orra

English

Etymology

Probably originally a reduced form of over + all.

Adjective

orra (comparative more orra, superlative most orra)

  1. (now Scotland) Superfluous; odd, unmatched, left over.
  2. (now Scotland) Of people: idle, unemployed, disreputable. [from 16th c.]
    • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 16:
      But the bothy billies, the ploughmen and the orra men of the Mains, they'd never care for gentry except to mock at them […]

Anagrams

Hungarian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈorːɒ]
  • Hyphenation: or‧ra

Etymology 1

orr (“nose”) +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

Noun

orra

  1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of orr
Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative orra —
accusative orrát —
dative orrának —
instrumental orrával —
causal-final orráért —
translative orrává —
terminative orráig —
essive-formal orraként —
essive-modal orrául —
inessive orrában —
superessive orrán —
adessive orránál —
illative orrába —
sublative orrára —
allative orrához —
elative orrából —
delative orráról —
ablative orrától —
Derived terms

Etymology 2

orr (“nose”) +‎ -ra (case suffix)

Noun

orra

  1. sublative singular of orr
    orra bukik ― s/he tumbles, s/he falls to the ground (literally, “s/he falls onto the nose”)
Derived terms

Irish

Pronoun

orra (emphatic orrasan)

  1. Alternative form of orthu

Italian

Verb

orra

  1. third-person singular present indicative of orrare
  2. second-person singular imperative of orrare

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

orra f (plural orrachan)

  1. amulet, enchantment
  2. a charm to effect something wonderful
  • an orra-bhalbh (“an amulet to prevent one's agent to make a defense in a court of justice”)
  • orra-an-donais (“amulet to send one's foe to the mischief”)
  • orra-chomais (“an amulet to deprive a man of his virility (especially on the marriage night)”)
  • orra-ghràidh (“an amulet to provoke unlawful love”)
  • orra-ghrùdaire (“an amulet to make every drop of the wash to overflow the wash-tuns”)
  • orra-na-h-aoine (“an amulet to drown a foe”)
  • orra-sheamlachais (“an amulet to make a cow allow the calf of another cow to suck her”)

Pronoun

orra (emphatic orrasan)

  1. third-person plural of air: on them

See also

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
orran-orrah-orrat-orra
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
  • A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)
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