Noun: garra
Gender: f
Hyphenation: ga‧rra
| Singular f | garra |
| Plural f | garras |
Sample Sentences
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Holonym: pata
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luchar con garra (fight passionately)
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jugar con garra (play with passion)
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Él le pone mucha garra al trabajo. (He puts a lot of effort into his work.)
Nouns inflected like garra
enlatadora,
gencianilla,
paletada,
interneurona,
palestra,
quinacridona,
uridina,
bacinilla,
sopaipilla,
histerectomía,
desaveniencia,
baicaleína,
mesanina,
delicatessen,
hipertrigliceridemia,
teleasistencia,
sequía,
serifa,
seroja,
sesera, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Possibly from garfa (“animal's claw”), from Andalusian Arabic جَارْفَا (gárfa, “handful”), from Arabic غُرْفَة (ḡurfa, “cup or dipper”), from غَرَفَ (ḡarafa, “to ladle”), with influence from garfio (“hook”).
2. Or, possibly from Vulgar Latin *garra, from Gaulish *garrā (“leg”) (compare Breton gar, Old Irish gairri (“calves”)), from Proto-Celtic *garros; see Cornish garr. Compare to English har / English harr. See: English Nouns '
har', English Nouns '
harr'.
Verbs referencing "garra"
Catalan Nouns
garra.
Translations