77%RatingSave Gender Feminine Usage Italian, Spanish Pronounced Pron. DZIE-ra(Italian) THIE-ra(European Spanish) SIE-ra(Latin American Spanish) [key·IPA] Meaning & HistoryExpand Links Italian and Spanish form of Zaïre. It was used by Vincenzo Bellini for the heroine of his opera Zaira (1829), which was based on Voltaire's 1732 play Zaïre. PopularityDetails Last ranked #820 in 1960 Brazil (by decade) Last ranked #87 in 2001 Catalonia, Spain Last ranked #41 in 2006 Galicia, Spain Last ranked #99 in 2006 Spain Categories flowers, Italian Westerns
