birra

English

Contraction

birra

  1. (UK, dialect, informal) Contraction of bit of.
    • 2011, Kate Rigby, Suckers n Scallies:
      All the screaming in the night that gets in your head and it's not like you're getting your end away no more neither cause she's too shagged for fancy knickers and a birra cut and thrust, now that you've got the kid.

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Finnish

Etymology

From Italian birra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbirːɑ/, [ˈbirːɑ]
  • Rhymes: -irːɑ
  • Syllabification(key): bir‧ra

Noun

birra

  1. (slang) beer

Declension

Inflection of birra (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative birra birrat
genitive birran birrojen
partitive birraa birroja
illative birraan birroihin
singular plural
nominative birra birrat
accusative nom. birra birrat
gen. birran
genitive birran birrojen
birrainrare
partitive birraa birroja
inessive birrassa birroissa
elative birrasta birroista
illative birraan birroihin
adessive birralla birroilla
ablative birralta birroilta
allative birralle birroille
essive birrana birroina
translative birraksi birroiksi
instructive birroin
abessive birratta birroitta
comitative birroineen
Possessive forms of birra (type kala)
possessor singular plural
1st person birrani birramme
2nd person birrasi birranne
3rd person birransa

Guugu Yimidhirr

Noun

birra

  1. leaf

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Bier.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbir.ra/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -irra
  • Hyphenation: bìr‧ra

Noun

birra f (plural birre)

  1. beer
    Mi piace la birra.I like beer.
  2. beer, glass of beer
    Vuoi una birra?Do you want a beer?

Descendants

  • Arabic: بيرة (bīra)
  • Egyptian Arabic: بيرة (bīra)
  • Moroccan Arabic: بيرة (bīrra)
  • Cimbrian: bira
  • Greek: μπίρα (bíra)
  • Maltese: birra
  • Spanish: birra
  • Ottoman Turkish: بیرا (bira)
    • Turkish: bira
    • Armenian: պիրա (pira)
  • Venetian: bira

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Latin

Etymology

From Italian birra.

Pronunciation

Noun

birra f (genitive birrae); first declension

  1. (New Latin) beer

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative birra birrae
Genitive birrae birrārum
Dative birrae birrīs
Accusative birram birrās
Ablative birrā birrīs
Vocative birra birrae

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian birra, from Old High German bior, from Proto-Germanic *beuzą, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɪr.ra/

Noun

birra f (plural birer)

  1. beer

Northern Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *pirë.

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈpirra/

Adverb

birra

  1. around

Ambiposition

birra

  1. around
  2. about, concerning

Further reading

  • Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbi.ʁɐ/ [ˈbi.hɐ]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈbi.ʁɐ/ [ˈbi.χɐ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbi.ʁa/ [ˈbi.ha]

  • Hyphenation: bir‧ra

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish birria, from Vulgar Latin *verrea, from verres (boar).

Noun

birra f (plural birras)

  1. (uncountable) obstinacy (state of stubbornness)
    Synonym: teimosia
  2. an act proper of a spoilt or stubborn person
    Synonyms: embirração, embirra, pirraça

Verb

birra

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

Sardinian

Etymology

From Italian birra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbirra/

Noun

birra f (plural birras)

  1. beer

Sicilian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbiʐ.ʐa/
  • Hyphenation: bìr‧ra

Noun

birra f (plural birri)

  1. beer
  2. beer, a glass of beer

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian birra, itself borrowed from German Bier (beer).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbira/ [ˈbi.ra]
  • Rhymes: -ira
  • Syllabification: bi‧rra

Noun

birra f (plural birras)

  1. beer
    Synonyms: (Ecuador) biela, cerveza, (Mexico) chela, rubia
  2. beer, glass of beer

Further reading


Wiradhuri

Alternative forms

  • bĭrɑ

Noun

birra

  1. back
    • 1846, Horatio Hale, Ethnography and philology, vol. VI of Reports of the United States Exploring Expedition, under the command of Charles Wilkes
      bĭrɑ, mɑ̄r, gɑ́rbɑ back (different parts of)
    • 1904, R. H. Mathews, The Wiradyuri and other languages of New South Wales, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 34
      Back .... .... .... birra.

Adjective

birra

  1. tired
    • 1892, James Günther, Grammar and Vocabulary of the Aboriginal Dialect called the Wirradhuri, in John Fraser (ed.), An Australian Language
      Birra—tired, fatigued.
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