Word.ws English Dictionary

Chira

Chira is the alternative form of Qira.

Meaning of Qira

Proper noun

Qira

  1. A county of Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
    • Passing through Qira County on our way, we were asked to stay by Wang Yijun, Director of the Office of the County Party Committee. He said he was an amateur archaeologist and an old acquaintance of Li Yuchun’s. In 1978 the two men had gone together to the desert in northern Qira County to survey a...1989, 车慕奇 [Che Muqi], “Visit to an Ancient City Buried in the Desert”, in 丝绸之路今昔 [The Silk Road, Past and Present], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, Newly Discovered Relics in the...
  2. A town in Qira, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
  3. A township in Qira, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

Origin of Chira

Borrowed from Uyghur چىرا (chira).

Questions about Chira

What is Chira the alternative form of?
Chira is the alternative form of Qira.

Words near Chira in the dictionary

  1. Chiquitoan
  2. Chiquitoans
  3. Chiquitos
  4. chir
  5. chir-
  6. Chira
  7. Chirag
  8. chiragon
  9. chiragons
  10. chiragra
  11. chiragric

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Chira (page history and authors); Qira (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Chira.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/chira. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.