nira

nira

1. water

• Paul Rivet, Nouvelle contribution à l’étude de l’ethnologie précolombienne de Colombie, Journal de la Société des Américanistes, volume 35 (1943), page 26

From Malay nira, from Pali nira (“water”), from Sanskrit नीर (nīra, “water, juice, liquor”).

• IPA^(key): /ni.ra/
• Hyphenation: ni‧ra

nira

1. neera, a type of sap, liquor

• “nira” 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.

nira

1. Rōmaji transcription of にら
2. Rōmaji transcription of ニラ

Borrowed from Arabic نِيرْ (nīr).

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nira class IX (plural nira class X)

1. yoke

nira

1. sew

nira

1. water

• Alexandre François, The languages of Vanikoro: Three lexicons and one grammar, in Discovering history through language: Papers in honour of Malcolm Ross (Bethwyn Evans, editor), Pacific Linguistics 605 (2009, Canberra: Australian National University)