different between unemployed vs orra

English

Etymology

un- +? employed

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n?m?pl??d/
• Rhymes: -??d

Adjective

unemployed (not comparable)

1. Having no job despite being able and willing to work.

2. Having no use, not doing work

Synonyms

• jobless, see also Thesaurus:unemployed

Antonyms

• see Thesaurus:unemployed

Related terms

• unemployment

Translations

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