birra
English
editContraction
editbirra
- (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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editFinnish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editbirra (slang)
Declension
editInflection of birra (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | |||
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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 birrain rare | |
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 | |
abessive | birratta | birroitta | |
instructive | — | birroin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Guugu Yimidhirr
editNoun
editbirra
Italian
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editbirra f (plural birre)
- beer
- Mi piace la birra. ― I like beer.
- beer, glass of beer
- Vuoi una birra? ― Do you want a beer?
Related terms
edit- a tutta birra (“at full speed; flat out; at full tilt”)
- birraio (“brewer, beer seller”)
- birrario (“beer”) (relational)
- birreria (“pub, brewpub, alehouse, brewery”)
- birretta (“beer”) (colloquial)
- birrificio (“brewery”)
Descendants
edit- → Arabic: بيرة (bīra)
- → Egyptian Arabic: بيرة (bīra)
- → Moroccan Arabic: بيرة (bīrra)
- → Cimbrian: bira
- → Greek: μπίρα (bíra)
- → Maltese: birra
- → Spanish: birra
- → Ottoman Turkish: بیرا (bira)
- → Venetian: bira
- → Cimbrian: biira
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editLatin
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈbir.ra/, [ˈbɪrːä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbir.ra/, [ˈbirːä]
Noun
editbirra f (genitive birrae); first declension
- (New Latin) beer
- Synonym: biria
- 1557, Scaliger, Iulius Caesar, Exotericarum exercitationum Liber XV, de subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Cardanum, section 87, pages 320–322:
- 1557, Scaliger, Iulius Caesar, Exotericarum exercitationum Liber XV, de subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Cardanum, section 153.5, pages 524–525:
Declension
editFirst-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | birra | birrae |
Genitive | birrae | birrārum |
Dative | birrae | birrīs |
Accusative | birram | birrās |
Ablative | birrā | birrīs |
Vocative | birra | birrae |
Maltese
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian birra, from Old High German bior, from Proto-Germanic *beuzą, of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbirra f (plural birer)
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editNorthern Sami
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Samic *pirë.
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editbirra
Ambiposition
editbirra
Further reading
edit- Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Portuguese
editPronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: bir‧ra
Etymology 1
editBorrowed from Spanish birria, from Vulgar Latin *verrea, from verres (“boar”).
Noun
editbirra f (plural birras)
- (uncountable) obstinacy (state of stubbornness)
- Synonym: teimosia
- an act proper of a spoilt or stubborn person
- Synonyms: embirração, embirra, pirraça
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editEtymology 2
editVerb
editbirra
- inflection of birrar:
Sardinian
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editbirra f (plural birras)
Sicilian
editPronunciation
editNoun
editbirra f (plural birri)
- beer
- beer, a glass of beer
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian birra, itself borrowed from German Bier (“beer”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbirra f (plural birras)
Further reading
edit- “birra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Wiradjuri
editAlternative forms
editNoun
editbirra
- 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)
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 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.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1846, Horatio Hale, Ethnography and philology, vol. VI of Reports of the United States Exploring Expedition, under the command of Charles Wilkes
Adjective
editbirra
- tired
- 1892, James Günther, Grammar and Vocabulary of the Aboriginal Dialect called the Wirradhuri, in John Fraser (ed.), An Australian Language
- Birra—tired, fatigued.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1892, James Günther, Grammar and Vocabulary of the Aboriginal Dialect called the Wirradhuri, in John Fraser (ed.), An Australian Language
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