Kira

//kiːrə// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An ankle-length dress traditionally worn by women in Bhutan.
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name from Persian or Irish.

    "The ordeal is a world away from Kira now as she plays games on her new iPad while absently talking about downloading more apps to play music, and voicing her excitement over reuniting soon with her grandfather’s girlfriend."

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""I would like to test your capacity for logical thinking. Please have a look at this. These are pictures of Kira. I would like to see what you can tell from them." "This isn't Kira. It's me. I'm not Kira." "Bravo. You have a sharp mind.""

Etymology

Etymology 1

Variant of Kyra or borrowed from Russian Ки́ра (Kíra), ultimately from Persian کوروش (Kūrūš). Also used as a respelling of Ciara, from Irish [Term?].

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Dzongkha དཀྱི་ར (dkyi ra).

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