burra

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌɹə/
• Rhymes: -ʌɹə

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!”

• burra-khana

• “burra”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “burra”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

burra m pl

1. indefinite plural of burrë

burra f (plural burres)

1. donkey (a domestic animal)

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

burra m (genitive singular burra, nominative plural burraí)

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

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “burra”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From burrus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbur.ra/, [ˈbʊrːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbur.ra/, [ˈburːä]

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

First-declension noun.

burra

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

• “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.

• Hyphenation: bur‧ra

burra

1. feminine singular of burro

burra f (plural burras)

1. female equivalent of burro

Feminine of burro.

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

burra f (plural burras)

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

• borra

burra

1. feminine singular of burro

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

Likely onomatopoeic.

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

1. ruffle

Normally with particle upp.

• burra in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• burra upp in Svensk ordbok (SO)

• burar