Barra

See also: barra, bárra, bárrá, barrá, and bårrå

English

Etymology 1

From Scottish Gaelic Barraigh.

Pronunciation

• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɹə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbæɹə/
• (General American, without the Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈbæɹə/
• (General American, Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛɹə/
• Rhymes: -æɹə

Proper noun

Barra

1. An island in Outer Hebrides, Scotland.

Translations

Island in Outer Hebrides, Scotland

• Scottish Gaelic: Barraigh

See also

• Barra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Portuguese Barra.

Proper noun

Barra

1. A district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where most venues of the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics were situated.

Etymology 3

From the creolized trade language of the river Gambia.

Proper noun

Barra

1. A place in the Gambia.
   • 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, pages 300–301:

     I got used to seeing Lamin’s disembodied head in a corner, smiling at me, streaming at us live from, I presumed, the only internet café in Barra.

Nheengatu

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Portuguese Barra do Rio Negro, the former name of the city in the 19th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbara/, (Rio Negro) [ˈba.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -ara

Proper noun

Barra

1. Manaus (a municipality, the state capital of Amazonas, Brazil)
   • 1909, Frederico Benício de Sousa Costa, “Kiti”, in “Nheengatú rupi: vocabulario miri”, in Carta pastoral de D. Frederico Costa, Bispo do Amazonas a seus amados diocesanos, Fortaleza: Typ. Minerva, page 195:

     Xa-çú Barra kiti […]

     I go to Manaus.

References

• Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “Barra”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 289

Portuguese

Proper noun

Barra

1. a municipality of Bahia, Brazil
2. a municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil