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 (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 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

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

Irish

Pronoun

orra (emphatic orrasan)

1. Alternative form of orthu

Italian

Verb

orra

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

Anagrams

• raro

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔrˠə/

Noun

orra f (plural orrachan)

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

Derived 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

From Old Irish forru. Cognates include Irish orthu and Manx orroo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔrˠə/
• (Barra) IPA^(key): [ˈɔrˠʌ]
• (Skye) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɾhə/ (as if spelled ortha)

Pronoun

orra

1. third-person plural of air: on them

Inflection

Personal inflection of air
Number	Person	Simple	Emphatic
Singular	1st	orm	ormsa
	2nd	ort	ortsa
	3rd m	air	airsan
	3rd f	oirre	oirrese
Plural	1st	oirnn	oirnne
	2nd	oirbh	oirbhse
	3rd	orra	orrasan

Mutation

Mutation of orra

Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
orra	n-orra	h-orra	t-orra

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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