åra
Appearance
See also: aara and Appendix:Variations of "ara"
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]åra m sg or f sg
Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]åra n pl
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]åra f
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]åra n
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse ár, from Proto-Germanic *airō (“oar”). Cognate with Finnish airo.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]åra c
- an oar
- Vem kan segla förutan vind, vem kan ro utan åror?(folk song lyrics)
- Who can sail without wind, who can row without oars?
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | åra | åras |
| definite | åran | årans | |
| plural | indefinite | åror | årors |
| definite | årorna | årornas |
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]- paddel (“paddle”)
References
[edit]- “åra”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
- “åra”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- “åra”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- åra in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
- åra in Svenskt nautiskt lexikon (1920)
Anagrams
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- Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Bokmål noun forms
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms with IPA pronunciation
- Norwegian Nynorsk non-lemma forms
- Norwegian Nynorsk noun forms
- Swedish terms derived from Old Norse
- Swedish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Swedish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- Swedish terms with usage examples
