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[Oracle]

Some snapshots of Barra ...

http://www.isleofbarra.com/

[RichardB]

Is the term "barra"(begone) a coomonly used word of TCs and GCs? Where comes the origin of this word?

Arabic

Credible source please

[insan]

Is the term "barra"(begone) a coomonly used word of TCs and GCs? Where comes the origin of this word?

Arabic

Credible source please

Hadde barra yatağa be sör, RichardB! (Go out to ur bed reh sir, RichardB)

[insan]

barra: 1. wooden post. 2. a remark to repel, to drive away
somebody. 1. tahta direk. 2. birini defetmek iCin kullanIlan
sOz. (..?)


http://www.kypros.org/Cyprus/words.txt (A GC website, dunno if it is a creddible source)

It is a common term found in TC dialect, Arabic and Sumerian. This term is widely used by TCs.

[zan]

barra: 1. wooden post. 2. a remark to repel, to drive away
somebody. 1. tahta direk. 2. birini defetmek iCin kullanIlan
sOz. (..?)


http://www.kypros.org/Cyprus/words.txt (A GC website, dunno if it is a creddible source)

It is a common term found in TC dialect, Arabic and Sumerian. This term is widely used by TCs.

The descriptions sound more like it could even come from the word barricade...

[Oracle]

Thanks Insan ... but we are all familiar with the propensity of Turks to steal culture, words, songs, costumes, dances, food etc from all the native peoples which they have conquered, enslaved and ruled.

Tell us something new!

The new world order is to remove the suffocating effect of such rulers as your people .....

[zan]

Thanks Insan ... but we are all familiar with the propensity of Turks to steal culture, words, songs, costumes, dances, food etc from all the native peoples which they have conquered, enslaved and ruled.

Tell us something new!

The new world order is to remove the suffocating effect of such rulers as your people .....

Can anyone hear a band playing

[Oracle]

Thanks Insan ... but we are all familiar with the propensity of Turks to steal culture, words, songs, costumes, dances, food etc from all the native peoples which they have conquered, enslaved and ruled.

Tell us something new!

The new world order is to remove the suffocating effect of such rulers as your people .....

Can anyone hear a band playing

A Pipe band?

[denizaksulu]

Thanks Insan ... but we are all familiar with the propensity of Turks to steal culture, words, songs, costumes, dances, food etc from all the native peoples which they have conquered, enslaved and ruled.

Tell us something new!

The new world order is to remove the suffocating effect of such rulers as your people .....

'Poushto-pezevengis' / 'Ah Siktir olan' (pardon my French) arent exactly Greek are they my dearest?

[Oracle]

Thanks Insan ... but we are all familiar with the propensity of Turks to steal culture, words, songs, costumes, dances, food etc from all the native peoples which they have conquered, enslaved and ruled.

Tell us something new!

The new world order is to remove the suffocating effect of such rulers as your people .....

'Poushto-pezevengis' / 'Ah Siktir olan' (pardon my French) arent exactly Greek are they my dearest?

Indeed, they are (proudly) yours and I do not recall us wishing them as ours. Much like the Ottomans, they forced themselves upon us ...

A friend of mine, recently learning Russian, informs me that the derivation of all the Russian swear words is (also) Turkish. Perhaps Lana can confirm this Touretian habit of the Turkish language ....