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burla

See also: Burla, burlá, and Burlă

Catalan

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Noun

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burla f (plural burles)

  1. mockery, taunt, ridicule
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Galician

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Burla Negra ("Black Joke"), the ship of Galician pirate Benito de Soto

Etymology 1

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Unknown. From Old Galician-Portuguese burla (13th century, earliest attestation of this word); probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.[1] Cognate with Portuguese burla, Spanish burla, Catalan burla.

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Noun

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burla m (plural burlas)

  1. mockery, joke
    Synonyms: chacota, moca
    • 1460, Rui Vasques, edited by J. A. Souto Cabo, Crónica de Santa María de Iria, page 93:
      porque a memoria da Eglleia de Yria he Ja quasy perdida, porende eu, querendo a alguũ tanto tornar a memoria dos que nõ saben nẽ creen Ja que fose obispado -ante o han por bulrra-
      because the memory of the Church of Iria is almost lost, then I, wanting to bring back this remembrance to those than don't know and no longer believe that Iria was a bishopric -they even take this for a joke-
  2. fraud
    Synonyms: engano, fraude
    • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago., Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 180:
      chegou a Panpelona et acaeçeu que lle morreu a moller y, et hũ ospede mao cõ que pousaua tomoulle quanto tragia por bulrra, et viose desanparado
      he arrived to Pamplona, and it happened that his wife died there, and a mean guest with whom he was staying took everything he was carrying using a fraud, and he found himself helpless
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  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “burla”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Gredos

Etymology 2

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Verb

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burla

  1. inflection of burlar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Irish

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbˠuːrˠl̪ˠə/

Noun

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burla m (genitive singular burla, nominative plural burlaí)

  1. bundle, roll, bale, plug, sheaf
  2. burly person
  3. lumpish, unsociable, person

Declension

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Declension of burla

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative burla burlaí
Vocative a bhurla a bhurlaí
Genitive burla burlaí
Dative burla burlaí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an burla na burlaí
Genitive an bhurla na mburlaí
Dative leis an mburla

don bhurla

leis na burlaí

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
burla bhurla mburla
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Italian

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbur.la/
  • Rhymes: -urla
  • Hyphenation: bùr‧la

Etymology 1

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Probably from Vulgar Latin *burrula,[1] diminutive of Late Latin burra (“nonsense, trickery”, literally “flock of wool”), possibly through the intermediate of Spanish burla.[2]

Noun

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burla f (plural burle)

  1. trick, prank, frolic, joke
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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burla

  1. inflection of burlare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

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  1. ^ burla in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  2. ^ burla in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore

Ladino

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Noun

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burla f (Latin spelling)

  1. joke
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Portuguese

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  • Hyphenation: bur‧la

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Spanish burla, of unknown origin.

Noun

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burla f (plural burlas)

  1. fraud
  2. mockery
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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burla

  1. inflection of burlar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbuɾla/ [ˈbuɾ.la]
  • Rhymes: -uɾla
  • Syllabification: bur‧la

Etymology 1

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Uncertain. The Real Academia Española suggests Vulgar Latin *burrula, from burrae, from Late Latin burra (“trifles; nonsense, trickery”) (compare, however, borla, which would be a doublet). Also see Italian burla. Possibly a cognate with English bureau.

Noun

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burla f (plural burlas)

  1. mockery, taunt, ridicule
  2. prank
    Synonym: broma
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Descendants
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  • →? Italian: burla
  • → Portuguese: burla

Etymology 2

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Verb

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burla

  1. inflection of burlar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Yagara

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Numeral

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burla

  1. two

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