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borra

See also: borrá, bórra, and bórrá

English

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borra (uncountable)

  1. leafy matter found in wax
    • 1950, Robert W. Pressing and Bradley J. Pettibone, US Patent 2531785, page 4:
      […] continuously discharging borra from said zone as a solid, removing the water from said slurry and mechanically recovering solid wax.

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin burra.

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borra f (plural borres)

  1. fluff, waste fibers

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Galician

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Etymology

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From Latin burra.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbora/ [ˈbo.rɐ]
  • Rhymes: -ora
  • Hyphenation: bo‧rra

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borra f (plural borras)

  1. rough wool; flock (coarse tufts of wool used in bedding)
    • 1348, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 306:
      It. mando a mia cama. en que eu jasco. que som quatro almadraques. dos quaes ssom dous de ffroxel et huun dalgodon et outro de borra et con seu cabeçal et con duas colchas
      Item, I bequeath my bed, the one where I lie, which is made of four mattresses, two of them of down, one of cotton, and another of wool, with its pillow and two quilts [...]
  2. sediment, grounds, dreg, tartar
  3. ink (of a squid, octopus, etc)
  4. ash; soot
  5. meconium
  6. (figurative) vanity, arrogance, pride

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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From bor +‎ -ra.

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  • IPA(key): [ˈborːɒ]
  • Hyphenation: bor‧ra

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borra

  1. sublative singular of bor
    Nincs pénzünk borra. ― We don't have money for wine.

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Irish

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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borra m (genitive singular borra, nominative plural borraí)

  1. barrow, hog

Declension

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Declension of borra (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative borra borraí
vocative a bhorra a bhorraí
genitive borra borraí
dative borra borraí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an borra na borraí
genitive an bhorra na mborraí
dative leis an mborra
don bhorra 		leis na borraí

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Mutated forms of borra
radical lenition eclipsis
borra bhorra mborra

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “borra”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • “hog”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024

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Etymology

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From Latin burra.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbɔr.ra/, (traditional) /ˈbor.ra/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ɔrra, (traditional) -orra
  • Hyphenation: bòr‧ra, (traditional) bór‧ra

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borra f (plural borre)

  1. waste
  2. cotton

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  1. ^ borra in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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Maltese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Sicilian burra; compare burrasca (“sudden rainfall, storm”). Most probably from Latin boreas (“north wind”), from Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās), though compare also Latin burra (“rag, flock”), which might give the sense “snowflake”. In any case, the development from “rain” to “snow” is not unlikely in Malta, where what is considered “snow” is usually sleet, while actual snow is very rare.

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borra f

  1. snow, sleet
    Synonym: (commoner) silġ

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Etymology 1

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From Latin burra.

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borra f (plural borras)

  1. sediment, grounds (collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a body of water)
    Synonym: sedimento
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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borra

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

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbora/ [ˈbo.ra]
  • Rhymes: -ora
  • Syllabification: bo‧rra

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Latin burra. Cognate with English bureau and burel.

Noun

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borra f (plural borras)

  1. young female sheep
  2. rough wool
  3. flock (for mattress)
  4. stuffing (for cushions)
  5. cotton waste
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  • → Tagalog: bura

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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borra

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

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Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Swedish bora, from Old Norse bora, from Proto-Germanic *burōną. Equivalent to borr +‎ -a.

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borra (present borrar, preterite borrade, supine borrat, imperative borra)

  1. (sometimes with upp, putting more emphasis on the result) to drill, to bore (make a hole with a drill or other boring instrument, through twisting and pressure)
    borra (upp) ett hål i en vägg
    drill a hole in a wall
    borra efter olja
    drill for oil

Conjugation

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Conjugation of borra (weak)
Active Passive
Infinitive borra borras
Supine borrat borrats
Imperative borra —
Imper. plural1 borren —
Present Past Present Past
Indicative borrar borrade borras borrades
Ind. plural1 borra borrade borras borrades
Subjunctive2 borre borrade borres borrades
Participles
Present participle borrande
Past participle borrad
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

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