"Lyra" meaning in English

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Proper name

IPA: /ˈlaɪ.ɹə/, /ˈlɪ(ə)ɹ.ə/
Rhymes: -aɪɹə, -ɪɹə Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Lyra/lyra, from Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra, “a lyre; the constellation Lyra”). Doublet of lira and lyre. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|Lyra}} Latin Lyra, {{der|en|grc|λύρα||a lyre; the constellation Lyra}} Ancient Greek λύρα (lúra, “a lyre; the constellation Lyra”), {{doublet|en|lira|lyre}} Doublet of lira and lyre Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Lyra
  1. (astronomy) A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a lyre. It includes the bright star Vega and the Ring Nebula. Categories (topical): Constellations Translations (constellation): Λύρα (Lúra) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), Χέλυς (Khélus) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), Քնար (Kʻnar) (Armenian), Lyyra (Finnish), Lyre [feminine] (French), Lira (Galician), Leier [feminine] (German), Λύρα (Lýra) [feminine] (Greek), an Lir [feminine] (Irish), 거문고자리 (Geomun'gojari) (Korean), Chelys [feminine] (Latin), Lyra [feminine] (Latin), Fides [feminine] (Latin), Fidis [feminine] (Latin), Fidicula [feminine] (Latin), Lira (Malay), چنگ رومی (čang-e rumi) (Persian), Lutnia [feminine] (Polish), Ли́ра (Líra) [feminine] (Russian), Lyra (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-Lyra-en-name--R27A5SW Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences Disambiguation of 'constellation': 100 0
  2. (rare) A female given name from Ancient Greek Tags: rare Categories (topical): English female given names, English given names Derived forms: Lyrae, Lyrid
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.