parra

parra (plural parras, diminutive parratjie)

1. (colloquial) alternative form of padda
2. (crude, slang) vagina; female genitalia

Borrowed from Portuguese parar (“to halt, to stop”).

parra (present parra, present participle parraende, past participle geparra)

1. (fishing) to stop a fishing boat and wait; to keep a boat in a certain position
2. (fishing, imperative) row slower

parra inan

1. nonstandard form of barre

Uncertain. Possibly from Gothic *𐍀𐌰𐍂𐍂𐌰 (*parra), *𐍀𐌰𐍂𐍂𐌰𐌽𐍃 (*parrans, “trellis; fencing”) or from a pre-Indo-European root of similar meaning.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpa.rə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpa.ra]

parra f (plural parres)

1. trellised vine
2. grapevine

   Synonym: vinya

• parral
• parrús
• parrella, barrella

• “parra”, 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

From Arabic بَرًّا (barran).

parra

1. outside

parra f

1. forest
2. outside

• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 154

Possibly from Gothic *𐍀𐌰𐍂𐍂𐌰 (*parra), *𐍀𐌰𐍂𐍂𐌰𐌽𐍃 (*parrans, “trellis; fencing”). Cf. Medieval Latin parricus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpara/ [ˈpa.rɐ]
• Rhymes: -ara

parra f (plural parras)

1. grapevine (the plant on which grapes grow)

   Synonym: vide

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “parra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From Proto-Italic *parezā, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *spḗr (“sparrow, bird”). Cognate with English sparrow.

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

parra f (genitive parrae); first declension

1. A bird of ill omen; perhaps the barn owl

First-declension noun.

• → Italian: parra

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

Possibly from Gothic *𐍀𐌰𐍂𐍂𐌰 (*parra), *𐍀𐌰𐍂𐍂𐌰𐌽𐍃 (*parrans, “trellis; fencing”). Cf. Medieval Latin parricus.

• Hyphenation: par‧ra

parra f (plural parras)

1. shoot or stem of a vine with leaves

   Synonym: pâmpano

2. excessive pride, bragging

   Synonym: bazófia

• parrudo

Possibly from Gothic *𐍀𐌰𐍂𐍂𐌰 (*parra), *𐍀𐌰𐍂𐍂𐌰𐌽𐍃 (*parrans, “trellis; fencing”). Cf. Medieval Latin parricus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpara/ [ˈpa.ra]
• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: pa‧rra

parra f (plural parras)

1. grapevine (the plant on which grapes grow)

   Synonym: vid

• “parra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024