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lira

noun

  1. Ukrainian instrument
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Wiktionary

name

  1. A surname from Spanish.

    Gonzalo Lira, a 55-year-old Chilean American who was imprisoned in Ukraine after allegedly spreading Russian propaganda then violating his bail conditions, has died in a Ukrainian jail. […] Lira baselessly branded Ukraine's leader a "cokehead," and described the Russian operation as "one of the most brilliant invasions in military history."

noun

  1. Alternative form of lyra.

    The first evidence of the Byzantine lira is in a Persian literary source of the ninth century.

    Some instruments comprise types which are found, more or less unchanged, also with various nations and periods (recorder, shawm), whereas others belong to smaller regions (byzantine lira, rectangular harp) or only to the territory of Serbia and Macedonia (drums, larger shawms, especially in the Turkish period).