different between ocra vs orra

English

Noun

ocra (countable and uncountable, plural ocras)

1. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of okra.
   • 1679, Thomas Trapham, A Discourse of the State of Health in the Island of Jamaica..., pp. 59–60:

     ...as a food easy of digestion may well be admitted likewise the young Ocra an agreeable Food as well for the species as individual, dressed variously according to pleasure...

   • 1707, Hans Sloane, A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados..., Vol. I, p. 222:

     Ocra, this has a round green stem, which rises straight up to ten or twelve foot high.

References

• “okra, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2004

Anagrams

• AOCR, Arco, Caro, Cora, RAOC, Roca, acro, acro-, arco, orca

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: ocras, ocrât

Verb

ocra

1. third-person singular past historic of ocrer

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ?chra, from Ancient Greek ???? (?khra, “pale yellow”).

Adjective

ocra (invariable)

1. tawny

Noun

ocra f (plural ocre)

1. ochre

Anagrams

• acro
• arco
• caro
• orca
• roca

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• ocre
• oca (dated, colloquial)

Noun

ocra f (plural ocras)

1. ochre (earth pigment containing silica, aluminium and ferric oxide)

Spanish

Etymology

From a West African language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ok?a/, [?o.k?a]

Noun

ocra m (plural ocras)

1. (El Salvador) okra, Abelmoschus esculentus

   Synonym: quingombó

Further reading

• “ocra” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

Probably originally a reduced form of over + all.

Adjective

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, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 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 […]

Anagrams

• Raro, roar

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?or??], [?o?r?]
• Hyphenation: or?ra

Etymology 1

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

Noun

orra

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

Declension

Derived terms

• borsot tör az orra alá

Etymology 2

orr (“nose”) +? -ra (case suffix)

Noun

orra

1. sublative singular of orr

Derived terms

• orra bukik

Irish

Pronoun

orra (emphatic orrasan)

1. Alternative form of orthu

Italian

Verb

orra

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

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????/

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

orra f (plural orrachan)

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

Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Pronoun

orra

1. third-person plural of air: on them

Inflection

Mutation

Further reading

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