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Ira

proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United States//ˈaɪɹə//
  • //ˈirə//

A captain of King David, a minor figure in the Bible mentioned in 2 Samuel 20:26.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A captain of King David, a minor figure in the Bible mentioned in 2 Samuel 20:26.

    And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David.

  2. 2

    A male given name from Hebrew, mostly of American usage.

  3. 3

    An unincorporated community in Jasper County, Iowa.

  4. 4

    An unincorporated community in Laclede County, Missouri.

  5. 5

    A town in Cayuga County, New York.

  6. 6

    An unincorporated community in Scurry County, Texas.

  7. 7

    A town in Rutland County, Vermont.

Etymology

From a Hebrew name עִירָא ('ira), from a word meaning "watchful".

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from the Slavic languages.

Etymology

From the Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian and Czech diminutive of the cognates of Irene.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).