Lira is the unit of currency of various countries.

Specific currencies

Current

  • Turkish lira
  • Lebanese lira
  • Syrian lira
  • Pound, translated "lira" in some languages

Former

  • Cypriot lira 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 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 lira until 1807 and 1814–1826
  • Vatican lira 1929–2002
  • Venetian lira until 1807

Music

  • Lira (Ukrainian instrument), a Ukrainian folk musical instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy
  • Lira da braccio, a European bowed string instrument played during the Renaissance
  • Byzantine lyra or lira, a medieval bowed string instrument
  • Calabrian lira, a bowed string instrument
  • Cretan lyra, a Greek pear-shaped, three-stringed bowed instrument
  • Lyre, a string instrument known for its use in Greek classical antiquity and later periods
  • Lingm or lira, a Bhutanese flute

People

  • Lira (name), a surname and given name
  • Lira (singer) (born 1979), South African singer

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
  • Lira-San, a fictional planet in the Star Wars universe

See also

  • Lire (disambiguation)
  • Liria (disambiguation)
  • Lyra (disambiguation)
  • Lyre (disambiguation)