Mira
See also: Appendix:Variations of "mira"
English
Etymology 1
Named by the astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1662, from Latin mīrus (“wonderful, surprising”).
Proper noun
Mira
- (astronomy) A binary star in the constellation Cetus, Omicron (ο) Ceti. The system contains a variable red giant and a white dwarf. Its brightness varies from a magnitude 2 at its brightest to a magnitude 10 at its dimmest.
- Synonym: Omicron Ceti
- Hypernym: binary star
- 2008, Helge Kragh, The Moon that Wasn't: The Saga of Venus' Spurious Satellite, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 80:
- The favoured explanation, adopted by Maraldi, was based on the assumption that the star was rotating and composed of two different parts, a bright and a dark region; if so, it might only be visible when the bright region turned towards Earth. Whatever the explanation, Mira had puzzled the astronomers because of its random character and the irregular periods between its observations.
Translations
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Mira
- Mirabai, a 16th-century Indian poetess.
- (by extension) A female given name from India.
- 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Penguin Books, published 1977, →ISBN, page 366:
- Dorothy's daughters were of exceptional beauty and the sisters could complain only that the Hindi names Dorothy had chosen - Mira, Leela, Lena - were meant to pass as Western ones.
Further reading
- Mira on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Mira (given name) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Faroese
Usage notes
Matronymics
- son of Mira: Miruson
- daughter of Mira: Mirudóttir
Declension
Singular | |
Indefinite | |
Nominative | Mira |
Accusative | Miru |
Dative | Miru |
Genitive | Miru |
Finnish
Etymology
A 20th century invention, borrowed from the Slavic diminutive of female names containing the element *mirъ (“peace”); also explained as a short form of Mirjam, or derived from the Latin name of the star.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmirɑ/, [ˈmirɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -irɑ
- Syllabification(key): Mi‧ra
Declension
Inflection of Mira (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Mira | Mirat | ||
genitive | Miran | Mirojen | ||
partitive | Miraa | Miroja | ||
illative | Miraan | Miroihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Mira | Mirat | ||
accusative | nom. | Mira | Mirat | |
gen. | Miran | |||
genitive | Miran | Mirojen Mirainrare | ||
partitive | Miraa | Miroja | ||
inessive | Mirassa | Miroissa | ||
elative | Mirasta | Miroista | ||
illative | Miraan | Miroihin | ||
adessive | Miralla | Miroilla | ||
ablative | Miralta | Miroilta | ||
allative | Miralle | Miroille | ||
essive | Mirana | Miroina | ||
translative | Miraksi | Miroiksi | ||
abessive | Miratta | Miroitta | ||
instructive | — | Miroin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Statistics
- Mira is the 112th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 7,082 female individuals (and as a middle name to 664 more), and also belongs to 6 male individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
German
Proper noun
Mira m (proper noun, strong, genitive Miras)
- (astronomy) Mira
- 2007 August 16, “Wundersamer Sprinter im All entdeckt”, in Der Spiegel:
- Astronomen haben an dem schon seit 400 Jahren bekannten Stern Mira eine überraschende Entdeckung gemacht: Der Himmelskörper im Sternbild Walfisch zieht einen kometenartigen Schweif hinter sich her. Er ist mit 13 Lichtjahren mehrere tausend Mal so lang wie unser Sonnensystem. Eine solche Beobachtung sei bisher noch nie gelungen, schreibt das Team um Mark Seibert von der Carnegie Institution im Fachblatt "Nature".
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Declension
Declension
Further reading
- Mira (Stern) on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- Mira (Vorname) on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Polish
Etymology
Back-formation from Mirosława.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmi.ra/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ira
- Syllabification: Mi‧ra
- Homophone: mira
Declension
Further reading
- Mira in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese *Mira, from Celtiberian *mira, from Proto-Celtic *mori (“sea”).
Derived terms
- Praia de Mira
- mirense
Derived terms
Serbo-Croatian
Declension
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Vilamovian
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
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