Lira (disambiguasi)

Lira may mean:

Money

• Lira, the currency of various countries, such as Italy (obsolete) and Turkey.

Places

• Lira, Salvaterra de Miño, a village in Galicia, NW of Spain
• Lira, Carnota, a village in Galicia, NW of Spain
• Lira, a town in northern Uganda
• Lira District, an administrative district in northern Uganda; its chief town is Lira.
• LIRA, the ICAO code for Ciampino Airport.

People

• Osvaldo Lira, Chilean priest, theologian and philosopher.
• Gonzalo Lira, Chilean-American novelist and film director.
• Lira, a fictional character in the Philippine television series Encantadia.
• Lira, a South African singer.

Music

• Alternate term for Lingm, a Bhutanese flute
• Lyre, an Ancient stringed musical instrument
• Lira (music), an Ukrainian folk musical instrument (see Lirnyk).
• Lira (instrument), an Ukrainian folk musical instrument similar to the hurdy gurdy.
• Lira da braccio, a European bowed string instrument played during the Renaissance
• Pontic lyra, a bowed string instrument played in the area of northern Turkey by several ethnic groups.
• Lyra (Cretan), a bowed string instrument of the Greek island of Crete
• Byzantine lyra, a bowed string instrument of the Byzantine Empire.
• Lira organizzata, an instrument similar to the hurdy gurdy.

Other

• Lira or Lyra class, the Russian name of a class of hunter/killer nuclear powered submarine, with a NATO reporting name of Alfa class.
• Liberal Reform Party, Czech political party
• LIRA, a Canadian Locked-In Retirement Account which is used to hold pension funds
• Lira (mollusc), lines or ridges on the shell of molluscs or brachiopods.
• Lira (ISS), a communications system.