different between orra vs borra

English

Etymology

Probably originally a reduced form of over + all.

Adjective

orra (comparative more orra, superlative most orra)

1. (now Scotland) Superfluous; odd, unmatched, left over.
2. (now Scotland) Of people: idle, unemployed, disreputable. [from 16th c.]
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 16:

     But the bothy billies, the ploughmen and the orra men of the Mains, they'd never care for gentry except to mock at them […]

Anagrams

• Raro, roar

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?or??], [?o?r?]
• Hyphenation: or?ra

Etymology 1

orr (“nose”) +? -a (possessive suffix)

Noun

orra

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of orr

Declension

Derived terms

• borsot tör az orra alá

Etymology 2

orr (“nose”) +? -ra (case suffix)

Noun

orra

1. sublative singular of orr

Derived terms

• orra bukik

Irish

Pronoun

orra (emphatic orrasan)

1. Alternative form of orthu

Italian

Verb

orra

1. third-person singular present indicative of orrare
2. second-person singular imperative of orrare

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????/

Etymology 1

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

Noun

orra f (plural orrachan)

1. amulet, enchantment
2. a charm to effect something wonderful

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish forru. Cognates include Irish orthu and Manx orroo.

Pronoun

orra

1. third-person plural of air: on them

Inflection

Mutation

Further reading

• “orra” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• Malcolm MacLennan, editor (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: John Grant

English

Etymology

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

Noun

borra (uncountable)

1. leafy matter found in wax
   • 1950, Robert W. Pressing and Bradley J. Pettibone, US Patent 2531785, page 4:

     […] continuously discharging borra from said zone as a solid, removing the water from said slurry and mechanically recovering solid wax.

Anagrams

• Barro, arbor

Galician

Etymology

From Latin burra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bora?/

Noun

borra f (plural borras)

1. rough wool; flock (coarse tufts of wool used in bedding)
   • 1348, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 306:

     It. mando a mia cama. en que eu jasco. que som quatro almadraques. dos quaes ssom dous de ffroxel et huun dalgodon et outro de borra et con seu cabeçal et con duas colchas

     Item, I bequeath my bed, the one where I lie, which is made of four mattresses, two of them of down, one of cotton, and another of wool, with its pillow and two quilts [...]

2. sediment, grounds, dreg, tartar
3. ink (of a squid, octopus, etc)
4. ash; soot
5. meconium
6. (figuratively) vanity, arrogance, pride

Derived terms

References

• “borra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “borra” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “borra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “borra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “borra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hungarian

Etymology

From bor +? -ra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?bor??]
• Hyphenation: bor?ra

Noun

borra

1. sublative singular of bor

Derived terms

• borravaló

Irish

Etymology

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

Noun

borra m (genitive singular borra, nominative plural borraí)

1. barrow, hog

Declension

Mutation

References

• "borra" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “hog” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin burra.

Noun

borra f (plural borre)

1. waste
2. cotton

Anagrams

• barro, barrò

Maltese

Etymology

Uncertain. Bears possibly coincidental resemblance to Albanian borë (“snow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?r.r?/

Noun

borra f

1. snow
2. sleet

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Latin burra.

Noun

borra f (plural borras)

1. sediment, grounds (collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a body of water)

   Synonym: sedimento

Derived terms

• borra de café

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

borra

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of borrar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of borrar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bora/, [?bo.ra]

Etymology 1

From Latin burra. Cognate with English bureau and burel.

Noun

borra f (plural borras)

1. young female sheep
2. rough wool
3. flock (for mattress)
4. stuffing (for cushions)
5. cotton waste

Derived terms

• borrego

Descendants

• ? Tagalog: bura

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

borra

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of borrar.

Further reading

• “borra” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish bora, from Old Norse bora, from Proto-Germanic *bur?n?. Equivalent to borr +? -a.

Verb

borra (present borrar, preterite borrade, supine borrat, imperative borra)

1. to drill (make a hole using a drill)

Conjugation

Related terms

Anagrams

• broar