panarra
Catalan
FWOTD – 29 April 2013
Etymology
From pa (“bread”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /pəˈna.rə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /paˈna.ra/
Adjective
panarra (masculine and feminine plural panarres)
- (of a person) who eats a lot of bread, bread-loving
- 1887, Bosch de la Trinxeria, Recorts d'un excursionista, page 38:
- Com és tan panarra, quan ha acabat lo pa, sol pendre lo pa de sos veins.
- Since he is so bread-loving, when he has finished the bread, he usually steals that of his neighbors.
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Synonyms
- paner
- panisser
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin *pennaria.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /paˈnara/ [paˈna.ra]
- Rhymes: -ara
- Syllabification: pa‧na‧rra
Noun
panarra m (plural panarras)
- bat (winged mammal)
- Había un panarra viviendo en el desván de la casa.
- There was a bat living in the house's attic.
- Synonym: murciélago
- Había un panarra viviendo en el desván de la casa.
- (colloquial) simpleton
- Synonyms: bobo, ingenuo, simplón, tonto
Further reading
- “panarra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014