برا

Adverbial accusative of بَرّ (barr, “land”).

بَرًّا • (barran)

1. not in a seacraft or aircraft; by land, on land, overland

   Coordinate terms: بَحْرًا (baḥran, “navally; overseas”), جَوًّا (jawwan, “aerially”)

2. outside, without

• Egyptian Arabic: برا (barra)
• Maltese: barra
• Moroccan Arabic: برا (barra)
• South Levantine Arabic: برا (barra)
• → Azerbaijani: bərrən
• → Ottoman Turkish: براً (berren)

• Haywood, J.A., Nahmad, H.M. (1965) “برا”, in A new Arabic grammar, 2^nd edition, London: Lund Humphries, →ISBN

From Proto-Iranian *bráHtā, Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰráHtā, From Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

• IPA^(key): /bəɾaː/

برا (bira)

1. brother

• Qazzaz, Shafiq (2000) “برا”, in The Sharezoor Kurdish–English dictionary, Erbil: Aras Press and Publishers, page 59
• Hejar (1990) “برا”, in Henbane borîne‎^[1], Tehran: Soroush, page 50
• Wahby, T., Edmonds, C. J. (1966) “bira”, in A Kurdish-English Dictionary, page 17

• برة (barra)

From Arabic بَرًّا (barran).

• (Kuwait) IPA^(key): /ˈbərːə/

بَرّا • (barra)

1. outside, outdoors

   Antonym: داخل (dāḵil)

   خنتغدى برا. ― ḵan-nitġadda barra. ― Let's have lunch outdoors.

بَرّا • (barra)

1. outside of, out of

   Antonym: داخل (dāḵil)

   لحد يطلع برا البيت وكت الغبار

   laḥḥad yiṭlaʕ barra l-bēt wakt il-ġbār

   Nobody goes outside the house at the time of sandstorms (or at the time of the sandstorm)

بَرا (bara)

1. Arabic spelling of bara (“because of, in respect of”)

بِرا (bira)

1. brother

برا

1. Jawi spelling of Bera.‎‎

From Arabic بَرًّا (barran).

• IPA^(key): /bar.ra/

برا • (barra)

1. outside, outdoors

   Antonym: الداخل (el-dāḵil)

   جبرته برا. ― jbartu barra. ― I found him outside.

برا • (barra)

1. outside

   Antonym: داخل (dāḵil)

   إدا سافرت برا البلاد غتتعرف بشلة تقافات وناس مختلفين عليك وتقدر تتعلم منهم كدا حاجة.

   ʔida sāfarti barra le-blād ḡatitʕarraf b-šalla taqāfāt w-nās miḵtalfīn ʕlīk w-taqdar titʕallam minnhum kada ḥāja.

   If you travel outside the country, you'll encounter many cultures and different people from you and you could learn many things from them.

Borrowed from Arabic بَرًّا (barran), adverbial accusative of بَرّ (barr).

براً • (berren)

1. by land

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “برا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 258

برا • (barâ)

1. (informal) Colloquial form of برای (barâye).

• → Khalaj: bara

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /bʊ.ɾäː/
• Rhymes: -äː

بُرا • (burā) (comparative بَدْتَر, superlative بَدْتَرِین, Gurmukhi spelling ਬੁਰਾ)

1. bad (including all the broader meanings associated, i.e. sinner, oppressor, dirty, disgraced etc.)

   Synonym: بَھیڑا (bhaeṛā)

   Antonym: اَچّھا (acchā)

2. disliked
3. dirty

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “بُرا”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• “ਬੁਰਾ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025

• برة

From Arabic بَرًّا (barran).

• IPA^(key): /bar.ra/, [ˈbɑrˤ.rˤɑ]

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برّا • (barra)

1. outside, outdoors

   Antonym: جوا (juwwa)

• بريت (barrīt, “outside”, preposition)

برا (bra)

1. brother

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bʊ.ɾɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: بُ‧را

بُرا • (burā) (comparative بدتر, superlative بدترین, Hindi spelling बुरा)

1. bad (including all the broader meanings associated, i.e. sinner, oppressor, dirty, disgraced etc.)

   Antonym: اَچّھا (acchā)

2. disliked, ugly
3. dirty
4. oppressor
5. wicked, evil
6. injurious

• بَد (bad)
• خراب

• “برا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “برا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “برا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “برا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “برا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “برا”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC