sorra

English

Noun

sorra (countable and uncountable, plural sorras)

1. (Scotland, Ireland, dialect) sorrow

Determiner

sorra

1. (Scotland, Ireland, dialect) nary (a); no; not one
   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

     'Sorra a friend I have - sorra a friend, Masther Richard; and I did not spake to the priest this year or more, and I darn't go near him,' said the poor Palmerstown lass that was once so merry.

   • 1879, Chambers's Journal, volume 56, number 2, page 589:

     Sorra a bite she ates but she drinks the mixture with it.

Anagrams

• Rasor, Sarro, roars

Albanian

Noun

sorra

1. inflection of sorrë:
   1. definite nominative singular
   2. indefinite nominative/accusative plural

Asturian

Verb

sorra

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of sorrir

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈsu.rə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central) [ˈso.rə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈso.ra]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin saburra (“sand, grit”). Compare Occitan saurra.

Noun

sorra f (plural sorres)

1. sand

   Synonym: arena

Derived terms

• ensorrar
• sorral
• sorramoll
• sorrar
• sorrejar
• sorrenc
• sorrera

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic سُرَّة (surra, “navel”).

Noun

sorra f (plural sorres)

1. (Balearic, Valencia) belly (of a tuna)

Etymology 3

Verb

sorra

1. inflection of sorrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “sorra”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “sorra”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “sorra” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “sorra”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Finnish

Verb

sorra

1. inflection of sortaa:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

Anagrams

• sora-r

Hungarian

Etymology

Lexicalization of sor +‎ -ra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃorːɒ]
• Hyphenation: sor‧ra

Noun

sorra

1. sublative singular of sor

Adverb

sorra

1. one after the other, one by one

   Synonyms: sorban, egymás után

Further reading

• sorra in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɔr.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɔrra

Etymology 1

From Arabic سُرَّة (surra, “navel”).

Noun

sorra f (plural sarar or soror)

1. umbilical hernia

Etymology 2

Root
s-r-r
8 terms

From Arabic صُرَّة (ṣurra).

Noun

sorra f (plural soror or sarar)

1. a bundle, package

Votic

The spelling of this entry has been normalized from soraa according to the principles established by Wiktionary's editor community as described at Wiktionary:Votic entry guidelines or recent spelling standards of the language.

Alternative forms

• sorria

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *corëda.

Pronunciation

• (Luutsa, Liivčülä) IPA^(key): /ˈsorɑː/, [ˈsorːɑ]
• (Jõgõperä) IPA^(key): /ˈsorɑː/, [ˈsorːɑ]
• (Central Votic) IPA^(key): /ˈsorɤɑ̯/, [ˈsorɤɑ̯] ~ [ˈsorˑɤɑ̯]
• (Eastern Votic) IPA^(key): /ˈsorɤɑ̯/, [ˈsorˑɤɑ̯]
• Rhymes: -orɑː
• Hyphenation: sor‧ra

Adjective

sorra

1. coarse, rough
2. coarse, uncouth, rough, rude

Inflection

Declension of sorra (type VI/valka, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	sorra	sorrad
genitive	sorra	sorrajõ
partitive	sorratõ	sorrait
illative	sorra, sorrasõ	sorraisõ
inessive	sorraz	sorraiz
elative	sorrass	sorraiss
allative	sorrallõ	sorraillõ
adessive	sorrall	sorraill
ablative	sorralt	sorrailt
translative	sorrassi	sorraissi
'Standardized' inflection based on the Vaipooli dialects; see WT:AVOT. For dialectal differences between case endings, see Appendix:Votic dialects. *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

References

• Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “sorõa”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language]‎^[1], 2nd edition, Tallinn