tirma
See also: Tirma
English
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Noun
edittirma (plural tirmas)
- (obsolete, Scotland, dialect, Hebrides) A bird, the oystercatcher.
References
edit- “tirma”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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editMaltese
editEtymology
editCompare to Moroccan Arabic ترمة (tarma, “ass, buttocks”) and Tunisian Arabic ترمة (tirma, “ass, buttocks”). The term possibly traces back to an old dialect word "ṯulma", meaning breach, hole, gap.[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittirma f (plural triemi)
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