# kira
## English
### Etymology

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

### Noun

kira (plural kiras)
* An ankle-length dress traditionally worn by women in Bhutan.

### Anagrams

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

## Fijian
### Adverb

kira
* downward, downwards

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Inherited from Malay kira.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ki.ra/

### Verb

kira
* 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

kira (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

* berkira-kira
* kira-kira
* kira-kiraan
* kiraan
* kiranya
* memperkirakan
* mengira
* mengira-ngira
* mengira-ngirakan
* pengira
* pengiraan
* perkiraan
* prakira
* sekira-kira
* sekiranya
* terkira
* terkirakan

### Further reading

* “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.

## Japanese
### Romanization

kira
* Rōmaji transcription of きら

## Kikuyu
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kiɾa/

### Verb

kira (infinitive gũkira)
* to hold one's tongue

#### Derived terms

(Verbs)
* gũkirĩrĩria
(Proverbs)
* gũkira nĩ gũthũrana
* ũngĩona ĩkirĩte, ĩmeretie ĩngĩ

### References

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

### Anagrams

* rika

## Malay
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kira/
* Rhymes: -a

### Verb

kira (Jawi spelling کيرا)
* to count (to enumerate or determine number)
    Synonyms: bilang, hitung

### Further reading

* “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
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ciˈɾaː/
* Hyphenation: ki‧ra
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

kira (definite accusative kirayı, plural kiralar)
* rent, tenancy

#### Derived terms

* kira arabası
* kira bedeli
* kira kontratı
* kira sözleşmesi
* kiracı
* kirada olmak
* kirada oturmak
* kiralamak
* kiralık

### References

* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kira”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كرا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, 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
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kira/

### Noun

kira
* axe

### Further reading

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

## Zaghawa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɪɾa/

### Noun

kira
* 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

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