Description:

The term 'zira' pertains to dress or decoration.

Noun:

As a noun, 'zira' means dress, decoration or deportment of some object as a whole (not a single decoration). It is also a general word for clothing (in which case it is singular if it refers to a person's outfit, and plural if it refers to articles of clothing not being word (paucal if referring to a portion or set number, as expected).

Zira has devleoped an alternative sense in the world of computing beyond Davidson's original intent. A worn electronic device can be referred to as 'ny zira', or to disambiguate, 'ny zira taw'. Worn, specific-purpose devices like exercise trackers can be refered to as 'zirawala'.

Verb:

As a verb, 'zira' is an intransitive pali verb meaning to dress or to be decorated, or to put something. It takes an absolutive subject which is the person dressing, with the implication that they are dressing themselves. It is used broadly and can include things like putting on make-up and jewelery as well. It can take a prepositional argument introduced by the null preposition 'y' which is an article of clothing or outfit being put on.

It is also commonly used in a causative skurun form taking an ergative subject that dresses the absolutive object.

The negative form 'ikzira' has the opposite sense of undress or take something off, and otherwise works the same way as zira.

Example:

A cejátuin sea ikzira na palto.
The man took off the coat.