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See also: Tirma
English
[edit]Etymology
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Noun
[edit]tirma (plural tirmas)
- (obsolete, Scotland, dialect, Hebrides) A bird, the oystercatcher.
References
[edit]- “tirma”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Maltese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare to Moroccan Arabic ترمة (tarma, “ass, buttocks”) and Tunisian Arabic ترمة (tirma, “ass, buttocks”). The term possibly traces back to an old dialect word "ṯulma", meaning breach, hole, gap.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tirma f (plural triemi)