As a Hindi name
चीरना
to split, rend; to form a path, cut a way
चीरा · masculine
Śabdasāgara also records: एक प्रकार की लहरिएदार रंगीन कपडा जो पगडी बनाने के काम में आता है · गाँव की सीमा पर गाडा हुआ पत्थर या खंभा आदि
Platts (p. 470) also records: A turban made of parti-coloured cloth (see bāṅdhnū)
Cited formation "चीरा" is चीर + -आ: चीर means "a strip of material", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "चीरा" is चीरना + -आ: चीरना means "to split, rend", and the suffix -आ forms abstract, agent, action or instrumental nouns (masc.); also past participles. CHD Basic Grammar App. I §8(3) — cited from the extracted rule table
Cited formation "चीरा" is चीर + -आ: चीर means "a strip of material", and the suffix -आ forms 'having' (adjectives). CHD Basic Grammar App. I §9(1) — cited from the extracted rule table
a Hindi word of Prakrit origin; it is not Sanskrit — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
“Hindi verb set चिरना (cirnā) चीरना (cīrnā) चिराना (cirānā) चिरवाना (cirvānā) Etymology tree Sanskrit चीर (cīra) Prakrit चीर (cīra)der. Hindi चीरना Verbal derivative from Prakrit चीर (cīra, “a strip”), whence चीर (cīr, “a strip, rag”).” — per Wiktionary’s etymology record
a Hindi word; it is not Sanskrit
As a Sanskrit word
Meaning
a piece of cloth, rag
Verified derivationMultiple readings (6)Why this matches what you typed
M1 · same meaning "cīrā" is the feminine form of "cīra" — the same word with the feminine ending (nominative).
Dictionary citations
cīrā f. a piece of cloth, rag, VarBṛS. lxxxix, 1; Rājat. iv, 573
cīra n. (√ ci, Uṇ.) a strip, long narrow piece of bark or of cloth, rag, tatter, clothes, TĀr. vii, 4, 12; Gaut.; Mn. vi, 6; MBh. &c. (ifc. parox. Pāṇ. vi, 2, 127 & 135)
the dress of a Buddhist monk (cf. cīvara), W.
Alternative readings
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