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borra (uncountable)
- 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.
- 1950, Robert W. Pressing and Bradley J. Pettibone, US Patent 2531785, page 4:
borra f (plural borres)
- fluff, waste fibers
- “borra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
borra f (plural borras)
- rough wool; flock (coarse tufts of wool used in bedding)
1348, A. López Ferreiro, editor, 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 [...]
- sediment, grounds, dreg, tartar
- ink (of a squid, octopus, etc)
- ash; soot
- meconium
- (figurative) vanity, arrogance, pride
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “borra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “borra”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “borra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “borra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “borra”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
borra
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borra m (genitive singular borra, nominative plural borraí)
radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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borra | bhorra | mborra |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “borra”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “hog”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
- IPA(key): /ˈbɔr.ra/, (traditional) /ˈbor.ra/[1]
- Rhymes: -ɔrra, (traditional) -orra
- Hyphenation: bòr‧ra, (traditional) bór‧ra
borra f (plural borre)
- ^ borra in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Borrowed from Sicilian burra; compare burrasca (“sudden rainfall, storm”). Most probably from Latin boreas (“north wind”), from Ancient Greek Βορέᾱς (Boréās), though compare also Latin burra (“rag, flock”), which might give the sense “snowflake”. In any case, the development from “rain” to “snow” is not unlikely in Malta, where what is considered “snow” is usually sleet, while actual snow is very rare.
borra f
borra f (plural borras)
- sediment, grounds (collection of small particles, particularly dirt, that precipitates from a body of water)
- Synonym: sedimento
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
borra
- inflection of borrar:
Inherited from Latin burra. Cognate with English bureau and burel.
borra f (plural borras)
- → Tagalog: bura
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
borra
- inflection of borrar:
- “borra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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)