dira

• dirah, diraa

From Arabic ذِرَاع m (ḏirāʕ, “cubit”), from ذِرَاع f (ḏirāʕ, “arm”).

dira (plural diras)

1. The Arabian cubit, whose value varied by place, time, and item from about 25–75 cm (10 in–2 ft 5½ in).
   • 1888, W.M.F. Petrie, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XXIV, "Weights and Measures", p. 490:

     13·3—This measure does not seem to belong to very early times, and it may probably have originated in Asia Minor... And it may well be the origin of the dirá‘ Stambuli of 26·6, twice 13·3.

• Radi, raid, Rida, RAID, arid, Dair, dari, riad, Aird, Irad, Dari, IARD

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• IPA^(key): /diɾa/ [d̪i.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -iɾa
• Hyphenation: di‧ra

dira (masculine allocutive dituk, feminine allocutive ditun)

1. Third-person plural (haiek) present indicative form of izan.

• Hyphenation: di‧ra

dira

1. there

• IPA^(key): /di.ʁa/

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dira

1. third-person singular future of dire

• raid
• rida

dirâ

1. there, yonder

Inflected form of dīrus (“fearful”).

• dīra: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdiː.ra/, [ˈd̪iːrä]
• dīra: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.ra/, [ˈd̪iːrä]
• dīrā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdiː.raː/, [ˈd̪iːräː]
• dīrā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.ra/, [ˈd̪iːrä]

dīra

1. inflection of dīrus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

dīrā

1. ablative feminine singular of dīrus

• “dira”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

dira (Cyrillic spelling дира)

1. third-person singular present of dirati

From Arabic دِيرَة (dīra, “route”).

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dira (n class, plural dira)

1. compass (instrument to determine cardinal directions)

• Baldi, Sergio (2020 November 30) Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 107 Nr. 955

Ultimately from Proto-Pama-Nyungan *rirra.

dira

1. tooth

• Barry Alpher, Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Claire Bowern, Harold James Koch, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method (2004, →ISBN