Daira

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) Any of several valuable estates of the Egyptian khedive or his family. The most important are the Da"i*ra Sa"ni*eh (/), or Sa"ni*yeh, and the Da"i*ra Khas"sa, administered by the khedive's European bondholders, and known collectively as the Daira, or the Daira estates.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

in Greek mythology, "the omniscient," a divine being in the Eleusinian Mysteries, mother of Eleusis, by Mercury, is declared one sometimes with Venus, sometimes with Ceres, also with Juno and Proserpina.