diraとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Arabic ذِرَاع m (ḏirāʕ, “cubit”), from ذِرَاع f (ḏirāʕ, “arm”).

名詞

dira (plural diras)

1. The Arabian cubit, whose value varied by place, time, and item from about 25–75 cm (10 in–2 ft 5½ in).
   • 1888, W.M.F. Petrie, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XXIV, "Weights and Measures", p. 490:

     13·3—This measure does not seem to belong to very early times, and it may probably have originated in Asia Minor... And it may well be the origin of the dirá‘ Stambuli of 26·6, twice 13·3.

アナグラム

• Radi, raid, Rida, RAID, arid, Dair, dari, riad, Aird, Irad, Dari, IARD

発音

• dīra: (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈdiː.ra/, [ˈd̪iːrä]
• dīra: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈdi.ra/, [ˈd̪iːrä]
• dīrā: (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈdiː.raː/, [ˈd̪iːräː]
• dīrā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈdi.ra/, [ˈd̪iːrä]

形容詞

dīra

1. inflection of dīrus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

形容詞

dīrā

1. ablative feminine singular of dīrus

参照

• “dira”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers