Mira

Appendix:Variations of "mira" English Etymology 1 Named by the astronomer en Johannes Hevelius in 1662, from en la mīrus wonderful, surprising. Proper noun en star A binary star in the constellation Cetus, Omicron (ο) Ceti. The system contains a variable red giant and a white dwarf. Its brightness varies from a magnitude 2 at its brightest to a magnitude 10 at its dimmest. en Omicron Ceti en binary star en 2008 Helge Kragh The Moon that Wasn't: The Saga of Venus' Spurious Satellite Springer Science & Business Media 9783764389093 https://books.google.de/books?id=J2IJC7tM3QQC&lpg=PA80&dq=%22Mira%20ceti%22&pg=PA80#v=onepage&q=%22Mira%20ceti%22&f=false 80 The favoured explanation, adopted by Maraldi, was based on the assumption that the star was rotating and composed of two different parts, a bright and a dark region; if so, it might only be visible when the bright region turned towards Earth. Whatever the explanation, Mira had puzzled the astronomers because of its random character and the irregular periods between its observations. Translations star Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 蒭藁增二 Chúgǎozēng'èr Finnish: fi Mira French: fr Mira German: de Mira Portuguese: pt Mira f Russian: ru Мира Spanish: es Mira Etymology 2 Borrowed from en hi मीरा, name of a 16th century Indian poetess, also affectionately called Meera Mirabai. As occasionally borne by anglophones in the West, the name may also be borrowed from en sla, or be a short form of en Miranda. Proper noun Meera Mirabai, a 16th-century Indian poetess. en by extension en female India. en 1961 w:V. S. Naipaul A House for Mr Biswas 366 Penguin Books 1977 0140030255 Dorothy's daughters were of exceptional beauty and the sisters could complain only that the Hindi names Dorothy had chosen - Mira, Leela, Lena - were meant to pass as Western ones. Derived terms en mirasorvone Further reading Mira (given name) See also Sanchez-Mira Anagrams en aimr Rima raim rami AMIR Mari Amir RIMA Irma amir mair rima Rami RAIM Mair Faroese Proper noun fo proper noun f fo female Usage notes f Miruson Mirudóttir Declension Mira Miru Miru Miru Finnish Etymology A 20th century invention, borrowed from the fi sla diminutive of female names containing the element sla-pro *mirъ peace; also explained as a short form of fi it Mirabella and fi Mirjam, or derived from the fi la - name of the star. Pronunciation Proper noun fi female, popular from the 1970s to the 1990s fi star Mira. Declension Mir a Statistics dvv_20250813 7124 679 111 References Anagrams fi aimr Armi Irma Mari Rami armi mari rami rima German Etymology 1 Proper noun m de star Mira de 2007-08-16 Wundersamer Sprinter im All entdeckt Der Spiegel https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltall/sternen-schweif-wundersamer-sprinter-im-all-entdeckt-a-500321.html Astronomen haben an dem schon seit 400 Jahren bekannten Stern Mira eine überraschende Entdeckung gemacht: Der Himmelskörper im Sternbild Walfisch zieht einen kometenartigen Schweif hinter sich her. Er ist mit 13 Lichtjahren mehrere tausend Mal so lang wie unser Sonnensystem. Eine solche Beobachtung sei bisher noch nie gelungen, schreibt das Team um Mark Seibert von der Carnegie Institution im Fachblatt "Nature". https://web.archive.org/web/20251204164914/https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltall/sternen-schweif-wundersamer-sprinter-im-all-entdeckt-a-500321.html 4 December 2025 Declension m.sg Etymology 2 Proper noun f,s.gen:s:- de female Declension f,s[rare].gen:s:- Further reading Mira (Stern) de Mira (Vorname) de Italian Pronunciation Proper noun f it village p/Venice r/Veneto Anagrams it aimr armi mari rami rima Latin la: Etymology la-ren mīrae stēllae wonderful star, la Johannes Hevelius councillor astronomer Polish 1662 1. Pronunciation Mīra Proper noun Mīra<1> la Contemporary Latin star The star ο Ceti in the constellation Cetus.https://xing.fmi.uni-jena.de/mediawiki/index.php/Mira Declension Mīra<1> References Polish pl:+ Pronunciation LL-Q809 (pol)-Poemat-Mira.wav mira Etymology 1 pl :clipping Mirosława + 1 Proper noun f pl female Mira Declension Etymology 2 pl 1 Proper noun m-pr pl m Declension Mirowie Proper noun f Mirzyna Mirzanka pl f Declension Further reading Portuguese Etymology pt :der roa-opt:*Mira<ety:uder<xce:*mira<ety:uder<cel-pro:*mori<t:sea>>>>> 3 1 Pronunciation pt Pt-pt Mira FF.ogg Portugal pt mira pt Mi ra Proper noun f pt village/parish/and/municipality district:pref/Coimbra c/Portugal Derived terms pt Praia de Mira pt mirense Proper noun m pt river region/Alentejo c/Portugal Mira Derived terms pt Odemira Serbo-Croatian Etymology A hypocoristic form of sh Mìrjana, sh Mìrjam Pronunciation Míra Proper noun Míra f sh female Declension Mir Further reading Tagalog Pronunciation Proper noun + tl female Vilamovian Pronunciation wym Wym-Mira (wersja Józefa Gary).ogg Proper noun wym proper noun wym male Casimir