porra

Inherited from Latin porrum (“leek”).

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

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porra f (plural porres)

1. club, baton

   Synonym: bastó

2. (of a pool cue) butt

   Coordinate term: fletxa

3. (colloquial) sweepstake

• “porra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “porra”, 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
• “porra”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

por +‎ -ra

• IPA^(key): [ˈporːɒ]
• Hyphenation: por‧ra

porra

1. sublative singular of por

porra

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of porrum

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From porro.

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• Rhymes: -oʁɐ
• Hyphenation: por‧ra

porra f (plural porras)

1. (archaic) club (heavy stick used as a weapon)

   Synonyms: moca, porrete

2. (Brazil, vulgar) cum, spunk (UK), spooge (US), jizz, jizzum, jism

   Synonyms: (vulgar) esporra, esperma, sêmen

3. (Brazil, vulgar, pornography) cumshot (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

   Synonym: ejaculação

4. (Portugal, vulgar, obsolete) dick, cock

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis

5. (informal or vulgar) shit, fuck; (often worthless) stuff, thing

   Synonyms: caralho, droga, merda, porcaria

   Tire esta porra daqui! ― Get this shit out of here!

   Mas que porra é esta? Não foi isso que pedi.

   What the fuck is this? That's not what I ordered.

   • 2018, “Brasil”, performed by Soulfly:

     Vamos detonar essa porra
     Vamos levantar poeira

     Let's fuck this shit up
     Let's raise dust

• porreiro, porra louca

• porrete

porra!

1. (informal or vulgar, intensifier) fuck; crap (remark of anger and an unwelcome surprise)

   Synonyms: carago, caralho, droga, fónix, merda

   Porra! Para com isso, porra! ― Fuck! Quit it, goddamit!

• The sense of the intensifier and the interjection is merely informal in Portugal, while being vulgar in Brazil.

porra

1. nominative plural of porr

From Latin porrum (“leek”). Compare English porray (“a type of stew”), as well as English porridge.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpora/ [ˈpo.ra]

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• Rhymes: -ora
• Syllabification: po‧rra

porra f (plural porras)

1. club, baton, truncheon, nightstick (a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer)

   Synonyms: clava, cachiporra

2. (Spain) thick type of churro

   Coordinate term: churro

3. (colloquial) sweepstake (about an event, e.g. a football match)
4. fan, crowd, supporters (especially political)

   Synonym: barra

5. cheer, from a crowd of supporters

porra

1. no way! hell no!

   Synonym: una porra

porra

1. feminine singular of porro

• “porra”, 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