kira

Borrowed from Dzongkha དཀྱི་ར (dkyi ra​).

kira (plural kiras)

1. An ankle-length dress traditionally worn by women in Bhutan.

• ikra, raik, rika, Rika, Irak, Arik, krai, Kari, raki

kira

1. downward, downwards

Inherited from Malay kira.

• IPA^(key): /ki.ra/

kira

1. to assume, think that, suspect, guess, imagine
2. to be of the opinion that
3. be left out of consideration, get no consideration
4. to compute, calculate

kira (first-person possessive kiraku, second-person possessive kiramu, third-person possessive kiranya)

1. (colloquial) feeling, opinion, supposition, presumption (not based on concrete evidence)
2. guess, estimate, estimation, calculation, count, conjecture
3. (in questions, negatives) would have thought

• “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.

• IPA^(key): /kiɾa/

kira (infinitive gũkira)

1. to hold one's tongue

(Verbs)

• gũkirĩrĩria

(Proverbs)

• gũkira nĩ gũthũrana
• ũngĩona ĩkirĩte, ĩmeretie ĩngĩ

• Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 362. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

• rika

According to Dempwolf (1938), from Proto-Austronesian *kira (“‘to presume, surmise, suspect’”).

• IPA^(key): /kira/
• Rhymes: -a

kira (Jawi spelling کيرا)

1. to count (to enumerate or determine number)

   Synonyms: bilang, hitung

• “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

From Ottoman Turkish كرا, from Arabic كِرَاء (kirāʔ, “rent, renting”).

• IPA^(key): /ciˈɾaː/
• Hyphenation: ki‧ra

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kira (definite accusative kirayı, plural kiralar)

1. rent, tenancy

• 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

From Proto-Oceanic *kiʀam with irregular loss of *m, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kiʀam.

• IPA^(key): /kira/

kira

1. axe

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

• IPA^(key): /kɪɾa/

kira

1. mother

   Ja kira : Mother of children

   Zara kira : Mother of Zara; Zara's mother

2. old female animal with children; mother animal

   Day kira : Old female camel

   Bey kira : Old female goat

• Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary [provisional] ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad