# porra
## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin porrum (“leek”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈpo.rə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈpo.ra]

### Noun

porra f (plural porres)
* club, baton
    Synonym: bastó
* (of a pool cue) butt
    Coordinate term: fletxa
* (colloquial) sweepstake

### Further reading

* “porra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
* “porra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “porra”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

## Hungarian
### Etymology

por +‎ -ra

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈporːɒ]
* Hyphenation: por‧ra

### Noun

porra
* sublative singular of por

## Latin
### Noun

porra
* nominative/accusative/vocative plural of porrum

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* p**** (censored)

### Etymology

From porro.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpo.ʁɐ/ [ˈpo.hɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpo.ʁɐ/ [ˈpo.hɐ]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈpo.ʁɐ/ [ˈpo.χɐ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈpo.ʁa/ [ˈpo.ha]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpo.ʁɐ/
* Rhymes: -oʁɐ
* Hyphenation: por‧ra
* Audio (Portugal, Oporto):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

porra f (plural porras)
* (archaic) club (heavy stick used as a weapon)
    Synonyms: moca, porrete
* (Brazil, vulgar) cum, spunk (UK), spooge (US), jizz, jizzum, jism
    Synonyms: (vulgar) esporra, esperma, sêmen
* (Brazil, vulgar, pornography) cumshot (Can we verify this sense?)
    Synonym: ejaculação
* (Portugal, vulgar, obsolete) dick, cock
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis
* (informal or vulgar) shit, fuck; (often worthless) stuff, thing
    Synonyms: caralho, droga, merda, porcaria
    Tire esta porra daqui! ― Get this shit out of here!
    Mas que porra é esta? Não foi isso que pedi.What the fuck is this? That's not what I ordered.
** 2018, “Brasil”, performed by Soulfly:Vamos detonar essa porra Vamos levantar poeiraLet's fuck this shit up Let's raise dust

#### Derived terms

* porreiro, porra louca

#### Related terms

* porrete

### Interjection

porra!
* (informal or vulgar, intensifier) fuck; crap (remark of anger and an unwelcome surprise)
    Synonyms: carago, caralho, droga, fónix, merda
    Porra! Para com isso, porra! ― Fuck! Quit it, goddamit!

### Usage notes

* The sense of the intensifier and the interjection is merely informal in Portugal, while being vulgar in Brazil.

## Romani
### Noun

porra
* nominative plural of porr

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin porrum (“leek”). Compare English porray (“a type of stew”), as well as English porridge.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpora/ [ˈpo.ra]
* Rhymes: -ora
* Syllabification: po‧rra

### Noun

porra f (plural porras)
* club, baton, truncheon, nightstick (a baton, or military staff of command, now especially the stick carried by a police officer)
    Synonyms: clava, cachiporra
* (Spain) thick type of churro
    Coordinate term: churro
* (colloquial) sweepstake (about an event, e.g. a football match)
* fan, crowd, supporters (especially political)
    Synonym: barra
* cheer, from a crowd of supporters

#### Derived terms

* a la porra
* aporrear
* cachiporra
* echar porras
* porrazo
* una porra

### Interjection

porra
* no way! hell no!
    Synonym: una porra

### Adjective

porra
* feminine singular of porro

### Further reading

* “porra”, 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