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burra

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Hindi बड़ा (baṛā, “large, important”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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burra (not comparable)

  1. (India) Big or important, used as a respectful honorific.
    Synonym: bada
    • 1997, John H. Esterline, Mae H. Esterline, Innocents Abroad: How We Won the Cold War, page 27:
      The most burra of burra sahibs resided in spacious, columned villas within the exclusive enclave of Alipore.
    • 2017, Lila Lee, The Lotus Blossom:
      Later she served the curried meal on an English blue and white flow-blue platter. “Spicy like my Maharanee. A burra meal, fit for a prince of India!”

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Albanian

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Noun

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burra m pl

  1. indefinite plural of burrë

Asturian

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Noun

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burra f (plural burres)

  1. donkey (a domestic animal)

Irish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle English burre, perhaps from Old English byrst (“bristle”).

Noun

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burra m (genitive singular burra, nominative plural burraí)

  1. (engineering, metallurgy) burr
  2. Alternative form of barra (“bar; (sand)bar; tack”)

Declension

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Declension of burra

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative burra burraí
Vocative a bhurra a bhurraí
Genitive burra burraí
Dative burra burraí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an burra na burraí
Genitive an bhurra na mburraí
Dative leis an mburra

don bhurra

leis na burraí

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
burra bhurra mburra
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Latin

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Etymology

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From burrus.

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Noun

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burra f (genitive burrae); first declension

  1. A small cow with a red mouth or muzzle
  2. A shaggy garment
    1. (Late Latin) (plural) trifles, nonsense

Declension

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative burra burrae
Genitive burrae burrārum
Dative burrae burrīs
Accusative burram burrās
Ablative burrā burrīs
Vocative burra burrae

Descendants

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Adjective

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burra

  1. inflection of burrus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

References

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  • “burra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • burra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • burra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: bur‧ra

Adjective

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burra

  1. feminine singular of burro

Noun

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burra f (plural burras)

  1. female equivalent of burro

Spanish

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Etymology

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Feminine of burro.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbura/ [ˈbu.ra]
  • Rhymes: -ura
  • Syllabification: bu‧rra

Noun

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burra f (plural burras)

  1. female equivalent of burro; jenny, jenny-ass, she-ass
  2. (colloquial) bicycle

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Adjective

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burra

  1. feminine singular of burro

Further reading

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Swedish

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Etymology

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Likely onomatopoeic.

Verb

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burra (present burrar, preterite burrade, supine burrat, imperative burra)

  1. ruffle

Usage notes

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Normally with particle upp.

Conjugation

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Conjugation of burra (weak)
Active Passive
Infinitive burra burras
Supine burrat burrats
Imperative burra —
Imper. plural1 burren —
Present Past Present Past
Indicative burrar burrade burras burrades
Ind. plural1 burra burrade burras burrades
Subjunctive2 burre burrade burres burrades
Participles
Present participle burrande
Past participle —
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

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