tira

Verb

tira

1. third-person singular present indicative of tirar
2. second-person singular imperative of tirar

Noun

tira f (plural tires)

1. strip

Verb

tira

1. third-person singular present indicative form of tirar
2. second-person singular imperative form of tirar

Etymology

From Spanish tirar (“shoot, throw”), from Proto-Germanic *teraną (“to tear, tear away, rip or snatch off, pull violently, tug”), from Proto-Indo-European *derə- (“to tear, tear apart”).

Verb

tira

1. To shoot, To fire a weapon.
2. To shoot a goal.
3. To inject or inhale drug.
4. To fuck.

Synonyms

1. tiro

Verb

tira

1. third-person singular past historic of tirer

Anagrams

• tari, tria

Etymology

14th century. Probably from Old French tire (“row”), from a Germanic source. Alternatively, a deverbal from tirar.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiɾa̝/

Noun

tira f (plural tiras)

1. strip; ribbon
   • 1399, Miguel González Garcés (ed.), Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media. A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 584:

     e fiz scribir en estas seis tiras de papel con esta en que vay meu signal, e bay coseyta una con outra con fio blanco; e en cada tira nas espaldas bay firmado do meu nome

     and I ordered to write in this six strips of paper, with this one where it is my sign, and they are sewn one with another with white thread; and in each strip, in the back, there is a signature with my name

2. shred
   • 1459, Anselmo López Carreira (ed.), Fragmentos de notarios (Séculos XIV-XV), doc. D40a:

     Tres tiras de vaca chaçina, huna mesa de pees et outro banco en que seen duas çestas de masa et mays outro çesto de masa.

     Three shreds of cured cow, a table with its feet and another bench where there are two baskets with dough and another basket with dough

3. figwort (a plant of the genus Scrophularia)

   Synonyms: albitorno, herba da tira

References

• “tira” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “tira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “tira” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “tira” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Verb

tira

1. third-person singular present indicative of tirare
2. second-person singular present imperative of tirare

Anagrams

• arti, atri, irta, tari, tarì, trai

Verb

tirā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of tirō

References

• tira in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Verb

tira

1. pull

Etymology

From Portuguese atirar and Spanish tirar.

Verb

tira

1. to throw

Etymology

From tirar (“to remove”), from Old Portuguese tirar, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ɾa/, /ˈt͡ʃi.ɾɐ/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ɾɐ/
• Hyphenation: ti‧ra

Noun

tira f (plural tiras)

1. strip (long, thin piece of a bigger item)
2. comic strip (a series of drawings)

tira m, f (plural tiras)

1. (slang, law enforcement) cop; police officer

Verb

tira

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of tirar
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of tirar

Etymology

From tirar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiɾa/, [ˈt̪iɾa]

Noun

tira f (plural tiras)

1. tie, ribbon
2. strip
3. (comic) strip
4. (colloquial, la tira) ages; yonks

Noun

tira m (plural tiras)

1. (Chile, Argentina, colloquial) cop

Verb

tira

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of tirar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of tirar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of tirar.

Further reading

• “tira” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Etymology 1

From Spanish tirar (“shoot, throw”) tira (tira)

1. To shoot, to fire a weapon.
2. To shoot a goal
3. To inject or inhale a drug

   Tumira ng shabu ang mga lalaki, at sinabayan pa nila ito ng pag-inom ng alak

   The men took shabu, and followed it with alcohol

4. (informal, vulgar) to have sex; to copulate

Noun

tira

1. shot

tirá

1. leftovers