tira
Tagalog
verb
Definitions
- To shoot, to fire a weapon.
- To shoot a goal
- To inject or inhale a drug
- (informal) to have sex; to copulate
Etymology
Derived from Spanish, Castilian tirar (shoot, throw).
Origin
Spanish
tirar
Gloss
shoot, throw
Concept
Semantic Field
Warfare and hunting
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- tirāre, *tirō, *tiro Latin
- estirar Spanish, Castilian
- retirar Spanish, Castilian
- tiracantos Spanish, Castilian
- tirachinas Spanish, Castilian
- tirachinos Spanish, Castilian
- tiracuello Spanish, Castilian
- tirada Spanish, Castilian
- tiradero Spanish, Castilian
- tiraflechas Spanish, Castilian
- tiragomas Spanish, Castilian
- tirahojas Spanish, Castilian
- tiralíneas Spanish, Castilian
- tirapiedras Spanish, Castilian
- tirar Spanish, Castilian
- tirón Spanish, Castilian
- atirar Portuguese
- *teraną Proto-Germanic
- tira Cebuano
- tirador Tagalog