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

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Etymology 1

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From Scottish Gaelic Barraigh.

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Barra

  1. An island in Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
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Etymology 2

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From Portuguese Barra.

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Barra

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

Etymology 3

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From the creolized trade language of the river Gambia.[1]

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Barra

  1. A place in the Gambia.

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  1. ^ Wright, Donald R. (1997) The World and a Very Small Place in Africa[1], M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN

Nheengatu

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Etymology

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

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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.

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

Portuguese

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Barra

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