birra
EnglishEdit
ContractionEdit
birra
- (Britain, 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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Guugu YimidhirrEdit
NounEdit
birra
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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 termsEdit
- a tutta birra (“at full speed; flat out; at full tilt”)
- birraio (“brewer, beer seller”)
- birrario (“beer”) (attributive)
- birreria (“pub, brewpub, alehouse, brewery”)
- birretta (“beer”) (colloquial)
- birrificio (“brewery”)
DescendantsEdit
- → 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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LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
birra f (genitive birrae); first declension
- (New Latin) beer
- 1557, Scaliger, Iulius Caesar, Exotericarum exercitationum Liber XV, de subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Cardanum, 87, pages 320–322:
- 1557, Scaliger, Iulius Caesar, Exotericarum exercitationum Liber XV, de subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Cardanum, 153.5, page 524-525:
DeclensionEdit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | birra | birrae |
Genitive | birrae | birrārum |
Dative | birrae | birrīs |
Accusative | birram | birrās |
Ablative | birrā | birrīs |
Vocative | birra | birrae |
MalteseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Italian birra, from Old High German bior, from Proto-Germanic *beuzą, of uncertain origin.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
birra f (plural birer)
Northern SamiEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Samic *pirë.
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
birra
AmbipositionEdit
birra
Further readingEdit
- 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
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Spanish birria, from Vulgar Latin *verrea, from verres (“boar”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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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VerbEdit
birra
- Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você?) present indicative of birrar
- Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of birrar
SardinianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
birra f (plural birras)
SicilianEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
birra f (plural birri)
- beer
- beer, a glass of beer
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Italian birra, itself borrowed from German Bier (“beer”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
birra f (plural birras)
WiradhuriEdit
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
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)
- 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.
- 1846, Horatio Hale, Ethnography and philology, vol. VI of Reports of the United States Exploring Expedition, under the command of Charles Wilkes
AdjectiveEdit
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.
- 1892, James Günther, Grammar and Vocabulary of the Aboriginal Dialect called the Wirradhuri, in John Fraser (ed.), An Australian Language