turra

From Hindi/Urdu, from Persian طره (torre).

turra (plural turras)

1. (India) A feather-like ornament projecting from a tied turban.
   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 43:

     The most ornate and flashy piece of clothing was the turban. It was red in colour with a might turra of gold thread.

   • 1997, Bir Dodraj Mansingh, in Bikram Singh, Sidharth Mishr (Eds.), Where Gallantry is Tradition, p. 131:

     Having earlier met Malik Nur Khan, and his tall, wiry father with in his black sherwani and white turban with a turra enhancing his height, I was somewhat more reassured.

   • 2003, Tejwant Singh, The Bold Brave and Fearless, page 269:

     A headman of a village, called a Chaudhary or a Malik, would wear a Turra or a ridge on his turban.

• truar

Deverbal from turrar (“to wrestle; ram”)

• IPA^(key):

turra f (plural turras)

1. beating, bashing

   Synonyms: malleira, palleira

2. quarrel, fight

   Synonyms: liorta, pelexa

   • c. 1760, Martín Sarmiento, Onomástico etimológico de la lengua gallega:

     «De Nabucodonosore o vello non me lembro nin migalla; mais do seu fillo Nabuquiño me acordo muyto, muyto. ¡Nabuquiño! Era muy escacha pedras. Muytas veces o vim andar no seu cabalo branco por aqueles alqueidons, e outras vezes andar as turras»

     «Of Nebuchadnezzar the Elder, I don't remember the least thing; but of his son, little Nebuch', I remember much, much. Little Nebuch'! He was such a troublemaker. Many times I saw him riding his white horse about those hills, and other times looking for a fight»

3. headbutt

   Synonym: croque

• turrar
• andar ás turras

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “turra”, 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), “turra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “turra”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

turra

1. inflection of turrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Proto-Finnic *turta. Cognates include Finnish turta and Estonian turd.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈturːɑ/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈturːɑ/,
• Rhymes: -urː, -urːɑ
• Hyphenation: tur‧ra

turra (comparative turremp)

1. necrotic, numb
2. (of wood) rotten

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 610

• Hyphenation: tur‧ra

Deverbal from turrar.

turra f (plural turras)

1. (colloquial) headbutt

   Synonym: cabeçada

2. (figurative) argument

   Synonyms: birra, disputa

• andar às turras (“to quarrel, fight, duke it out”)

turra

1. inflection of turrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative