pira

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *pijax.

• IPA^(key): /piˈɾa/ [piˈɾa]
• Hyphenation: pi‧ra

pirá (Basahan spelling ᜉᜒᜍ)

1. (interrogative) how many

Cognate with Old Tupi pirá.

• IPA^(key): [piˈɾa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: pi‧ra

pira (plural pirakuéra)

1. fish

From Latin pyra, from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ra/
• Rhymes: -ira
• Hyphenation: pì‧ra

pira f (plural pire)

1. pyre

• IRAP, apri, aprì, arpi, pari, pria, rapi, rapì, ripa

pira

1. romanization of ꦥꦶꦫ

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɪ.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpiː.ra]

pira

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pirum

From Proto-Austronesian *pijax.

pira

1. how many

pira

1. fish

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *pijax (compare Cebuano pila).

• IPA^(key): /pi.ra/

pira

1. how many

• Javanese: ꦥꦶꦫ (pira)

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pir, from Proto-Tupian *pit.

Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní pire.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpi.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -iɾa
• Hyphenation: pi‧ra

pira (possessable, Ib class pluriform, absolute mbira)

1. skin (outer protective layer of the body of a person or animal)
2. 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, columns 1–2

• Rhymes: -iɾɐ
• Hyphenation: pi‧ra

• pyra (obsolete)

pira f (plural piras)

1. pyre (heap on which corpses are burned)
2. (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

3. (Brazil, slang) a proposition, suggestion or theory considered absurd or rather unlikely

   Synonyms: viajada, piração

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pira

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

• “pira”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “pira”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

From Vulgar Latin *pira, from the plural of Latin pirum, reanalyzed as a feminine singular. Compare Italian pera, French poire, Spanish pera.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpira/

pira f (plural piras)

1. pear (fruit)

• pȋr m

From Proto-Slavic *pyrь.

• IPA^(key): /pìːra/

píra f

1. spelt (grain) (Triticum spelta)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
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 (in Slovene), 2014–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiɾa/ [ˈpi.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -iɾa
• Syllabification: pi‧ra

Borrowed from Latin pyra (“pyre”), from Ancient Greek πυρά (purá), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”). Cognate with English fire.

pira f (plural piras)

1. pyre

Borrowed from Caló [Term?].

pira f (plural piras)

1. escape, flight

   Synonyms: fuga, huida

pira

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

• “pira”, 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

pira

1. moon