lira

Definitions

1. The basic unit of currency in Turkey.
2. The former currency of Israel, superseded by the sheqel.
3. A surname from Spanish.
4. A Ukrainian folk musical instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.
5. Any of a set of fine ridges on the shells of some molluscs
6. The currency of Lebanon (also pound), Syria (also pound), Jordan (also dinar)
7. The former currency of Italy, Malta, San Marino, Cyprus and the Vatican City, superseded by the euro

Equivalents

Examples

“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).”

“Being an approximate synonym of cithara, the word lyra is most often applied to the harp, but one also finds it interpreted as the Germanic lyre, Byzantine lira (equated in turn⟳ with the Arabic rebab), hurdy-gurdy, citole or gittern, lute, etc.”

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