Barra
noun
an island in NW Scotland, in the Outer Hebrides: fishing, crofting, tourism. Pop: 1078 (2001)
Barra
1 British
/ ˈbærə /
noun
barra
2
British
/ ˈbærə /
noun
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On a call with investors, CEO Mary Barra noted that GM’s defense division recently notched several big contracts.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
BBC NI weather presenter Barra Best says it allows forecasters to "compare one season with another and look back through decades of weather records".
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
The research was led by first authors Nazli Robin and Nicole Barra of the Schertzer Lab at McMaster.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
On the earnings call, GM Chief Executive Mary Barra said these are opportunities to improve margins and become less cyclical.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
"I named her Barra," she said as the child nursed.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
Altering words and adding the odd slang term, a typical example was: "Zarra marra onna barra, Clara?"
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
The Queretaro team’s fan club, or "barra," will be banned from attending even local games for three years.
From Fox News ● Mar. 8, 2022
“When you say barra — ‘abroad’ in Egyptian Arabic — the implication is automatically of somewhere better,” Youssef Rakha, an Egyptian novelist, wrote in a 2020 essay, “Barra and Zaman.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2021
Diaz is proud of how efficiently his barra is running the business of football.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2011
Why is the Arabic word for the sea Irish, for what is the difference between bahar, the Arabic word for sea, and beathra, an old Irish word for water, pronounced barra, whence the river Barrow?
From Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by George Henry Borrow
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