orra

Probably originally a reduced form of over + all.

orra (comparative more orra, superlative most orra)

1. (now Scotland) Superfluous; odd, unmatched, left over.
2. (now Scotland) Of people: idle, unemployed, disreputable. [from 16th c.]
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 16:

     But the bothy billies, the ploughmen and the orra men of the Mains, they'd never care for gentry except to mock at them […]

• Raro, roar

• IPA^(key): [ˈorːɒ], [ˈoːrɒ]
• Hyphenation: or‧ra

orr (“nose”) +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

orra

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of orr

• borsot tör az orra alá

orr (“nose”) +‎ -ra (case suffix)

orra

1. sublative singular of orr

   orra bukik ― s/he tumbles, s/he falls to the ground (literally, “s/he falls onto the nose”)

• orra bukik

orra (emphatic orrasan)

1. Alternative form of orthu

orra

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

• raro

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɔrˠə/

orra f (plural orrachan)

1. amulet, enchantment
2. a charm to effect something wonderful

From Old Irish forru. Cognates include Irish orthu and Manx orroo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔrˠə/
• (Barra) IPA^(key): /ˈɔrˠɔ/
• (Skye) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɾhə/ (as if spelled ortha)

orra

1. third-person plural of air: on them

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “orra”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC