-ара

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian -ара / -ara.

• IPA^(key): [ˈara]
• Rhymes: -ara
• Hyphenation: -а‧ра

-ара (-ara) f

1. (productive, colloquial, Serbism) forms nouns for rooms, shops, or other places or sites

   Synonym: -арня (-arnja)

   ‎(obsolete) дещар (deščar, “lumberjack”) + ‎-ара (-ara) → ‎(obsolete) дещара (deščara, “lumberyard”)

   ‎древар (drevar, “lumberjack”) + ‎-ара (-ara) → ‎древара (drevara, “lumberyard”)

   ‎млєчар (mlječar, “milkman”) + ‎-ара (-ara) → ‎млєчара (mlječara, “dairy”)

   ‎сушиц (sušic, “to dry”) + ‎-ара (-ara) → ‎сушара (sušara, “drying room”)

   ‎цегляр (cehljar, “bricklayer”) + ‎-ара (-ara) → ‎цегляра (cehljara, “brickyard”)

• All nouns derived with this suffix have a more formal, more literary equivalent suffixed with -арня (-arnja), i.e. древарня (drevarnja), цеглярня (cehljarnja), млєчарня (mlječarnja), etc.

• Medʹeši, H.; Fejsa, M. (1997), “-ара”, in Ramač, Ju., editor, Сербско-руски словнїк [Serbian-Rusyn Dictionary] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 2 (О – Ш), Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy, page 863

-ара (Latin spelling -ara)

1. Suffix appended to words to create a feminine noun, usually denoting a performer, woman with big parts of body, shop or workshop.

• → Pannonian Rusyn: -ара (-ara)

• -ара́: IPA^(key): [ ɐˈra]
• -а́ра: IPA^(key): [ ˈarɐ]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *-ara.

-ара́ • (-ará) f inan

1. (unproductive) Appended to nouns to form feminine inanimate nouns

   ‎мошка (moška) + ‎-ара (-ara) → ‎мошкара́ (moškará, “midges”, collective)

   ‎маска (maska) + ‎-ара (-ara) → ‎машкара́ (maškará, “mask”, literally and figuratively)

From -яра (-jara), from -яр (-jar) + -а (-a).

-а́ра • (-ára) m anim or f anim by sense

1. alternative form of -я́ра (-jára) (after hushing consonants)

   ‎жук (žuk) + ‎-ара (-ara) → ‎жуча́ра (žučára, familiar, low colloquial)

• “ар”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horox – Slovozmina, Horokh – Inflection]‎^[1]