"tira" meaning in Portuguese

See tira in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈt͡ʃi.ɾɐ/ [Brazil], /ˈt͡ʃi.ɾɐ/ [Brazil], /ˈt͡ʃi.ɾa/ [Southern-Brazil], /ˈti.ɾɐ/ [Portugal] Forms: tiras [plural]
Rhymes: -iɾɐ Etymology: From tirar (“to remove”), from Old Galician-Portuguese tirar, of uncertain origin. Etymology templates: {{der|pt|roa-opt|tirar}} Old Galician-Portuguese tirar Head templates: {{pt-noun|f}} tira f (plural tiras)
  1. strip (long, thin piece of a bigger item) Tags: feminine Synonyms: faixa, filete, fita, segmento
    Sense id: en-tira-pt-noun-RFvC3OIK Categories (other): Portuguese nouns with irregular gender, Occupations Disambiguation of Portuguese nouns with irregular gender: 26 40 34 Disambiguation of Occupations: 12 10 36 37 5
  2. comic strip (a series of drawings) Tags: feminine Synonyms: tirinha
    Sense id: en-tira-pt-noun-kMYzQI5n Categories (other): Portuguese nouns with irregular gender, Occupations Disambiguation of Portuguese nouns with irregular gender: 26 40 34 Disambiguation of Occupations: 12 10 36 37 5
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ˈt͡ʃi.ɾɐ/ [Brazil], /ˈt͡ʃi.ɾɐ/ [Brazil], /ˈt͡ʃi.ɾa/ [Southern-Brazil], /ˈti.ɾɐ/ [Portugal] Forms: tiras [plural]
Rhymes: -iɾɐ Etymology: From tirar (“to remove”), from Old Galician-Portuguese tirar, of uncertain origin. Etymology templates: {{der|pt|roa-opt|tirar}} Old Galician-Portuguese tirar Head templates: {{pt-noun|mfbysense}} tira m or f by sense (plural tiras)
  1. (slang, law enforcement) cop; police officer Tags: by-personal-gender, feminine, masculine, slang Synonyms: alemão [slang], guarda [Brazil, informal], policial Related terms: tirar
    Sense id: en-tira-pt-noun-5f02zhqw Categories (other): Law enforcement, Portuguese masculine and feminine nouns by sense, Portuguese nouns with irregular gender, Occupations Disambiguation of Portuguese masculine and feminine nouns by sense: 24 30 46 Disambiguation of Portuguese nouns with irregular gender: 26 40 34 Disambiguation of Occupations: 12 10 36 37 5 Topics: government, law-enforcement
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /ˈt͡ʃi.ɾɐ/ [Brazil], /ˈt͡ʃi.ɾɐ/ [Brazil], /ˈt͡ʃi.ɾa/ [Southern-Brazil], /ˈti.ɾɐ/ [Portugal]
Rhymes: -iɾɐ Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Etymology templates: {{nonlemma}} See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. Head templates: {{head|pt|verb form}} tira
  1. inflection of tirar:
    third-person singular present indicative
    Tags: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person Form of: tirar
    Sense id: en-tira-pt-verb-vqVj~8Ib Categories (other): Pages with 14 entries, Pages with entries, Portuguese entries with incorrect language header, Occupations Disambiguation of Pages with 14 entries: 8 1 0 1 8 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 2 8 1 8 1 2 2 2 8 1 0 0 0 1 4 8 1 1 2 3 2 5 1 4 5 1 1 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 9 1 0 0 9 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 9 1 9 1 2 2 2 9 1 0 0 0 0 4 9 1 1 3 3 3 5 1 4 5 2 0 2 Disambiguation of Portuguese entries with incorrect language header: 13 9 12 54 13 Disambiguation of Occupations: 12 10 36 37 5
  2. inflection of tirar:
    second-person singular imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, second-person, singular Form of: tirar
    Sense id: en-tira-pt-verb-VLY08apN
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Portuguese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-20 using wiktextract (074e7de and f1c2b61). 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.