tira

tira

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

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

Deverbal from tirar.

tira f (plural tires)

1. strip
2. (colloquial) ages, yonks
   • 1994, Isabel-Clara Simó, Raquel, 22nd edition, Bromera, published 2004, →ISBN, page 55:

     Ara fa la tira de temps que no faig la gimnàstica en llevar-me […] .

     It's been ages now that I haven't done gimnastics after waking up […] .

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tira

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

• “tira” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “tira” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tira”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “tira”, 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

From Spanish tirar (“shoot, throw”), from Proto-Germanic *teraną (“to tear, tear away, rip or snatch off, pull violently, tug”), from Proto-Indo-European *derə- (“to tear, tear apart”).

tira

1. to shoot, fire a weapon
2. to shoot a goal
3. to inject or inhale drug
4. to fuck

• tiro

• IPA^(key): /ti.ʁa/

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tira

1. third-person singular past historic of tirer

• tari, tria

14th century. Probably from Old French tire (“row”), from a Germanic source. Alternatively, a deverbal from tirar.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiɾa̝/

tira f (plural tiras)

1. strip; ribbon
   • 1399, Miguel González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 584:

     e fiz scribir en estas seis tiras de papel con esta en que vay meu signal, e bay coseyta una con outra con fio blanco; e en cada tira nas espaldas bay firmado do meu nome

     and I ordered to write in this six strips of paper, with this one where it is my sign, and they are sewn one with another with white thread; and in each strip, in the back, there is a signature with my name

2. shred
   • 1459, Anselmo López Carreira (ed.), Fragmentos de notarios (Séculos XIV-XV), doc. D40a:

     Tres tiras de vaca chaçina, huna mesa de pees et outro banco en que seen duas çestas de masa et mays outro çesto de masa.

     Three shreds of cured cow, a table with its feet and another bench where there are two baskets with dough and another basket with dough

3. figwort (a plant of the genus Scrophularia)

   Synonyms: albitorno, herba da tira

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “tira”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tira”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tira”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tira”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

tira

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈti.ra/
• Rhymes: -ira
• Hyphenation: tì‧ra

tira

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

• Rita, arti, atri, irta, tari, tarì, trai

tira f pl

1. verbal noun of aru: writing

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈtɪ.raː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪iː.ra]

tirā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of tirō

• "tira", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• IPA^(key): [ˈt̪ʲɪ.r̺ɐ]

ti̇̀ra

1. third-person singular/plural present of tirti

From Portuguese atirar and Spanish tirar.

tira

1. to throw

• Rhymes: -iɾɐ
• Hyphenation: ti‧ra

From tirar (“to remove”), from Old Galician-Portuguese tirar, of uncertain origin.

tira f (plural tiras)

1. strip (long, thin piece of a bigger item)

   Synonyms: faixa, filete, fita, segmento

2. comic strip (a series of drawings)

   Synonym: tirinha

tira m or f by sense (plural tiras)

1. (slang, law enforcement) cop; police officer

   Synonyms: (slang) alemão, (informal, Brazil) guarda, policial

• tirar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tira

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

• “tira”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “tira”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “tira” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “tira”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “tira”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “tira”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiɾa/ [ˈt̪i.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -iɾa
• Syllabification: ti‧ra

Deverbal from tirar.

tira f (plural tiras)

1. tie, ribbon
2. strip
3. (comic) strip
4. (colloquial) ages; yonks

tira m (plural tiras)

1. (Mexico, Guatemala, Bolivia, Chile, Rioplatense, criminal slang) cop

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tira

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

• “tira”, 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

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tida. Compare Bikol Central tada and Ilocano tidda.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /tiˈɾa/ [t̪ɪˈɾa]
    • Rhymes: -a
  • IPA^(key): /tiˈɾaʔ/ [t̪ɪˈɾaʔ] (obsolete)
• Syllabification: ti‧ra

tirá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜇ)

1. act of residing, living, or dwelling (in a certain place)

   Synonyms: tahan, pagtahan, pananahan

2. leftovers; remnant; remainder

   Synonyms: labis, labi, sobra, sobrante

3. act of setting aside something for someone who is absent

   Synonyms: pagtitira, (obsolete) subla

4. something set aside for someone who is absent

tirá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜇ)

1. set aside for someone (such as food, etc.)
2. remaining unused, uneaten, etc.

   Synonyms: sobra, labis, labi

Borrowed from Spanish tirar (“to shoot; to throw”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtiɾa/ [ˈt̪iː.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -iɾa
• Syllabification: ti‧ra

tira (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜇ)

1. (games) player's turn to play or score (in a move that requires aiming at a target)

   Synonyms: pagtira, sulong, tumbok, pagtumbok

2. act of hitting or striking at a target one is aiming at (with a bullet, rock, arrow, etc.)
3. (figurative) physical or verbal attack against someone

   Synonyms: banat, atake, batikos, tuligsa, bugbog, gulpi, bira, buntal, bambu

4. (by extension, vulgar) to have sexual intercourse

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtiɾaʔ/ [ˈt̪iː.ɾɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -iɾaʔ
• Syllabification: ti‧ra

tirà (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜇ) (obsolete)

1. perseverance; ability to endure or outlast adversity

   Synonym: tiyaga

• No longer used on its own except in derived terms.

• “tira”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[1], La Noble Villa de Pila
  • page 530: “Reſtar) Tira (pc) algo por contar o por dar”
  • page 555: “Sobras) Tira (pc) de qualquier coſa”

• Tria

Claimed to be borrowed from Fulfulde by Abdulrazaq Mohammed Katibi. See Fula deftere, Fula defte, Maasina Fula dewtere from Arabic دَفْتَر (daftar). Probably via Middle Persian dptl (daftar), from Aramaic דפתרא / ܕܦܬܪܐ, originally from Ancient Greek διφθέρα (diphthéra). Compare likely cognate term Baatonum tireru, possibly also from Fulfulde.

IPA^(key): /tí.ɾà/

tírà

1. (Ilorin) book

   Synonym: ìwé

• Abdulrazaq Mohammed Katibi, Domestication of Arabo-Islamic Words in the Ilọrin Dialect of Yorùbá (2022)