arrha

From Latin arrha (“deposit, pledge”).

arrha (plural arrhae)

1. (law, historical) Money or some other valuable item given to evidence a contract; a pledge or earnest.

• arrah, Harar

• Homophones: arrhas, arrhât

arrha

1. third-person singular past historic of arrher

• arra

Shortened form of arrhabō, from Ancient Greek ἀρραβών (arrhabṓn), from Biblical Hebrew עירבון / עֵרָבוֹן (ʿērāḇōn, “guarantee, deposit”) (earlier *ʿirrabūn).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈar.rʰa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈar.ra]

arrha f (genitive arrhae); first declension

1. deposit, down payment
2. pledge

First-declension noun.

• “arrha”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• arrha in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.