Taira

American  

[tahy-rah] / ˈtaɪ rɑ /

noun

1. a member of a powerful family in Japan that ruled the country 1160–85.

2. former name of Iwaki.

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Example Sentences

“We started living, not just surviving,” Skachkova said, sitting by the burning fireplace next to Rohovska and their two dogs, Delta and Taira.

From The Wall Street Journal

In one screen narrating the Battle of Yashima, Minamoto clan cavalry descend through a narrow pass to storm a Taira clan fortress.

From The Wall Street Journal

Across the gold-leaf ground, horsemen of the avant-garde charge into the indigo ocean, firing arrows in pursuit of the fleeing Taira clan boats.

From The Wall Street Journal

Vijay Taira, vice-president of the Kashmir Apple Merchants Association in the Azadpur fruit market in Delhi, says there's been an influx of Iranian apples in India's fruit markets.

From BBC

The people of Ukraine were represented by founder of a volunteer ambulance corps called Taira's Angels Yulia Pajevska, human rights lawyer Oleksandra Matviychuk and the exiled mayor of the occupied city of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov.

From Reuters