birra
English
Contraction
birra
- (Britain, dialectal, 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.
- 2011, Kate Rigby, Suckers n Scallies
Related terms
Guugu Yimidhirr
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbir.ra/
Audio (file)
Noun
birra 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
- a tutta birra (“at full speed; flat out; at full tilt”)
- birraio (“brewer, beer seller”)
- birrario (“beer”) (attributive)
- birreria (“pub, brewpub, alehouse, brewery”)
- birretta (“beer”) (colloquial)
- birrificio (“brewery”)
Descendants
Maltese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɪrːɐ/
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish birria, from Vulgar Latin *verrea, from verres (“boar”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbi.ʁa/, /ˈbi.ʁɐ/
- (South Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbi.ha/
- Hyphenation: bir‧ra
Noun
birra f (plural birras)
Synonyms
- (obstinacy): teimosia
- (stubborn act): embirração, embirra, pirraça
Related terms
- birrado
- birrar
- birrento
- embirra
- embirração
- embirrado
- embirrança
- embirrância
- embirrante
- embirrar
- embirrativo
- embirrento
- embirrinchar
Sicilian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbiʐ.ʐa/
- Hyphenation: bìr‧ra
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbi.ra/
- Hyphenation: bi‧rra
Wiradhuri
Alternative forms
- bĭrɑ
Noun
birra
- 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.
- 1846, Horatio Hale, Ethnography and philology, vol. VI of Reports of the United States Exploring Expedition, under the command of Charles Wilkes
Adjective
birra
- tired
- 1892, James Günther, Grammar and Vocabulary of the Aboriginal Dialect called the Wirradhuri, in John Fraser (ed.), An Australian Language
- Birra—tired, fatigued.
- 1892, James Günther, Grammar and Vocabulary of the Aboriginal Dialect called the Wirradhuri, in John Fraser (ed.), An Australian Language
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