fra
/fɹɑː/
fra noun: a title of a friar or monk: brother. Also the archaic form of fro.
Noun (1)
fra
- A title of a friar or monk: brother.
- You have at Naples your Fra Bernardino; / And I at Fondi have my Fra Bastiano, / The famous artist, who has come from Rome / To paint my portrait.a. 1883 (date written; first published 1883 January), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Prologue at Ischia”, in Michael Angelo: A Dramatic Poem, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and...
- The writer has spoken to his two companions, Fathers Eliseus and Elias, desiring them to go, if only to gather intelligence about those parts; but both are of one mind that the basis of operations, as laid down by Fra Simon, is not substantiated […]1908, Thomas Hughes, History of the Society of Jesus in North America
Noun (2) capitalized: Fra
Fra (plural Fras)
- a title for a Roman Catholic monk or friar; equivalent to Brother
Proper noun capitalized: Fra
Fra
- Short form of Francis.
Noun (3) capitalized: FRA
FRA (plural FRAs)
- Initialism of forward-rate agreement.
Also used as
fra is also the archaic form of fro.
fra meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
fra in Hindi
- एफ. आर. ए
fra in Tamil
- ஃப்ரா
fra in Marathi
- एफ. आर. ए
fra in Urdu
- ایف آر اے
More languagesFewer languages
- fra in Malayalam
- എഫ്. ആർ. എ
- fra in Punjabi
- ਐੱਫ. ਆਰ. ਏ
- fra in Gujarati
- એફ. આર. એ
- fra in Odia
- ଫ୍ରା
Forms of fra
| plural | Fras |
|---|---|
| plural | FRAs |
Origin of fra
PIE word *bʰréh₂tēr From Italian frate. See friar.
Shortened form of Italian frate (“monk”).
Words that rhyme with fra
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- Moskva
- Nansha
- rah
- shikar
- ah
- aha
- alhamdulillah
- Amapá
- Benoit
- Bogotá
- fa
- galah
- goombah
- huzzah
- inshallah
- Jah
- la
- lah-di-dah
- ma
- moire
- mudra
- ménage à trois
- na
- omertà
- ooh la la
- pa
- schwa
- shah
- Shangri-La
- sis boom bah
- ta
- wah
- Xisha
- 'za
- allah
- ar
- arthra
- Aymara
- baa
- bah
- Bogota
- boyar
- bra
- cha
- cha cha cha
- chamar
- che sara sara
- chicken paw
Questions about fra
- What does fra mean?
- Fra means a title of a friar or monk: brother.
- What is fra in Hindi?
- Fra in Hindi is एफ. आर. ए. See Fra meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is fra?
- Fra can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce fra?
- Fra is pronounced /fɹɑː/.
- What is the plural of fra?
- The plural of fra is Fras.
Words near fra in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fra (page history and authors); Fra (page history and authors); FRA (page history and authors); fra (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fra (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fra (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fra (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fra (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fra (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fra (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fra (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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