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נורא

no-RA

Phonetics · no-RA

Terrible; terribly/awfully (intensifier).

Register: casualPart of speech: adjective / adverbHebrew (עברית, Ivrit)Root י.ר.א ("fear")

"Terrible" — and the everyday intensifier "awfully": nora yafeh, awfully pretty.

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Reviewed 2026-07-30

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