Лира — meaning in English

English meaning

• lira noun Turkey's basic unit of currency.
• lyra noun A hoop suspended from above, used by aerial acrobats to perform holds, spins, and drops.
• lyre noun A small stringed instrument from ancient Greece, with two arms rising from a body to a crossbar, plucked like a harp.

Senses

Лира is used for these senses in English:

• Lyra (constellation) A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a lyre. It includes the bright star Vega and the Ring Nebula.
• lira The former currency of Israel, superseded by the sheqel.
• lyre (string instrument) An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke.

lira — full definition

1. noun Turkey's basic unit of currency.
2. noun The former currency of Italy, before the country adopted the euro.

lyra — full definition

1. noun A hoop suspended from above, used by aerial acrobats to perform holds, spins, and drops.
2. noun A pear-shaped bowed string instrument played upright on the knee, found in Byzantine, Cretan, and other Eastern Mediterranean folk music.
3. noun (astronomy, capitalized) A small northern constellation said to look like a lyre, containing the bright star Vega.