birra
English edit
Contraction edit
birra
- (UK, dialect, informal) Contraction of bit of.
- 2011, Kate Rigby, Suckers n Scallies:
- All the screaming in the night that gets in your head and it's not like you're getting your end away no more neither cause she's too shagged for fancy knickers and a birra cut and thrust, now that you've got the kid.
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Anagrams edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
birra (slang)
Declension edit
Inflection of birra (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | birra | birrat | ||
genitive | birran | birrojen | ||
partitive | birraa | birroja | ||
illative | birraan | birroihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | birra | birrat | ||
accusative | nom. | birra | birrat | |
gen. | birran | |||
genitive | birran | birrojen birrain rare | ||
partitive | birraa | birroja | ||
inessive | birrassa | birroissa | ||
elative | birrasta | birroista | ||
illative | birraan | birroihin | ||
adessive | birralla | birroilla | ||
ablative | birralta | birroilta | ||
allative | birralle | birroille | ||
essive | birrana | birroina | ||
translative | birraksi | birroiksi | ||
abessive | birratta | birroitta | ||
instructive | — | birroin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Guugu Yimidhirr edit
Noun edit
birra
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
birra f (plural birre)
- beer
- Mi piace la birra. ― I like beer.
- beer, glass of beer
- Vuoi una birra? ― Do you want a beer?
Related terms edit
- a tutta birra (“at full speed; flat out; at full tilt”)
- birraio (“brewer, beer seller”)
- birrario (“beer”) (relational)
- birreria (“pub, brewpub, alehouse, brewery”)
- birretta (“beer”) (colloquial)
- birrificio (“brewery”)
Descendants edit
- → Arabic: بيرة (bīra)
- → Egyptian Arabic: بيرة (bīra)
- → Moroccan Arabic: بيرة (bīrra)
- → Cimbrian: bira
- → Greek: μπίρα (bíra)
- → Maltese: birra
- → Spanish: birra
- → Ottoman Turkish: بیرا (bira)
- → Venetian: bira
- → Cimbrian: biira
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈbir.ra/, [ˈbɪrːä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbir.ra/, [ˈbirːä]
Noun edit
birra f (genitive birrae); first declension
- (New Latin) beer
- Synonym: biria
- 1557, Scaliger, Iulius Caesar, Exotericarum exercitationum Liber XV, de subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Cardanum, section 87, pages 320–322:
- 1557, Scaliger, Iulius Caesar, Exotericarum exercitationum Liber XV, de subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Cardanum, section 153.5, pages 524–525:
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | birra | birrae |
Genitive | birrae | birrārum |
Dative | birrae | birrīs |
Accusative | birram | birrās |
Ablative | birrā | birrīs |
Vocative | birra | birrae |
Maltese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian birra, from Old High German bior, from Proto-Germanic *beuzą, of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
birra f (plural birer)
Related terms edit
Northern Sami edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Samic *pirë.
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
birra
Ambiposition edit
birra
Further reading edit
- Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: bir‧ra
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Spanish birria, from Vulgar Latin *verrea, from verres (“boar”).
Noun edit
birra f (plural birras)
- (uncountable) obstinacy (state of stubbornness)
- Synonym: teimosia
- an act proper of a spoilt or stubborn person
- Synonyms: embirração, embirra, pirraça
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Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
birra
- inflection of birrar:
Sardinian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
birra f (plural birras)
Sicilian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
birra f (plural birri)
- beer
- beer, a glass of beer
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian birra, itself borrowed from German Bier (“beer”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
birra f (plural birras)
Further reading edit
- “birra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Wiradjuri edit
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
birra
- back
- 1846, Horatio Hale, Ethnography and philology, vol. VI of Reports of the United States Exploring Expedition, under the command of Charles Wilkes
- bĭrɑ, mɑ̄r, gɑ́rbɑ back (different parts of)
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1904, R. H. Mathews, The Wiradyuri and other languages of New South Wales, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 34
- Back .... .... .... birra.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1846, Horatio Hale, Ethnography and philology, vol. VI of Reports of the United States Exploring Expedition, under the command of Charles Wilkes
Adjective edit
birra
- tired
- 1892, James Günther, Grammar and Vocabulary of the Aboriginal Dialect called the Wirradhuri, in John Fraser (ed.), An Australian Language
- Birra—tired, fatigued.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1892, James Günther, Grammar and Vocabulary of the Aboriginal Dialect called the Wirradhuri, in John Fraser (ed.), An Australian Language
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