borra

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.

• Barro, arbor

From Latin burra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbora̝/

borra f (plural borras)

1. rough wool; flock (coarse tufts of wool used in bedding)
   • 1348, A. López Ferreiro (ed.), 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
3. ink (of a squid, octopus, etc)
4. ash; soot
5. meconium
6. (figuratively) vanity

• borralla

• “borra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “borra” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “borra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “borra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “borra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

bor +‎ -ra

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

borra

1. sublative singular of bor

   Nincs pénzünk borra. ― We don't have money for wine.

borra m (genitive singular borra, nominative plural borraí)

1. barrow, hog

• "borra" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

From Latin burra.

borra f (plural borre)

1. waste
2. cotton

• barro, barrò

Uncertain. Bears possibly coincidental resemblance to Albanian borë (“snow”).

borra f

1. snow

From Latin burra.

borra f (plural borras)

1. sediment, grounds (collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a body of water)

   Synonym: sedimento

• borra de café

borra

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of borrar
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of borrar

• IPA^(key): /ˈbora/

From Latin burra.

borra f (plural borras)

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

• borrego

• Tagalog: bura

See the etymology of the main entry.

borra

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of borrar.

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

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

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

1. to drill (make a hole using a drill)

• borr
• borrning
• uppborra