birra

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.

Related terms

• birrova

See also

• berra
• gerra
• gorra
• lorra
• norra
• worra

 

Anagrams

• Briar, Ribar, briar

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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

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Guugu Yimidhirr

Noun

birra

1. leaf

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Bier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbir.ra/

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• 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?

Related terms

• 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

• → 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
  • → Cimbrian: biira

Anagrams

• barri, barrì

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Latin

Etymology

From Italian birra.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbir.ra/, [ˈbɪrːä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbir.ra/, [ˈbirːä]

Noun

birra f (genitive birrae); first declension

1. (New Latin) beer
   • 1557, Scaliger, Iulius Caesar, Exotericarum exercitationum Liber XV, de subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Cardanum, 87, pages 320–322:

   • 1557, Scaliger, Iulius Caesar, Exotericarum exercitationum Liber XV, de subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Cardanum, 153.5, page 524-525:

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

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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

Related terms

• birrajja (birrerija)
• birrar

 

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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

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.ʁɐ/ [ˈbi.hɐ]

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.ʁɐ/

• 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

Related terms

• birrado
• birrar
• birrento
• embirra
• embirração
• embirrado
• embirrança
• embirrância
• embirrante
• embirrar
• embirrativo
• embirrento
• embirrinchar

 

Verb

birra

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

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Sardinian

Etymology

From Italian birra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbirra/

Noun

birra f (plural birras)

1. beer

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Sicilian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

birra f (plural birri)

1. beer
2. beer, a glass of beer

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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

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

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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.