kira
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Dzongkha དཀྱི་ར (dkyi ra).
Noun
editkira (plural kiras)
Anagrams
editFijian
editAdverb
editkira
Indonesian
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editVerb
editkira
- to assume, think that, suspect, guess, imagine
- to be of the opinion that
- be left out of consideration, get no consideration
- to compute, calculate
Noun
editkira (plural kira-kira)
- (colloquial) feeling, opinion, supposition, presumption (not based on concrete evidence)
- guess, estimate, estimation, calculation, count, conjecture
- (in questions, negatives) would have thought
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “kira” 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.
Kikuyu
editPronunciation
editVerb
editkira (infinitive gũkira)
Derived terms
edit(Verbs)
(Proverbs)
References
edit- Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 362. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
Anagrams
editMalay
editEtymology
editAccording to Dempwolf (1938), from Proto-Austronesian *kira (“‘to presume, surmise, suspect’”).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editkira (Jawi spelling کيرا)
Further reading
edit- “kira” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) loan “approximately”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
Turkish
editEtymology
editFrom Ottoman Turkish كرا, from Arabic كِرَاء (kirāʔ, “rent, renting”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkira (definite accusative kirayı, plural kiralar)
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kira”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كرا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1532
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
Uneapa
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Oceanic *kiʀam with irregular loss of *m, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kiʀam.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkira
Further reading
edit- Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
Zaghawa
editPronunciation
editNoun
editkira
- mother
- Ja kira : Mother of children
- Zara kira : Mother of Zara; Zara's mother
- old female animal with children; mother animal
- Day kira : Old female camel
- Bey kira : Old female goat
References
edit- Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary [provisional] ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad
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