What is "jira"

Jira or JIRA may refer to:

• Jira (given name)
• Jira (surname)
• Jira (software), a bug-tracking, issue-tracking and project-management software application
• Jira (Toho), also known as Gojira, Zilla, and Godzilla, a fictional giant dinosaur-like monster
• Jira, Iran, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
• Jira (nahiyah), a nahiyah (subdistrict) of Safad Sanjak under the Ottoman Empire
• Journal of Iranian Research and Analysis, a publication of the Center for Iranian Research and Analysis
• "Jira", name identifying cumin in the Sanskrit language

JIRA (stylized JIRA) is a proprietary issue tracking product, developed by Atlassian. It provides bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management functions. Although normally styled JIRA, the product name is not an acronym, but a truncation of Gojira, the Japanese name for Godzilla, itself a reference to JIRA's main competitor, Bugzilla. It has been developed since 2002.

Jira is a Thai given name.

Notable people bearing this name include:

• Jira Maligool, Thai film director
• Jira Wichitsongkhram, former Thai Minister of Defence

Jira is a middle-European surname.

People bearing the name include:

• Milan Jira (died 1935), Czech composer
• Thomas Jira (born 1951), German biochemist & academic
• Václav Jíra (1921–1992), Czech footballer
• Josef Jíra (1929–2005), Czech artist
• Martin Jira (born c. 1970), German music scholar
• Joachim Jira (born 1972), Austrian physicist