barr
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From French barrir (“to trumpet; to make the sound of an elephant”), from Old French barrire, from Late Latin barriō, from Latin barrus (“elephant”).
Verb edit
barr (third-person singular simple present barrs, present participle barring, simple past and past participle barred)
- (obsolete) To make the sound of an elephant.
- 1737, François Rabelais, translated by Thomas Urquhart, The Complete Works of Doctor François Rabelais:
- He gave us also the example of the Philosopher, who, when he thought most seriously to have withdrawn himself unto a solitary Privacy, far from the rufling Clutterments of the tumultuous and confused World, the better to improve his Theory, to contrive, comment, and ratiocinate, was, notwithstanding his uttermost Endeavours to free himself from all untowards Noises, surrounded and environ'd about so with the barking of Curs, howling of Wolves, neighing of Horses, bleating of Sheep, barring of Elephants, hissing of Serpents, braying of Asses, chirping of Grasshoppers, cooing of Turtles […]
Etymology 2 edit
See bar.
Noun edit
barr (countable and uncountable, plural barrs)
Verb edit
barr (third-person singular simple present barrs, present participle barring, simple past and past participle barred)
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse barr, from Proto-Germanic *baraz.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
barr n (genitive singular barrs, no plural)
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
- barrfinka (“siskin”)
- barrskógur
- barrspæta (“great spotted woodpecker”)
- barrtré (“conifer”)
- barrviður
Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Irish barr (“top”),[3] from Proto-Celtic *barros (compare Middle Welsh barr), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers-.
Noun edit
barr m (genitive singular bairr or barr, nominative plural barra)
Declension edit
- Alternative declension
Derived terms edit
- ar barr do ghoib (“on the tip of one’s tongue”)
- ar barr do theanga
- ar bharr (“on top of; completely”)
- bain barr de (“vie with”)
- barr ar (“in excess of”)
- barr bua (“supremacy, victory”)
- barr cátha (“oat-husk tea”)
- barr láin
- barr margaidh (“cash crop”)
- barr taoide (“high tide”)
- barr- (“topped”)
- barraicín- (“tiptoe”)
- beir barr (“surpass, overcome”)
- bun agus barr (“the whole essence”)
- bun barr (“completely”)
- cé dhá bharr (“why?”)
- dá bharr (“gained”)
- dá bharr sin (“consequently”)
- de bharr (“because of”)
- de bharr ar (“in addition to; in preference to”)
- de bharr go (“because”)
- dul i mbarr (“deprive”)
- i mbarr d'anama (“with all one’s strength”)
- i mbarr do chéille (“out of one’s senses”)
- ó bhun go barr (“completely, from top to bottom”)
- príomhbharr (“main crop”)
- tabhair ar barr (“bring up, mention”)
- tabhair barr (“surpass, excel”)
- thar barr (“excellent, exceedingly”)
- thar barr amach (“outright, completely”)
- uchtbharr (“parapet”)
Related terms edit
- cafarr (“helmet, headpiece; kerchief”)
Verb edit
barr (present analytic barrann, future analytic barrfaidh, verbal noun barradh, past participle barrtha)
Conjugation edit
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Etymology 2 edit
From Old French barre, barrer. Compare English bar.
Noun edit
barr m (genitive singular bairr)
Declension edit
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Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Verb edit
barr (present analytic barrann, future analytic barrfaidh, verbal noun barradh, past participle barrtha)
- (transitive) bar, hinder
Conjugation edit
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Mutation edit
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| barr | bharr | mbarr |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References edit
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 101, page 56
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 267, page 95
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 barr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “barr”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Entries containing “barr” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “barr” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Maltese edit
| Root |
|---|
| b-r-r |
| 3 terms |
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
barr m
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
barr (imperfect jborr)
- to coo (make a coo sound)
Conjugation edit
| Conjugation of barr | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
| perfect | m | barrejt | barrejt | barr | barrejna | barrejtu | barrew | |
| f | barret | |||||||
| imperfect | m | nborr | tborr | jborr | nborru | tborru | jborru | |
| f | tborr | |||||||
| imperative | borr | borru | ||||||
Middle Welsh edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *barros (compare Irish barr), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers-.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
barr m (plural barriau)
Descendants edit
- Welsh: bar
Mutation edit
| Middle Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Soft | Nasal | Aspirate |
| barr | uarr / varr | marr | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *baraz.
Noun edit
barr n
Derived terms edit
- barraxlaðr (“high-shouldered, with sharp, prominent shoulderbones”)
- barrviðr (“pine-forrest; the wood of the fir”)
Descendants edit
References edit
Romani edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Sanskrit *वर्त (varta, “round stone”).[1][2]
Noun edit
barr m (nominative plural barra)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*varta3”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 661
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “bař”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 22b
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o barr, -es- m. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 75ab
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
barr n
- needle; leaf of a coniferous tree
- (dated, slang, uncountable) hair
Declension edit
| Declension of barr | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | barr | barret | barr | barren |
| Genitive | barrs | barrets | barrs | barrens |
Related terms edit
See also edit
Noun edit
barr c
Declension edit
| Declension of barr | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | barr | barren | barrar | barrarna |
| Genitive | barrs | barrens | barrars | barrarnas |
Further reading edit
- barr in Svensk ordbok.