Tira may refer to:
Places
Place names derived from the word in
Hebrew
Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...
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Aramaic
The Aramaic languages, short Aramaic ( syc, ܐܪܡܝܐ, Arāmāyā; oar, 𐤀𐤓𐤌𐤉𐤀; arc, 𐡀𐡓𐡌𐡉𐡀; tmr, אֲרָמִית), are a language family containing many varieties (languages and dialects) that originated in ...
for 'fort' or 'castle' ( he, טירה, translit=Tira, link=no), often confounded with the Arabic for ''tair'' (bird).
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At Tiri, a village in Lebanon; SWP 4
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Al-Tira, Haifa :''See Tira for other sites with similar names.''
al-Tira ( ar, الطيرة, also called Tirat al-Lawz or "Tira of the almonds" to distinguish it from other al- Tiras) was a Palestinian town located 7 kilometres south of Haifa.
It was made up o ...
, a village in the Haifa District, depopulated in 1948; SWP 5
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Al-Tira, Baysan :''See Tira for other sites with similar names.''
Al-Tira ( ar, الطيرة), was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Baysan. It was depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on 15 ...
, a village in the Beisan District, depopulated in 1948; SWP 9
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Tira, Israel
Tira ( he, טִירָה, ''Ṭīra'', lit. "Fort"; ar, الطـّيرة, ''al-Tira'') is a city in the Central District of Israel. Part of The Triangle, a concentration of Arab towns and villages adjacent to the Green Line, Tira is close to ...
, a city in Israel; SWP 11
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Al-Tira (Ramla) :''See Tira for other sites with similar names.''
Al-Tira was a Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict. It was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War on July 10, 1948, by the Alexandroni and Armored (Eighth) brigades under Operati ...
, a village in the Ramla District, depopulated in 1948; SWP 14
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at-Tira (Ramallah)
At-Tira ( ar, الطيرة ) is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the northern West Bank. Location
At Tira is located southwest of Ramallah. It is bordered by Beituniya to the east and north, Beit 'Ur al Fauqa ...
, a Palestinian village in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate; on SWP 17
Other places
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Tira, Texas, a town in Texas, United States
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Tira Sujanpur
Tira Sujanpur, also known as Sujanpur Tira or Sujanpur Tihra, is a town and municipal council in the Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh. Founded in the 18th-century by the Katoch dynasty, the town is located midst the Himalayan foothills on ...
, a town in India
* Ţîra and Ţîra station, villages in
Ghindeşti, Floreşti, Moldova
Ethnic group and language
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Tira people The Tira are a sub-ethnic group of the Nuba peoples in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan state, in southern Sudan. The population of this group exceeds 100,000.
Language
They speak Tira of the Kordofanian languages
The Kordofanian languages ...
, an ethnic group in Sudan
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Tira language
Tiro, also ''Thiro'' or ''Tira'', is a Niger–Congo language in the Heiban family spoken in Kordofan
Kordofan ( ar, كردفان ') is a former province of central Sudan. In 1994 it was divided into three new federal states: North Kordofa ...
, a Niger-Congo language in the Heiban family
People with the surname
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Olia Tira
Olia Tira (born Olga Tsyra) ( ro, Olga Țîra) on 1 August 1988), also known by her stage name FLUX LIGHT, is a German-born Moldovan singer.
Early life
Tira was born in 1988 into a Soviet military family in Potsdam, East Germany. She spent a few ...
, an East German-born Moldovan singer
Other
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Tira (Soulcalibur)
is a Character (arts), fictional character in the Soulcalibur (series), ''Soulcalibur'' series of video games. She was created by Namco's Project Soul division. Tira was originally introduced in ''Soulcalibur III'' and has returned in ''Soulcalib ...
, a fictional character in the Soul series of fighting games
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TIRA (System)
The Tracking & Imaging Radar (TIRA) system serves as the central experimental facility for the development and investigation of radar techniques for the detection and reconnaissance of objects in space, and (to a certain degree) of air targets. TI ...
, a radar in Germany
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Traditional IRA
A traditional IRA is an individual retirement arrangement (IRA), established in the United States by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) (, codified in part at ). Normal IRAs also existed before ERISA.
Overview
An author de ...
, an individual retirement account
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PS TIRA, an Indonesian football club
See also
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Tyra (disambiguation)
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Tireh (disambiguation)
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TIR (disambiguation)
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