Aira
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Translingual[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek αἶρα (aîra).
Proper noun[edit]
Aira f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Poaceae – the hair grasses, native to Europe, Africa, and western Asia.
Hypernyms[edit]
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, monocots, commelinids - clades; Poales - order; Poaceae - family; BOP clade - clade; Pooideae - subfamily; Aveneae - tribe
Hyponyms[edit]
- (genus): Aira praecox (yellow hairgrass, early hairgrass) - type species; for the numerous species see Aira on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Aira on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Aira on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Aira on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Aira at USDA Plants database
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Variant of Airi.
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Aira
- a female given name
Declension[edit]
Inflection of Aira (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Aira | Airat | ||
genitive | Airan | Airojen | ||
partitive | Airaa | Airoja | ||
illative | Airaan | Airoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Aira | Airat | ||
accusative | nom. | Aira | Airat | |
gen. | Airan | |||
genitive | Airan | Airojen Airainrare | ||
partitive | Airaa | Airoja | ||
inessive | Airassa | Airoissa | ||
elative | Airasta | Airoista | ||
illative | Airaan | Airoihin | ||
adessive | Airalla | Airoilla | ||
ablative | Airalta | Airoilta | ||
allative | Airalle | Airoille | ||
essive | Airana | Airoina | ||
translative | Airaksi | Airoiksi | ||
abessive | Airatta | Airoitta | ||
instructive | — | Airoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics[edit]
- Aira is the 191st most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 3,307 female individuals (and as a middle name to 558 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
Anagrams[edit]
Latvian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1934. From airene (“ryegrass”), from Airisa as a rendering of the English Iris, or a phonetic coinage.
Proper noun[edit]
Aira f
- a female given name
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
Categories:
- Translingual terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Translingual lemmas
- Translingual proper nouns
- mul:Taxonomic names (genus)
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑirɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑirɑ/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish given names
- Finnish female given names
- Finnish kala-type nominals
- Latvian lemmas
- Latvian proper nouns
- Latvian feminine nouns
- Latvian given names
- Latvian female given names