برا
See also: بڑا
Arabic edit
Etymology edit
Adverbial accusative of بَرّ (barr, “land”).
Adverb edit
بَرًّا • (barran)
Descendants edit
- Egyptian Arabic: برا (barra)
- Maltese: barra
- Moroccan Arabic: برا (barra)
- South Levantine Arabic: برا (barra)
- → Azerbaijani: bərrən
- → Ottoman Turkish: براً (berren)
References edit
- Haywood, J.A., Nahmad, H.M. (1965) “برا”, in A new Arabic grammar, 2nd edition, London: Lund Humphries, →ISBN
Central Kurdish edit
Noun edit
برا (bra)
Related terms edit
- زڕبِرا (zirrbira)
Gulf Arabic edit
Alternative forms edit
- برة (barra)
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
بَرّا • (barra)
Preposition edit
بَرّا • (barra)
- outside of, out of
- Antonym: داخل (dāḵil)
- لحد يطلع برا البيت وكت الغبار
- laḥḥad yiṭlaʕ barra l-bēt wakt il-ġbār
- Nobody goes outside the house at the time of sandstorms (or at the time of the sandstorm)
Khalaj edit
Postposition edit
بَرا (bara)
- Arabic spelling of bara (“because of, in respect of”)
Laki edit
Noun edit
بِرا (bira)
Moroccan Arabic edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
برا • (barra)
Preposition edit
برا • (barra)
- outside
- Antonym: داخل (dāḵil)
- إدا سافرت برا البلاد غتتعرف بشلة تقافات وناس مختلفين عليك وتقدر تتعلم منهم كدا حاجة.
- ʔida sāfarti barra le-blād ḡatitʕarraf b-šalla taqāfāt w-nās miḵtalfīn ʕlīk w-taqdar titʕallam minnhum kada ḥāja.
- If you travel outside the country, you'll encounter many cultures and different people from you and you could learn many things from them.
Ottoman Turkish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic بَرًّا (barran), adverbial accusative of بَرّ (barr).
Adverb edit
براً • (berren)
- by land
Further reading edit
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “برا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 258
Persian edit
Preposition edit
برا • (barâ)
Descendants edit
- → Khalaj: bara
South Levantine Arabic edit
Root |
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ب ر ر |
3 terms |
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
برّا • (barra)
Derived terms edit
- بريت (barrīt, “outside”, preposition)
Urdu edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /bʊ.ɾɑː/
- Rhymes: -ɑː
- Hyphenation: بُ‧را
Adjective edit
بُرا • (burā) (Hindi spelling बुरा)
- bad (inc. all the broader meanings associated, ie. sinner, oppressor, dirty, disgraced etc.)
- Antonym: اَچھا (achā)
Declension edit
Declension of برا | |||||
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masculine | feminine | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
direct | بُرا (burā) | بُرے (bure) | بُری (burī) | بُری (burī) | |
indirect | بُرے (bure) | بُرے (bure) | بُری (burī) | بُری (burī) | |
vocative | بُرے (bure) | بُرے (bure) | بُری (burī) | بُری (burī) |
Further reading edit
- “برا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “برا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “برا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “برا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “برا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “برا”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC