Lyra (disambiguation)
Lyra is a constellation.
Lyra may also refer to:
Music
Instruments
- Lyre, a stringed musical instrument used in ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Greece and elsewhere
- Lyres of Ur, a stringed musical instrument used in ancient Mesopotamia
- Byzantine lyra, a bowed string musical instrument used in the Byzantine Empire
- Lyra (Cretan), a bowed instrument used in folk music in Crete, Greece
- Lira Calabrese, a bowed instrument used in folk music in Calabria, Italy
- Lira da braccio, a European bowed string instrument of the Renaissance
- Kemenche, a bowed instrument used in folk music in Turkey, Greece and Iran
- RCA Lyra, a line of digital audio players
Songs / Compositions
- "Lyra" (song), a 2007 song by Kate Bush
- "Lyra", a song by Breaking Benjamin from the 2018 album Ember
- "Lyra", a song by Big Red Machine from their self-titled album
- Lyra, a composition for trumpet and piano by Hale A. VanderCook
People
- Lyra (name), people and fictional characters with the name
Places
- The Latin name of Lier, Belgium
- K. Lyra, a Lier football club
- K. Lyra-Lierse Berlaar, a Lier football club
- Lyra, Queensland, a locality in Australia
- Lyra, Ohio, a community in the United States
- Lyra Reef, a coral atoll in Oceania
Vessels
- HMS Lyra, the name of four ships of the Royal Navy
- Alfa-class submarine (Russian: Лира, Lyra), a class of hunter/killer nuclear powered submarines with a NATO reporting name of Alfa class
Other uses
- Lyra, aerial hoop used in circus performance
- Lyra (neuroanatomy) or psalterium, part of the brain
- Lyra (virtual assistant), an intelligent personal assistant
- Lyra, a novel series by Patricia Wrede
- Lyra (TV series), a Philippine television drama series
- Lyra (codec), a lossy audio codec
See also
- LYRA (Lyman Alpha Radiometer) – a solar ultraviolet radiometer
- Lira (disambiguation)
- Lyran (disambiguation)
- Lyria (disambiguation)
- Lyre (disambiguation)