英和和英

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌɹə/

形容詞

burra (not comparable)

1. (India) Big or important, used as a respectful honorific.

   Synonym: bada

   • 1997, John H. Esterline; Mae H. Esterline, Innocents Abroad: How We Won the Cold War, page 27:

     The most burra of burra sahibs resided in spacious, columned villas within the exclusive enclave of Alipore.

   • 2017, Lila Lee, The Lotus Blossom:

     Later she served the curried meal on an English blue and white flow-blue platter. “Spicy like my Maharanee. A burra meal, fit for a prince of India!”

派生語

• burra-khana

Further reading

• “burra”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “burra”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Latin

語源

From burrus.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbur.ra/, [ˈbʊrːä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbur.ra/, [ˈburːä]

名詞

burra f (genitive burrae); first declension

1. A small cow with a red mouth or muzzle
2. A shaggy garment
   1. (Late Latin) (plural) trifles, nonsense

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生した語

形容詞

burra

1. inflection of burrus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

参照

• “burra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• burra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• burra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette