برا

Arabic

Etymology

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

Adverb

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

Descendants

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

References

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

Central Kurdish

Noun

برا (bra)

1. brother

Related terms

• زڕبِرا (zirrbira)

Gulf Arabic

Alternative forms

• برة (barra)

Etymology

From Arabic بَرًّا (barran).

Pronunciation

• (Kuwait) IPA^(key): /ˈbərːə/

Adverb

بَرّا • (barra)

1. outside, outdoors

   Antonym: داخل (dāḵil)

   خنتغدى برا.

   ḵan-nitġadda barra.

   Let's have launch outdoors.

Preposition

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)

Khalaj

Postposition

بَرا (bara)

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

Laki

Noun

بِرا (bira)

1. brother

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic بَرًّا (barran).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bar.ra/

Adverb

برا • (barra)

1. outside, outdoors

   Antonym: الداخل (el-dāḵil)

   جبرته برا.

   jbartu barra.

   I found him outside.

Preposition

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.

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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

Adverb

براً • (berren)

1. by land

Further reading

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

Persian

Preposition

برا • (barâ)

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

Descendants

• → Khalaj: bara

South Levantine Arabic

Alternative forms

• برة

Etymology

From Arabic بَرًّا (barran).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bar.ra/,

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Adverb

برّا • (barra)

1. outside, outdoors

   Antonym: جوا (juwwa)

Derived terms

• بريت (barrīt, “outside”, preposition)

Urdu

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

بُرا • (burā) (Hindi spelling बुरा)

1. bad (inc. all the broader meanings associated, ie. sinner, oppressor, dirty, disgraced etc.)

   Antonym: اَچھا (achā)

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

Declension

Further reading

• “برا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “برا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• 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