birra

English

Contraction

birra

1. (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.

Related terms

• birrova

See also

• berra
• gerra
• gorra
• lorra
• norra
• worra

 

Anagrams

• Briar, briar

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Guugu Yimidhirr

Noun

birra

1. leaf

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Bier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbir.ra/

• Audio

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Noun

birra f (plural birre)

1. beer

   Mi piace la birra. ― I like beer.

2. beer, glass of beer

   Vuoi una birra? ― Do you want a beer?

Related terms

• 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”)

 

Descendants

• → Arabic: بيرة‎ (bīra)
• → Egyptian Arabic: بيرة‎ (bīra)
• → Moroccan Arabic: بيرة‎ (bīrra)
• → Cimbrian: bira
• → Greek: μπίρα (bíra)
• → Maltese: birra
• → Spanish: birra
• → Ottoman Turkish: بیرا‎ (bira)
  • Turkish: bira
  • → Armenian: պիրա (pira)
• → Venetian: bira
  • → Cimbrian: biira

Anagrams

• barri, barrì

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Latin

Etymology

From Italian birra.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbir.ra/, [ˈbɪrrä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbir.ra/, [ˈbirrɑ]

Noun

birra f (genitive birrae); first declension

1. (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:

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	birra	birrae
Genitive	birrae	birrārum
Dative	birrae	birrīs
Accusative	birram	birrās
Ablative	birrā	birrīs
Vocative	birra	birrae

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Maltese

Etymology

From Italian birra, from Old High German bior, from Proto-Germanic *beuzą, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɪr.ra/

Noun

birra f (plural birer)

1. beer

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Northern Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *pirë.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈpirra/

Adverb

birra

1. around

Ambiposition

birra

1. around
2. about, concerning

Further reading

• 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

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish birria, from Vulgar Latin *verrea, from verres (“boar”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.ʁa/, /ˈbi.ʁɐ/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.ha/
• Hyphenation: bir‧ra

Noun

birra f (plural birras)

1. (uncountable) obstinacy (state of stubbornness)

   Synonym: teimosia

2. an act proper of a spoilt or stubborn person

   Synonyms: embirração, embirra, pirraça

Related terms

• birrado
• birrar
• birrento
• embirra
• embirração
• embirrado
• embirrança
• embirrância
• embirrante
• embirrar
• embirrativo
• embirrento
• embirrinchar

 

Verb

birra

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of birrar
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of birrar

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Sardinian

Etymology

From Italian birra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bira/

Noun

birra f (plural birras)

1. beer

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Sicilian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiʐ.ʐa/
• Hyphenation: bìr‧ra

Noun

birra f (plural birri)

1. beer
2. beer, a glass of beer

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian birra, itself borrowed from German Bier (“beer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbira/, [ˈbi.ra]
• Hyphenation: bi‧rra

Noun

birra f (plural birras)

1. beer

   Synonyms: biela (Ecuador), cerveza, chela (Mexico), rubia

2. beer, glass of beer

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Wiradhuri

Alternative forms

• bĭrɑ

Noun

birra

1. 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.

Adjective

birra

1. tired
   • 1892, James Günther, Grammar and Vocabulary of the Aboriginal Dialect called the Wirradhuri, in John Fraser (ed.), An Australian Language

     Birra—tired, fatigued.