# برا
## Arabic
### Etymology

Adverbial accusative of بَرّ (barr, “land”).

### Adverb

بَرًّا • (barran)
* not in a seacraft or aircraft; by land, on land, overland
    Coordinate terms: بَحْرًا (baḥran, “navally; overseas”), جَوًّا (jawwan, “aerially”)
* outside, without

#### Descendants

* Egyptian Arabic: برا (barra)
* Maltese: barra
* Moroccan Arabic: برا (barra)
* South Levantine Arabic: برا (barra)
* → Azerbaijani: bərrən
* → Ottoman Turkish: براً (berren)

#### References

* Haywood, J.A., Nahmad, H.M. (1965) “برا”, in A new Arabic grammar, 2nd edition, London: Lund Humphries, →ISBN

## Central Kurdish
### Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *bráHtā, Proto-Indo-Iranian *bʰráHtā, From Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bəɾaː/

### Noun

| Northern Kurdish | bira |
برا (bira)
* brother

#### Derived terms

* برازا (biraza)
* برازاوا (birazawa)
* برالە (birale)
* براماک (biramak)
* براژن (birajin)
* برایانە (birayane)
* برایی (birayî)
* برایەتی (birayetî)
* زڕبرا (zirrbira)

### References

* Qazzaz, Shafiq (2000) “برا”, in The Sharezoor Kurdish–English dictionary, Erbil: Aras Press and Publishers, page 59
* Hejar (1990) “برا”, in Henbane borîne‎, Tehran: Soroush, page 50
* Wahby, T., Edmonds, C. J. (1966) “bira”, in A Kurdish-English Dictionary, page 17

## Gulf Arabic
### Alternative forms

* برة (barra)

### Etymology

From Arabic بَرًّا (barran).

### Pronunciation

* (Kuwait) IPA: /ˈbərːə/

### Adverb

بَرّا • (barra)
* outside, outdoors
    Antonym: داخل (dāḵil)
    خنتغدى برا. ― ḵan-nitġadda barra. ― Let's have lunch outdoors.

### Preposition

بَرّا • (barra)
* outside of, out of
    Antonym: داخل (dāḵil)
    لحد يطلع برا البيت وكت الغبارlaḥḥad yiṭlaʕ barra l-bēt wakt il-ġbārNobody goes outside the house at the time of sandstorms (or at the time of the sandstorm)

## Khalaj
### Postposition

بَرا (bara)
* Arabic spelling of bara (“because of, in respect of”)

## Laki
### Noun

بِرا (bira)
* brother

## Malay
### Proper noun

برا
* Jawi spelling of Bera‎

## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic بَرًّا (barran).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bar.ra/

### Adverb

برا • (barra)
* outside, outdoors
    Antonym: الداخل (el-dāḵil)
    جبرته برا. ― jbartu barra. ― I found him outside.

### Preposition

برا • (barra)
* outside
    Antonym: داخل (dāḵil)
    إدا سافرت برا البلاد غتتعرف بشلة تقافات وناس مختلفين عليك وتقدر تتعلم منهم كدا حاجة.ʔida sāfarti barra le-blād ḡatitʕarraf b-šalla taqāfāt w-nās miḵtalfīn ʕlīk w-taqdar titʕallam minnhum kada ḥāja.If you travel outside the country, you'll encounter many cultures and different people from you and you could learn many things from them.

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بَرًّا (barran), adverbial accusative of بَرّ (barr).

### Adverb

براً • (berren)
* by land

#### Further reading

* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “برا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 258

## Persian
### Preposition

برا • (barâ)
* (informal) Colloquial form of برای (barâye).

#### Descendants

* → Khalaj: bara

## South Levantine Arabic
### Alternative forms

* برة

### Etymology

From Arabic بَرًّا (barran).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bar.ra/, [ˈbɑrˤ.rˤɑ]
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### Adverb

برّا • (barra)
* outside, outdoors
    Antonym: جوا (juwwa)

#### Derived terms

* بريت (barrīt, “outside”, preposition)

## Southern Kurdish
### Noun

برا (bra)
* brother

## Urdu
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /bʊ.ɾɑː/
* Rhymes: -ɑː
* Hyphenation: بُ‧را

### Adjective

بُرا • (burā) (comparative بدتر, superlative بدترین, Hindi spelling बुरा)
* bad (including all the broader meanings associated, i.e. sinner, oppressor, dirty, disgraced etc.)
    Antonym: اَچّھا (acchā)
* disliked, ugly
* dirty
* oppressor
* wicked, evil
* injurious

#### Synonyms

* بَد (bad)
* خراب

### Further reading

* “برا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “برا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “برا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
* Platts, John T. (1884) “برا”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
* S. W. Fallon (1879) “برا”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
* John Shakespear (1834) “برا”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC