Hira Explained

Hira may refer to:

Places

• Cave of Hira, a cave associated with Muhammad
• Al-Hirah, an ancient Arab city in Iraq
  • Battle of Hira, 633AD, between the Sassanians and the Rashidun Caliphate
• Hira Mountains, Japan
• Hira, New Zealand, settlement north-east of Nelson, New Zealand
• Hira (ghetto), an old Jewish ghetto in Tunis, see History of the Jews in Tunisia
• Hira (Greece), an ancient Greek settlement

Other uses

• Hira (surname)
• Hira (given name)
• Hira (mythical monster), among the Songhai people of West Africa
• The Hira Company Ltd, the parent company of Texet Sales Ltd, a British distributor of calculators and electronic devices
• HIRA, a gene
• Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment, a technique used to identify add address occupational safety and health risks
• "Hira", a song by Redgum from their 1984 album Frontline
• Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA), a government agency in South Korea
• , the ISO 15924 script code for Hiragana

See also

• Heera (disambiguation)
• Hiralal, an Indian male given name