orra

English

Etymology

Probably originally a reduced form of over + all.

Adjective

orra (comparative more orra, superlative most orra)

1. (now Scotland) Superfluous; especially (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 [...].

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Hungarian

Etymology

orr (“nose”) + -a (“his, her, its”)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈorːɒ/
• Hyphenation: or‧ra

Noun

orra

1. possessive third-person singular, singular possession of orr

Declension

declension of orra singular plural nominative orra - accusative orrát - dative orrának - instrumental orrával - causal-final orráért - translative orrává - terminative orráig - essive-formal orraként - essive-modal - - inessive orrában - superessive orrán - adessive orránál - illative orrába - sublative orrára - allative orrához - elative orrából - delative orráról - ablative orrától -

Derived terms

• borsot tör az orra alá

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Scottish Gaelic

Noun

orra f (plural orrachan)

1. amulet or enchantment
2. a charm to effect something wonderful

Related terms

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

Pronoun

orra

1. on them

Derived terms

• orrasan

Related terms

• air
• iad

See also

• prepositional pronoun

References

• The Illustrated Gaelic-English Dictionary (Birlinn Limited, 1901-1911, Compiled by Edward Dwelly)
• A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)