forro

From French feurre, from Old French fuerre, from Frankish *fodar, from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą, from Proto-Indo-European *pātróm (“food”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈfo.rʊ]

forro m (plural forros)

1. lining

• forrar

From Arabic حُرّ‎ (ḥurr, “free”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈfo.rʊ]

forro m (feminine singular forra, masculine plural forros, feminine plural forras)

1. (obsolete) free
2. (archaic) tax-free

• aforrar

• “forro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “forro” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “forro” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “forro” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “forro” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• fôrro (obsolete, noun and adjective)

From Arabic حُرّ‎ (ḥurr, “free”).

Cognate with Spanish horro and Swahili huru.

• Hyphenation: for‧ro

forro (feminine forra, masculine plural forros, feminine plural forras)

1. free; freed
2. enfranchised; emancipated

forro m (uncountable)

1. Forro; Sãotomense (a Portuguese-based creole spoken in São Tomé and Príncipe)

   Synonym: são-tomense

• aforrar

• alforria

From French feurre, from Old French fuerre, from Frankish *fodar, from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą, from Proto-Indo-European *pātróm (“food”).

• Hyphenation: for‧ro

forro m (plural forros)

1. lining
2. drop ceiling (secondary ceiling, hung below the structural ceiling)
3. an individual tile or plank of a drop ceiling

• Hyphenation: for‧ro

forro

1. first-person singular present indicative of forrar

From forrar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈforo/ [ˈfo.ro]
• Rhymes: -oro
• Syllabification: fo‧rro

forro m (plural forros)

1. lining
2. dust jacket

   Coordinate term: portada

3. (heraldry) fur
4. (Argentina) condom

   Synonym: preservativo

5. (Argentina) said to refer to people that are obnoxious, sometimes treacherous

   forro pinchado ― (please add an English translation of this usage example) (literally, “perforated condom”)

• forro polar

• forrar

forro

1. first-person singular present indicative of forrar

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