Bar

See also: bar and Appendix:Variations of "bar"

English

Etymology 1

Proper noun

the Bar

1. (legal senses) Alternative spelling of bar.

Etymology 2

From Serbo-Croatian Bar

Proper noun

Bar

1. A coastal town, the capital of Bar Municipality, in southern Montenegro.
2. A municipality in southern Montenegro.

Translations

city

• Albanian: Tivar
• Italian: Antivari
• Ottoman Turkish: بار‎ (bar)

• Russian: Бар (Bar)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бар

  Roman: Bar (sh)

Etymology 3

Shortening.

Proper noun

Bar

1. Nickname from the female given name Barbara.

Anagrams

• ABR, ARB, Arb., RBA, Rab, abr., arb, bra

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [baːɐ]

• Audio (Berlin)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aːɐ̯

Etymology 1

Loaned in the 19th century from English bar, from Old French barre.

Noun

Bar f (genitive Bar, plural Bars)

1. bar (desk)
2. night club (pub)

Declension

Declension of Bar [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Bar	die	Bars
genitive	einer	der	Bar	der	Bars
dative	einer	der	Bar	den	Bars
accusative	eine	die	Bar	die	Bars

Related terms

• Bardame, Barhocker, Bartresen, Barkellner
• Eisbar, Getränkebar, Nachtbar, Tanzbar, Wasserpfeifenbar

Descendants

• → Hungarian: bár

Etymology 2

Scholarly creation from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).

Noun

Bar n (strong, genitive Bars, plural Bars)

1. bar (unit of pressure)

Declension

Declension of Bar [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Bar	die	Bars
genitive	eines	des	Bars	der	Bars
dative	einem	dem	Bar	den	Bars
accusative	ein	das	Bar	die	Bars

Further reading

• “Bar” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Bar” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Bar” in Duden online

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Antivari (“across from Bari”), itself from the Italian city Bari.

Proper noun

Bar m (Cyrillic spelling Бар)

1. Bar (a coastal town, the capital of Bar Municipality, in southern Montenegro)
2. Bar (a municipality in southern Montenegro)