# pira
## Bikol Central
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *pijax.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /piˈɾa/ [piˈɾa]
* Hyphenation: pi‧ra

### Pronoun

pirá (Basahan spelling ᜉᜒᜍ)
* (interrogative) how many

#### Derived terms

* kapira
* magpira
* mamira

## Guaraní
### Etymology

Cognate with Old Tupi pirá.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [piˈɾa]
* Rhymes: -a
* Hyphenation: pi‧ra

### Noun

pira (plural pirakuéra)
* fish

## Italian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpi.ra/
* Rhymes: -ira
* Hyphenation: pì‧ra

### Noun

pira f (plural pire)
* pyre

### Anagrams

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

## Javanese
### Romanization

pira
* Romanization of ꦥꦶꦫ

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpi.ra/, [ˈpɪrä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpi.ra/, [ˈpiːrä]

### Noun

pira
* nominative/accusative/vocative plural of pirum

#### Descendants

* → Proto-West Germanic: *peru, *piru, *perā, *pirā
** Old English: peru, pere
*** Middle English: pere, peere, per, peire, peore, peare
**** English: pear
***** →⇒ Chinese: 啤梨 (pílí)
***** →⇒ Khmer: ផ្លែភា (phlae phiə)
***** → Sotho: pere
***** → Thai: แพร์ (pɛɛ)
***** → Tokelauan: pea
***** → Xhosa: ipere
**** Scots: peer, peir
**** → Scottish Gaelic: peur
** Old Frisian: *pere
*** Saterland Frisian: Pere
*** West Frisian: par
** Old Saxon: *pera
*** Middle Low German: bêre, pêre
**** German Low German:
    North Low German:
       Grafschaftish: Beäre
    Low Prussian, Westphalian (Westmünsterländisch): Peer
    Westphalian:
       Sauerländisch: Biär, Biäre (Sündern, Assinghausen, Elpe, Kirchhundem), Bier (Balve), Beere (Brilon, Wenden), Bäre (Niedersfeld), Biare (Drolshagen, Olpe)
       Westmünsterländisch: Peere
       South Westphalian: Beär (Dortmund)
**** → Old Norse: pera
***** Norwegian: pære
***** Danish: pære
****** → Greenlandic: pære
***** Swedish: päron
****** → Finnish: päärynä
** Old Dutch: *pera
*** Middle Dutch: pēre
**** Dutch: peer
***** Afrikaans: peer
***** Jersey Dutch: pêr
***** → Aukan: peli
***** → Saramaccan: péíli (from the diminutive form)
* → Old High German: bira, pira
** Middle High German: bir, bire, pir
*** Alemannic German: Biire
*** Bavarian: Birn
*** German: Birne
**** → Estonian: pirn
**** → Kashubian: birna
*** Hunsrik: Bern
*** Luxembourgish: Bir
*** Vilamovian: biyn
*** Yiddish: באַר (bar)

## Maranao
### Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *pijax.

### Pronoun

pira
* how many

## Mbyá Guaraní
### Noun

pira
* fish

## Old Javanese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pi.ra/

### Pronoun

pira
* how many

#### Derived terms

* kadi pira
* maṅadipira
* pira-pira
* piraṅ-piraṅ
* tan pinira
* tan pira
* tan sapira

#### Descendants

* Javanese: ꦥꦶꦫ (pira)

## Old Tupi
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pir, from Proto-Tupian *pit.
Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní pire.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpi.ɾa]
* Rhymes: -iɾa
* Hyphenation: pi‧ra

### Noun

pira (possessable, Ib class pluriform, absolute mbira)
* skin (outer protective layer of the body of a person or animal)
* skin (outer protective layer of fruit)

#### Related terms

* pirûera

#### Descendants

* Nheengatu: pira

### References

* 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

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpi.ɾɐ/
* Rhymes: -iɾɐ
* Hyphenation: pi‧ra

### Etymology 1
#### Alternative forms

* pyra (obsolete)

#### Noun

pira f (plural piras)
* pyre (heap on which corpses are burned)
* (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
* (Brazil, slang) a proposition, suggestion or theory considered absurd or rather unlikely
    Synonyms: viajada, piração

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

pira
* inflection of pirar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “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

## Sardinian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpira/

### Noun

pira f (plural piras)
* pear (fruit)

## Slovene
### Alternative forms

* pȋr m

### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pyrь.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pìːra/

### Noun

píra f
* spelt (grain) (Triticum spelta)

#### Inflection
### Further reading

* “pira”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpiɾa/ [ˈpi.ɾa]
* Rhymes: -iɾa
* Syllabification: pi‧ra

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

pira f (plural piras)
* pyre

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Caló [Term?].

#### Noun

pira f (plural piras)
* escape, flight
    Synonyms: fuga, huida

##### Related terms

* ir de pira
* pirado
* pirante
* pirarse

#### Verb

pira
* inflection of pirar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10

## Warlpiri
### Noun

pira
* moon