forro

Borrowed from French feurre, from Old French fuerre, from Frankish *fodar, from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą, from Proto-Indo-European *pātróm (“food”).

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forro m (plural forros)

1. lining

• forrar

Borrowed from Arabic حُرّ (ḥurr, “free”).

• IPA^(key):

forro (feminine forra, masculine plural forros, feminine plural forras)

1. (obsolete) free
2. (archaic) tax-free

• aforrar

forro

1. first-person singular present indicative of forrar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “forro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “forro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “forro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “forro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “forro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowed from Old French feurre, from Frankish *fodar, from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą, from Proto-Indo-European *pātróm (“food”).

• fôrro (pre-reform)

• Rhymes: -oʁu
• Hyphenation: for‧ro

forro m (plural forros)

2. lining
3. drop ceiling (secondary ceiling, hung below the structural ceiling)
4. an individual tile or plank of a drop ceiling

Borrowed from Arabic حُرّ (ḥurr, “free”). Cognate with Spanish horro and Swahili huru.

• fôrro (pre-reform)

• Rhymes: -oʁu
• Hyphenation: for‧ro

forro (feminine forra, masculine plural forros, feminine plural forras)

2. free; freed
3. enfranchised; emancipated

forro m (uncountable)

1. Forro; Sãotomense (a Portuguese-based creole spoken in São Tomé and Príncipe)

   Synonym: são-tomense

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Rhymes: -ɔʁu
• Hyphenation: for‧ro

forro

1. first-person singular present indicative of forrar

• “forro”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “forro”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “forro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “forro”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈforo/
• Rhymes: -oro
• Syllabification: fo‧rro

Deverbal from forrar.

forro m (plural forros)

1. lining
2. dust jacket

   Coordinate term: portada

3. (heraldry) fur
4. (Argentina) condom

   Synonym: preservativo

5. (Argentina) said to refer to people that are obnoxious, sometimes treacherous

   forro pinchado ― obnoxious person (literally, “perforated condom”)

forro

1. first-person singular present indicative of forrar

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