Lira (disambiguation)
Lira is the unit of currency of various countries.
Specific currencies
- Current
- Turkish lira
- Jordanian dinar
- Lebanese pound
- Syrian pound
- Pound (currency), translated "lira" in some languages
- Former
- Cypriot pound 1879–2007
- French livre 781–1794
- Israeli lira 1948–1980
- Italian lira 1861–2002
- Italian East African lira 1938–1941
- Italian Somaliland lira 1925–1926
- Luccan pound, or lira, until 1800 and 1826–1847
- Maltese lira 1825–2007
- Neapolitan lira 1812–1813
- Ottoman lira 1844–1923
- Papal lira 1866–1870
- Parman lira before 1802 and 1815–1859
- Sammarinese lira 1860s–2002
- Sardinian lira 1816–1861
- Tripolitanian lira 1943–1951
- Tuscan pound, or lira, until 1807 and 1814–1826
- Vatican lira 1929–2002
- Venetian lira until 1807
Lira may also refer to:
Music
- Lira (instrument), a Ukrainian folk musical instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy
- Calabrian lira, a bowed string instrument
- Cretan lyra
- Lira da braccio, a European bowed string instrument played during the Renaissance
- Lingm or lira, a Bhutanese flute
People
- Lira (singer), South African singer
- Surname
- Aílton Lira (born 1951), Brazilian footballer
- Felipe Lira (born 1972), Venezuelan baseball player
- Johnny Lira (1951–2012), American weightlifter
- José López Lira (1892–1965), Mexican lawyer and politician
- Juan Enrique Lira (1927–2007), Chilean sport shooter
- Luana Lira (born 1996), Brazilian diver
- Michael Lira (born 1975), Australian composer
- Michael Lira (racing driver) (born 1997), American racing driver
- Osvaldo Lira (1904–1996), Chilean priest, theologian and philosopher
- Patricio Lira, Chilean footballer
- Pedro Lira (1845–1912), Chilean painter and art critic
- Pedro Reginaldo Lira (1915–2012), Argentine Catholic bishop
- Raimundo Lira (born 1943), Brazilian politician
- Sergio A. Lira, Brazilian-American immunologist
- Wendell Lira (born 1989), Brazilian footballer
Places
- Lira, Salvaterra de Miño, a village in Galicia, northwestern Spain
- Lira, Carnota, a village in Galicia, northwestern Spain
- Lira, Uganda, a town in northern Uganda
- Lira District, an administrative district in northern Uganda
- Lira gas field, in the Black Sea
- Mount Lira, in Antarctica
Other uses
- Lira (mollusc), lines or ridges on the shell of molluscs or brachiopods
- Lira (Encantadia), a fictional character in Encantadia
- Lira (ISS), a communications system
- Lira Airport, in Uganda
- Lira BK, a Swedish football club
- Liberal Reform Party (Czech Republic), a Czech political party
- Locked-In Retirement Account, a Canadian investment account designed to hold locked-in pension funds for former plan members
- Alfa class submarine or Lira class submarine
- Ciampino–G. B. Pastine International Airport, in Rome, Italy
- Lira 512, a Yugoslav clone of the IBM PC XT computer
See also
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