birra

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.

• birrova

• Briar, Ribar, briar

From Italian birra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbirːɑ/, [ˈbirːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -irːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): bir‧ra

birra (slang)

1. beer

birra

1. leaf

Borrowed from German Bier.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbir.ra/

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• Rhymes: -irra
• Hyphenation: bìr‧ra

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?

• → 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

• barri, barrì

From Italian birra.

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

birra f (genitive birrae); first declension

1. (New Latin) beer

   Synonym: biria

   • 1557, Scaliger, Iulius Caesar, Exotericarum exercitationum Liber XV, de subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Cardanum, section 87, pages 320–322:
   • 1557, Scaliger, Iulius Caesar, Exotericarum exercitationum Liber XV, de subtilitate, ad Hieronymum Cardanum, section 153.5, pages 524–525:

First-declension noun.

Borrowed from Italian birra, from Old High German bior, from Proto-Germanic *beuzą, of uncertain origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɪr.ra/

birra f (plural birer)

1. beer

From Proto-Samic *pirë.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈpirra/

birra

1. around

birra

1. around
2. about, concerning

• 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

• Hyphenation: bir‧ra

Borrowed from Spanish birria, from Vulgar Latin *verrea, from verres (“boar”).

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

birra

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

From Italian birra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbirra/

birra f (plural birras)

1. beer

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

birra f (plural birri)

1. beer
2. beer, a glass of beer

Borrowed from Italian birra, itself borrowed from German Bier (“beer”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbira/ [ˈbi.ra]
• Rhymes: -ira
• Syllabification: bi‧rra

birra f (plural birras)

1. beer

   Synonyms: cerveza, (Ecuador) biela, (Mexico) chela, rubia

2. beer, glass of beer

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

• bĭrɑ

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)

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)