porra
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin porrum (“leek”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
porra f (plural porres)
- club, baton
- Synonym: bastó
- (of a pool cue) butt
- Coordinate term: fletxa
- (colloquial) sweepstake
Further reading edit
- “porra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “porra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “porra”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
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porra
Latin edit
Noun edit
porra
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
- p**** (censored)
Etymology edit
From porro.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
porra f (plural porras)
- (archaic) club (heavy stick used as a weapon)
- (Brazil, vulgar) cum, spunk (UK), spooge (US), jizz, jizzum, jism
- (Brazil, vulgar, pornography) cumshot
- Synonym: ejaculação
- (Portugal, vulgar) penis
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis
- (informal or vulgar) shit, fuck; (often worthless) stuff, thing
- Synonyms: caralho, droga, merda, porcaria
- Tire esta porra daqui! ― Get this shit out of here!
- Mas que porra é esta? Não foi isso que pedi.
- What the fuck is this? That's not what I ordered.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Interjection edit
porra!
Usage notes edit
- The sense of the intensifier and the interjection is merely informal in Portugal, while being vulgar in Brazil.
Romani edit
Noun edit
porra
- nominative plural of porr
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin porrum (“leek”). Compare English porray (“a type of stew”), as well as English porridge.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
porra f (plural porras)
- club, baton, truncheon, nightstick (a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer)
- Synonyms: clava, cachiporra
- (Spain) thick type of churro
- Coordinate term: churro
- (colloquial) sweepstake (about an event, e.g. a football match)
Derived terms edit
Interjection edit
porra
Adjective edit
porra
Further reading edit
- “porra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014