gira

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Kambaata gira, Sidamo gira and Saho gira.

• IPA^(key): /ɡiˈra/ [ɡɪˈɾʌ]
• Hyphenation: gi‧ra

girá f (plural giraarí f)

1. (collective) fire
2. (collective) firearms

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “gira”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

• Hyphenation: gi‧ra
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡiɾaʔ/ [ˈɡi.ɾaʔ]

girà

1. print; trace

   Synonyms: agi, batay

   Gira kan muro/guramoy

   Fingerprint

   Gira kan bitis

   Footprint

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈʒi.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈd͡ʒi.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -iɾa

Deverbal from girar.

gira f (plural gires)

1. tour
2. turn-up, cuff (of trousers)

gira

1. inflection of girar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “gira” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “gira”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Borrowed from Spanish guerra.

• Hyphenation: gi‧ra
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡiɾa/ [ˈɡi.ɾ̪ɐ]

gira

1. war; warfare

gira

1. to go to war; to enter into an armed conflict
2. to wage war

• IPA^(key): /ʒi.ʁa/

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• Homophones: giras, girât

gira

1. third-person singular past historic of girer

• agir, Riga

gira

1. inflection of girare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Agri, Riga, agri, agri-, riga

Possibly related to gerti (“to drink”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

gira f

1. kvass

gira

1. war

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

• girene

gira n pl

1. definite plural of gir

• Riga

From the verb, ultimately from English gear (preserving the g-sound).

• IPA^(key): /ɡira/

gira (singular and plural gira, comparative meir gira, superlative mest gira)

1. keen (on something), craving (after something)

   Synonyms: keen, sugen

• IPA^(key): /ɡira/

gira n pl

1. definite plural of gir

Borrowed from English gear, preserving the g-sound.

• gire (e-infinitive)
• gir (apocope, eye dialect)

• IPA^(key): /ɡira/

gira (present tense girar, past tense gira, past participle gira, passive infinitive girast, present participle girande, imperative gira/gir)

1. to gear
2. to drive (the car or even a bicycle) faster

• “gira” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ira
• Syllabification: gi‧ra

Possibly inherited from Old Polish giża (“ham, buttock”), from Proto-Slavic *gyža (“stump”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *gúnˀźjāˀ (“clump”) (possibly *gū́ˀźjāˀ), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *genǵ- or *gunǵ- (“to clump, to curl”).

gira f (augmentative girsko)

1. (colloquial or dialectal, Kuyavia, Central Greater Poland, Southern Greater Poland, Poznań, Far Masovian) leg

   Alternative form: (dialectal) giéra

   Synonyms: noga, szkita

2. (Poznań, cooking) pickled ham hock

Borrowed from Russian ги́ря (gírja), from Old East Slavic гыря (gyrja).

gira f

1. (Vilnius) weight (standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object)

   Synonym: ciężarek

• gira in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• gira in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Józef Bliziński (1860) “giry”, in Abecadłowy spis wyrazów języka ludowego w Kujawach i Galicyi Zachodniej (in Polish), Warszawa, page 622
• Oskar Kolberg (1867) “giry”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 270
• Wojciech Grzegorzewicz (1894) “giry”, in “O języku ludowym w powiecie przasnyskim”, in Sprawozdania Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 5, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 108
• Oskar Kolberg (1877) “gira”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 18
• Oskar Kolberg (1877) “gira”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 30

• Rhymes: -iɾɐ

Borrowed from Kimbundu njila.

gira f (plural giras)

1. (religion) the gathering or grouping of various spirits, who manifest through mediums in Umbanda

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

gira

1. feminine singular of giro

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

gira

1. inflection of girar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

gira

1. inflection of gerir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

a gira (third-person singular present girează, past participle girat) 1st conjugation

1. alternative form of gera

Borrowed from Spanish guerra (“war”).

gira

1. war

• IPA^(key): /ˈxiɾa/ [ˈxi.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -iɾa
• Syllabification: gi‧ra

Deverbal from girar.

gira f (plural giras)

1. tour (a journey through a list of places)

   gira por Europa ― European tour

   • 2018 July 9, “La visita de Trump a Europa plasma el nuevo orden de Estados Unidos”, in El País‎^[1]:

     El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, emprende mañana martes una gira que plasma el nuevo orden en Washington, en el que la defensa y el comercio se contemplan con el mismo prisma y los viejos aliados son hoy rivales.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• → Tagalog: hira

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

gira

1. inflection of girar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “gira”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Dutch gieren (“to yaw”) or Low German giren. First attested in 1690.^[1]

Cognate of German gieren (“to yaw”), Danish gire, and Norwegian geira (“go wrong”).

gira (present girar, preterite girade, supine girat, imperative gira)

1. (nautical, aviation) to yaw, to turn [since 1690]
2. (by extension) to swerve, to veer (turn quickly to the side (to avoid a collision))

   Bilen girade för cyklisten

   The car swerved to avoid hitting the cyclist

• gir (“yaw”, noun)

• gira in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• gira in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• Riga