parra

parra (plural parras, diminutive parratjie)

1. (colloquial) Alternative form of padda
2. (crude, slang) vagina; female genitalia

Borrowed from Portuguese parar (“to halt, to stop”).

parra (present parra, present participle parraende, past participle geparra)

1. (fishing) to stop a fishing boat and wait; to keep a boat in a certain position
2. (fishing, imperative) row slower

parra inan

1. Nonstandard form of barre.

Uncertain. Possibly from Gothic *𐍀𐌰𐍂𐍂𐌰 (*parra), *𐍀𐌰𐍂𐍂𐌰𐌽𐍃 (*parrans, “trellis; fencing”) or from a pre-Indo-European root of similar meaning.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpa.rə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈpa.ra]

parra f (plural parres)

1. trellised vine
2. grapevine

   Synonym: vinya

• parral
• parrús
• parrella, barrella

• “parra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From Arabic بَرًّا (barran).

parra

1. outside

parra f

1. forest
2. outside

• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 154

From Proto-Italic *parezā, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *spḗr (“sparrow, bird”). Cognate with English sparrow.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpar.ra/, [ˈpärːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpar.ra/, [ˈpärːä]

parra f (genitive parrae); first declension

1. A bird of ill omen; perhaps the barn owl

First-declension noun.

• “parra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• parra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Medieval Latin parricus (“enclosure, fence”).

• Hyphenation: par‧ra

parra f (plural parras)

1. shoot or stem of a vine with leaves

   Synonym: pâmpano

2. excessive pride, bragging

   Synonym: bazófia

• parrudo

Possibly from Gothic *𐍀𐌰𐍂𐍂𐌰 (*parra), *𐍀𐌰𐍂𐍂𐌰𐌽𐍃 (*parrans, “trellis; fencing”). Cf. Medieval Latin parricus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpara/ [ˈpa.ra]
• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: pa‧rra

parra f (plural parras)

1. grapevine (the plant on which grapes grow)

   Synonym: vid

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