orra

English

Etymology

Probably originally a reduced form of over + all.

Adjective

orra (comparative more orra, superlative most orra)

1. (now Scotland) Superfluous; odd, unmatched, left over.
2. (now Scotland) 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 […]

Anagrams

• Raro, roar

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈorːɒ], [ˈoːrɒ]
• Hyphenation: or‧ra

Etymology 1

orr (“nose”) +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

Noun

orra

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

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	orra	—
accusative	orrát	—
dative	orrának	—
instrumental	orrával	—
causal-final	orráért	—
translative	orrává	—
terminative	orráig	—
essive-formal	orraként	—
essive-modal	orrául	—
inessive	orrában	—
superessive	orrán	—
adessive	orránál	—
illative	orrába	—
sublative	orrára	—
allative	orrához	—
elative	orrából	—
delative	orráról	—
ablative	orrától	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	orráé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	orráéi	—

Derived terms

• borsot tör az orra alá

Etymology 2

orr (“nose”) +‎ -ra (case suffix)

Noun

orra

1. sublative singular of orr

   orra bukik ― s/he tumbles, s/he falls to the ground (literally, “s/he falls onto the nose”)

Derived terms

• orra bukik

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Irish

Pronoun

orra (emphatic orrasan)

1. Alternative form of orthu

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Italian

Verb

orra

1. third-person singular present indicative of orrare
2. second-person singular imperative of orrare

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

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Noun

orra f (plural orrachan)

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

Related terms

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

 

Etymology 2

Pronoun

orra (emphatic orrasan)

1. third-person plural of air: on them

Related terms

• air
• iad

See also

• prepositional pronoun

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
orra	n-orra	h-orra	t-orra
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “orra”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)