برا
See also: بڑا
Arabic
editEtymology
editAdverbial accusative of بَرّ (barr, “land”).
Adverb
editبَرًّا • (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
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Iranian *bráHtā, Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰráHtā, From Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editNorthern Kurdish | bira |
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برا (bira)
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- Qazzaz, Shafiq (2000) “برا”, in The Sharezoor Kurdish–English dictionary, Erbil: Aras Press and Publishers, page 59
- Hejar (1990) “برا”, in Henbane borîne[1], Tehran: Soroush, page 50
- Wahby, T., Edmonds, C. J. (1966) “bira”, in A Kurdish-English Dictionary, page 17
Gulf Arabic
editAlternative forms
edit- برة (barra)
Etymology
editPronunciation
editAdverb
editبَرّا • (barra)
Preposition
editبَرّا • (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
editPostposition
editبَرا (bara)
- Arabic spelling of bara (“because of, in respect of”)
Laki
editNoun
editبِرا (bira)
Moroccan Arabic
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editAdverb
editبرا • (barra)
Preposition
editبرا • (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
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Arabic بَرًّا (barran), adverbial accusative of بَرّ (barr).
Adverb
editبراً • (berren)
- by land
Further reading
edit- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “برا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 258
Persian
editPreposition
editبرا • (barâ)
Descendants
edit- → Khalaj: bara
South Levantine Arabic
editRoot |
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ب ر ر |
3 terms |
Alternative forms
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editAdverb
editبرّا • (barra)
Derived terms
edit- بريت (barrīt, “outside”, preposition)
Southern Kurdish
editNoun
editبرا (bra)
Urdu
editPronunciation
edit- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /bʊ.ɾɑː/
- Rhymes: -ɑː
- Hyphenation: بُ‧را
Adjective
editبُرا • (burā) (comparative بدتر, superlative بدترین, Hindi spelling बुरा)
- bad (inc. all the broader meanings associated, ie. sinner, oppressor, dirty, disgraced etc.)
- Antonym: اَچّھا (acchā)
- disliked, ugly
- dirty
- oppressor
- wicked, evil
- injurious
Declension
editDeclension 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) |
Synonyms
editFurther 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
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