sorra
English
Noun
sorra (countable and uncountable, plural sorras)
Determiner
sorra
- (Scotland, Ireland, dialect) nary (a); no; not one
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
- 'Sorra a friend I have - sorra a friend, Masther Richard; and I did not spake to the priest this year or more, and I darn't go near him,' said the poor Palmerstown lass that was once so merry.
- 1879, Chambers's Journal, volume 56, number 2, page 589:
- Sorra a bite she ates but she drinks the mixture with it.
Anagrams
Albanian
Noun
sorra
- inflection of sorrë:
- definite nominative singular
- indefinite nominative/accusative plural
Asturian
Verb
sorra
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive of sorrir
Catalan
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Latin saburra (“sand, grit”). Compare Occitan saurra.
Noun
sorra f (plural sorres)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Arabic سُرَّة (surra, “navel”).
Noun
sorra f (plural sorres)
Etymology 3
Verb
sorra
- inflection of sorrar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “sorra”, 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
- “sorra”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
- “sorra” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “sorra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Finnish
Verb
sorra
- inflection of sortaa:
- present active indicative connegative
- second-person singular present imperative
- second-person singular present active imperative connegative
Anagrams
Hungarian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈʃorːɒ]
- Hyphenation: sor‧ra
Noun
sorra
Adverb
sorra
Further reading
- sorra in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
Maltese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɔr.ra/
- Rhymes: -ɔrra
Etymology 1
From Arabic سُرَّة (surra, “navel”).
Noun
sorra f (plural sarar or soror)
Etymology 2
Root |
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s-r-r |
8 terms |
Noun
sorra f (plural soror or sarar)
Votic
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *corëda.
Pronunciation
- (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈsorɑː/, [ˈsorːɑ]
- Rhymes: -orɑː
- Hyphenation: sor‧ra
Adjective
sorra
Inflection
Declension of sorra (type VI/valka, no gradation) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | sorra | sorrad |
genitive | sorra | sorrajõ, sorrai |
partitive | sorratõ | sorraitõ, sorrai |
illative | sorrasõ, sorra | sorraisõ |
inessive | sorraz | sorraiz |
elative | sorrassõ | sorraissõ |
allative | sorralõ | sorrailõ |
adessive | sorrallõ | sorraillõ |
ablative | sorraltõ | sorrailtõ |
translative | sorrassi | sorraissi |
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive. |
References
- Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “sorõa”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn