Barra
English
Etymology 1
From Scottish Gaelic Barraigh.
Pronunciation
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈbaɹə/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbæɹə/
- (General American, without the Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA(key): /ˈbæɹə/
- (General American, Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA(key): /ˈbɛɹə/
- Rhymes: -æɹə
Proper noun
Barra
- An island of Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
Translations
Island in Outer Hebrides, Scotland
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Etymology 2
From Portuguese Barra.
Proper noun
Barra
- A district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where most venues of the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics were situated.
Etymology 3
From the creolized trade language of the river Gambia.[1]
Proper noun
Barra
- A place in the Gambia.
- 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, pages 300–301:
- I got used to seeing Lamin’s disembodied head in a corner, smiling at me, streaming at us live from, I presumed, the only internet café in Barra.
Etymology 4
Proper noun
Barra
- A barangay of the city of Lucena, Quezon, Philippines.
See also
References
Nheengatu
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Portuguese Barra do Rio Negro, the former name of the city in the 19th century.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbara/, (Rio Negro) [ˈba.ɾɐ]
- Rhymes: -ara
Proper noun
Barra
- Manaus (a municipality, the state capital of Amazonas, Brazil)
- 1909, Frederico Benício de Sousa Costa, “Kiti”, in “Nheengatú rupi: vocabulario miri”, in Carta pastoral de D. Frederico Costa, Bispo do Amazonas a seus amados diocesanos, Fortaleza: Typ. Minerva, page 195:
- Xa-çú Barra kiti […]
- I go to Manaus.
References
- Avila, Marcel Twardowsky (2021), “Barra”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, , page 289
Portuguese
Proper noun
Barra f
- a municipality of Bahia, Brazil
- a municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil