
- inflection ofpirar:
- third-personsingularpresentindicative
- second-personsingularimperative
FromVulgar Latin*pira, from the plural ofLatinpirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular. CompareItalianpera,Frenchpoire,Spanishpera.
pira f (pluralpiras)
- pear (fruit)
FromProto-Slavic*pyrь.
píra f
- spelt (grain) (Triticum spelta)
- “pira”, inSlovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene),2014–2025
- IPA(key): /ˈpiɾa/[ˈpi.ɾa]
- Rhymes:-iɾa
- Syllabification:pi‧ra
Borrowed fromLatinpyra(“pyre”), fromAncient Greekπυρά(purá), fromπῦρ(pûr,“fire”). Cognate withEnglishfire.
pira f (pluralpiras)
- pyre
Borrowed fromCaló[Term?].
pira f (pluralpiras)
- escape,flight
- Synonyms:fuga,huida
pira
- inflection ofpirar:
- third-personsingularpresentindicative
- second-personsingularimperative
pira
- moon
