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EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɑː/
- (General American) enPR: bär, IPA(key): /bɑɹ/, [bɑɹ], [bɑ˞]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /baː/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
- Homophones: baa, bah (in some pronunciations)
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin. Doublet of barre.
NounEdit
bar (countable and uncountable, plural bars)
- A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- The window was protected by steel bars.
- (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is 1⁄4 inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
- Ancient Sparta used iron bars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloy, to physically discourage the use of money.
- We are expecting a carload of bar tomorrow.
- A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- bar of chocolate
- bar of soap
- A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
- a bar of light
- a bar of colour
- A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
- (typography) Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
- Hyponyms: pipe, strikethrough, macron
- (mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
- (physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
- A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
- Synonyms: barroom, ginshop, (British) pub, public house, tavern; see also Thesaurus:pub
- The street was lined with all-night bars.
- The counter of such premises.
- Synonym: wet bar
- Step up to the bar and order a drink.
- A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
- (by extension, in combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar, etc.) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
- An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.
- An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
- a burger bar
- a local fish bar
- An establishment offering cosmetic services.
- a nail bar; a brow bar
- An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
- Synonyms: ban, prohibition
- The club has lifted its bar on women members.
- Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
- 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, Act V, page 83:
- Muſt I new bars to my own joy create?
- 2013, Terence Dillon, A Long Way Home (page 184)
- Mr Harding could look back on his initial judgement of Paul's talent with great satisfaction while Paul could reflect that to be Irish was not necessarily a bar to progress.
- (programming, whimsical, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
- (UK, Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
- (UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
- (US, Philippines, law, usually with the) The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
- He's studying hard to pass the Bar this time; he's failed it twice before.
- (law, metonymically, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
- He was called to the bar, he became a barrister.
- (telecommunications, electronics) One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
- I don't have any bars in the middle of this desert.
- (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- (music) One of those musical sections.
- Synonym: measure
- (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
- (figurative) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
- (soccer, most codes) The crossbar.
- 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC[1]:
- Composed play then saw Sam Ricketts nutmeg Ashley Cole before Taylor whipped a fine curling effort over Petr Cech's bar.
- (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
- An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
- A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
- (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
- 1868, “Route 20: London to Tiflis […] ”, in Handbook for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland, Second edition, London: John Murray, page 320:
- Travellers change at Batoum into a steamer which performs the service between that port and Poti, and which has a less draught of water to enable it to cross the bar of the river Rion.
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
- A city gate, in some British place names.
- Temple Bar, London
- (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
- (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
- (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
- (farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
- (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
- (slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
- 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, “The First Shag in Ages”, in Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 151:
- Tell Sick Boy tae gie us a bell if ye see um. The bastard owes us twenty fuckin bar.
Derived termsEdit
- address bar
- admitted to the bar
- aero bar
- American dun-bar
- angle bar
- anti-roll bar
- anti-sway bar
- at bar
- at the bar
- baby bar
- bar association
- bar billiards
- bar car
- bar chair
- bar chart
- bar code
- Bar Council
- bar crawl
- bar ditch
- bar exam
- bar examination
- bar fly
- bar graph
- Bar Hill
- bar hop
- bar iron
- bar line
- bar lunch
- bar magnet
- bar meal
- bar mitzvah
- bar of chocolate
- bar of soap
- bar off
- bar out
- bar pad
- bar parlour
- bar phone
- bar review
- bar room
- bar shoe
- bar shot
- bar sinister
- bar spin
- bar spoon
- bar star
- bar steward
- bar stock
- bar stool
- bar syrup
- bar table
- bar up
- bar wood
- bar-breasted honeyeater
- bar-crested antshrike
- bar-goer
- bar-headed goose
- bar-keeper
- bar-lamb
- bar-resto
- bar-shouldered dove
- bar-sinister
- bar-tailed godwit
- bar-tend
- bar-winged rail
- barfly
- barful
- barkeep
- barkeeper
- barline
- barmaid
- barman
- barperson
- barring
- barrister
- bartender
- bass bar
- bass-bar
- bastard bar
- beach bar
- bean-to-bar
- beer bar
- behind bars
- behind bars
- behind the bar
- belly up to the bar
- bikini bar
- Boston Bar
- breaker bar
- breakfast bar
- broken bar
- brown bar
- bull bar
- bumper bar
- burger bar
- burglar bar
- burning bar
- bus bar
- bush bar
- butter bar
- buttery bar
- call to the bar
- called to the bar
- called within the bar
- candy bar
- candy bar phone
- Carter Bar
- cash bar
- cereal bar
- Charlie bar
- chin-up bar
- chinning bar
- choco bar
- chocolate bar
- cocktail bar
- coffee bar
- color bar
- colour bar
- Congo bar
- credit bar
- crowbar
- crown bar
- crush bar
- curl bar
- dairy bar
- debar
- dessert bar
- detector bar
- disbar, disbarment
- dive bar
- dotted bar line
- double bar
- double bar line
- draft-bar
- dragbar
- draught-bar
- drawbar
- dun-bar
- eight-bar blues
- embar
- energy bar
- error bar
- fern bar
- finger bar
- fire bar
- five bar
- full bar
- gas bar
- gay bar
- glazing bar
- granola bar
- ground bar
- h bar
- h-bar
- Hague Bar
- Halligan bar
- handlebar
- health bar
- high bar
- hitching-bar
- horizontal bar
- hosted bar
- hostess bar
- hot bar
- I-bar
- ice cream bar
- inner bar
- J-bar
- jail bars
- Johnson bar
- joint bar
- judder bar
- juice bar
- kangaroo bar
- karaoke bar
- Katy bar the door
- kitty bar the door
- know from a bar of soap
- KTV bar
- Leeming Bar
- lesbian bar
- lift the bar
- link bar
- Logan bar
- lounge bar
- lower the bar
- luncheon bar
- lup sup bar
- menu bar
- milk bar
- milk-bar cowboy
- mill bar
- minibar
- monkey bars
- mosquito bar
- mouth bar
- N-bar
- nail bar
- Nanaimo bar
- navigation bar
- Nazi bar
- needle bar
- nerf bar
- no host bar
- nut bar
- nut-bar
- open bar
- outer bar
- oxygen bar
- oyster bar
- P-bar
- parallel bars
- pass the bar
- piano bar
- point bar
- Potters Bar
- power bar
- prisoners' bars
- progress bar
- prop up the bar
- pry bar
- public bar
- puddle bar
- push-up bar
- radius bar
- raise the bar
- randle-bar
- raw bar
- rebar
- roll bar
- rollbar
- roo bar
- Russian bar
- saddle bar
- salad bar
- saloon bar
- sand bar
- sandbar
- sandwich bar
- scale bar
- scrimping bar
- scroll bar
- set the bar
- sidebar
- singles bar
- sissy bar
- slant bar
- slice bar
- snack bar
- snack-bar
- space bar
- splinter bar
- split bar
- sports bar
- spreader bar
- starting bar
- status bar
- stir bar
- strip bar
- striptease bar
- summer bar
- sway bar
- T-bar
- tend bar
- tiki bar
- title bar
- titty bar
- toll bar
- toll-bar
- tommy bar
- tool bar
- tool-bar
- toolbar
- torsion bar
- tow bar
- towbar
- triple bar
- twelve bar blues
- twelve-bar blues
- type bar
- unbar
- V-bar
- vertical bar
- view bar
- wall bars
- water bar
- wet bar
- whammy bar
- window bar
- wine bar
- wing bar
- wire bar
- wrecking bar
- X-bar
- X-bar theory
DescendantsEdit
- → Arabic: بَار m (bār)
- → Armenian: բար (bar)
- → Bulgarian: бар (bar)
- → Burmese: ဘား (bha:)
- → Chichewa: bála
- → Chinese:
- Mandarin: 吧 (bā)
- → Czech: bar m
- → Danish: bar c
- → Dutch: bar m
- → Esperanto: baro
- → Estonian: baar
- → French: bar m
- → Romanian: bar
- → Galician: bar m
- → Georgian: ბარი (bari)
- → German: Bar f
- → Greek: μπαρ n (bar)
- → Gulf Arabic: بار (bār)
- → Hebrew: בָּר (bar), בָּאר (bár)
- → Hungarian: bár (also via German)
- → Icelandic: bar m
- → Irish: beár m
- → Italian: bar m
- → Japanese: バー (bā)
- → Khmer: បារ (baa)
- → Korean: 바 (ba)
- → Lithuanian: bãras m
- → Macedonian: бар m (bar)
- → Malagasy: ba
- → Norwegian:
- → Persian: بار (bâr)
- → Polish: bar m
- → Portuguese: bar m
- → Russian: бар m (bar)
- → Serbo-Croatian: ба̑р m, bȃr m
- → Slovene: bȃr m
- → Spanish: bar m
- → Swahili: baa
- → Swedish: bar c (see there for further descendants)
- → Thai: บาร์ (baa)
- → Turkish: bar
- → Xhosa: íbhári
- → Zulu: ibha
TranslationsEdit
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [2]
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English barren, from Old French barrer,[1] from Medieval Latin barrare (“to bar”), from the noun. Cognate to Occitan barrar, Spanish barrar, Portuguese barrar.
Preposition properly imperative of the verb. Compare barring.
VerbEdit
bar (third-person singular simple present bars, present participle barring, simple past and past participle barred)
- (transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
- Our way was barred by a huge rockfall.
- 1906 August, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 1, stanza V, page 47:
- 'One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, I'm after a prize to-night, / But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light; / Yet, if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day, / Then look for me by moonlight, / Watch for me by moonlight, / I'll come to thee by moonlight, though Hell should bar the way.'
- (transitive) To prohibit.
- I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred.
- (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
- bar the door
- To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 208, column 1:
- I lived in a hut in the yard. To be out of the chaos I would sometimes get into the accountant’s office. It was built of horizontal planks, and so badly put together that, as he bent over his high desk, he was barred from neck to heels with narrow strips of sunlight.
SynonymsEdit
- (obstruct): block, hinder, obstruct
- (prohibit): ban, interdict, prohibit
- (lock or bolt with a bar):
- See also Thesaurus:hinder
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Esperanto: bari
TranslationsEdit
PrepositionEdit
bar
- Except, other than, besides.
- Synonyms: apart from, barring, except for, excepting, excluding, other than, save; see also Thesaurus:except
- He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife.
- 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter I, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, page 5:
- "I might be a fool," the younger man admitted quietly, "even an idiot, but there's not a person living, bar you, who possess the courage to call me a weakling, Sir."
- 2019 October, Philip Sherratt, “Midland Main Line upgrade presses on”, in Modern Railways, page 62:
- These see the overhead wires installed on all bar the slow lines between Bedford and Wellingborough by next May, with the remaining section completed by August, when the full programme is due to be completed.
- (horse racing) Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
- Leg At Each Corner is at 3/1, Lost My Shirt 5/1, and it's 10/1 bar.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ “barren, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2018, retrieved 31 October 2019.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “bar”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume I (A–C), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 446.
Etymology 3Edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”), coined circa 1900.
NounEdit
bar (plural bars)
- A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
TranslationsEdit
Further readingEdit
- Bar (unit) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Bar in the 1920 edition of Encyclopedia Americana.
AnagramsEdit
AfarEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bár m (plural baritté f)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of bár | ||||||||||||||||||
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absolutive | bár | |||||||||||||||||
predicative | bára | |||||||||||||||||
subjective | barí | |||||||||||||||||
genitive | bartí | |||||||||||||||||
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Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “bar”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[3], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
AfrikaansEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
bar (attributive barre, comparative barder, superlative barste)
ReferencesEdit
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
AlbanianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Albanian *bara, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to cure (with spells or herbs)”), compare Ancient Greek φάρμακον (phármakon, “drug, medicine”), Lithuanian bùrti (“to conjure”), Latvian burt (“to conjure, practice magic”), Latvian burts (“letter, font”).[1]
Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *bʰars- (“spike, prickle”), *bʰers- (“top, tip, point”), compare Welsh bara (“bread”), Old Norse barr (“corn, grain, barley”), Latin far (“spelt”), Serbo-Croatian brȁšno.[2]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bar m (indefinite plural barëra, definite singular bari, definite plural barërat)
- grass
- (figurative) tasteless food
DeclensionEdit
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
bar m (indefinite plural barna, definite singular bari, definite plural barnat)
- medicine, medication, medicinal plant; mineral (see Lat. magnes in Frang Bardhi)
- (figurative, colloquial) cure, palliative, solution
- (figurative, colloquial) marijuana, likely a calque from English or French
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ D. Q. Adams, "Heal: *bher-", in Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture (London: Fitzroy-Dearborn, 1997), 262.
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (1998) Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 17
AzerbaijaniEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)
- fruit
- Synonym: meyvə
- crop, harvest, yield
- Synonym: məhsul
- (figurative) fruit (an end result, effect, or consequence)
- Synonym: bəhrə
- (archaic) burden
- Synonym: yük
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)
- bar (a business selling alcoholic drinks)
Etymology 3Edit
Internationalism; ultimately from French bar, from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros).
NounEdit
bar
- (meteorology) bar (unit of pressure)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of bar | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | bar |
barlar | ||||||
definite accusative | barı |
barları | ||||||
dative | bara |
barlara | ||||||
locative | barda |
barlarda | ||||||
ablative | bardan |
barlardan | ||||||
definite genitive | barın |
barların |
Further readingEdit
- “bar” in Obastan.com.
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
bar m (plural bars)
CimbrianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- biar (Luserna)
EtymologyEdit
From Middle High German wir, from Old High German wir, from Proto-West Germanic *wiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *wīz.
PronounEdit
bar
- (Sette Comuni) we
- Synonym: bandare
- Bar zeinan bèllase. ― We are Italians.
- Bar zeinda. ― We are here.
- Bar habanze galummet. ― We took them.
InflectionEdit
nominative | accusative | dative | ||
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1st person singular | ich | mich | miar | |
2nd person singular | familiar | du | dich | diar |
polite | iart | ach | òich | |
3rd person singular | m | èar, ar | in, en | iime |
f | zi, ze | iar | ||
n | es, is | es, 's | iime | |
1st person plural | bar, bandare |
zich | izàndarn | |
2nd person plural | iart, iartàndare, artàndare |
òich, ach | ogàndarn | |
3rd person plural | ze, zòi, zandare |
zich | innàndarn |
ReferencesEdit
- “bar” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
Crimean TatarEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Turkic *bār.
PredicativeEdit
bar
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
bar
- second-person singular imperative of barmaq (“to go, to arrive”)
CzechEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
bar m
- bar (a business selling beverages)
- bar (the counter of such a premises)
- bar (a cabinet used to store alcoholic drinks in a private house or a hotel room)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
- barový m
Related termsEdit
- barman m
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowing from modern European languages, originally coined based on Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).
NounEdit
bar m
- bar, a non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals
DeclensionEdit
Further readingEdit
DalmatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
VerbEdit
bar (second-person plural present baite)
- to drink
DanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Danish bar, Old West Norse berr (with ʀ-umlaut), from Proto-Germanic *bazaz.
AdjectiveEdit
bar (neuter bart, plural and definite singular attributive bare)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
bar c (singular definite baren, plural indefinite barer)
- bar (business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages, counter of such a premises)
InflectionEdit
Etymology 3Edit
From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).
NounEdit
bar c (singular definite baren, plural indefinite bar)
- bar (unit of pressure)
InflectionEdit
Etymology 4Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
VerbEdit
bar
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
bar m (plural bars, diminutive barretje n)
- A bar, counter, drink cabinet.
- A bar, pub serving alcohol.
Derived termsEdit
-types of establishment
DescendantsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Old French barhaine, probably of Germanic origin, possibly Frankish *baʀ (“bare; barren”).
AdjectiveEdit
bar (comparative barder, superlative barst)
- harsh, tough (used mainly with koude (“cold”), or omstandigheden (“conditions”))
- barren, inhospitable, bare
- crude, grim, unfriendly
InflectionEdit
Inflection of bar | ||||
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uninflected | bar | |||
inflected | barre | |||
comparative | barder | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | bar | barder | het barst het barste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | barre | bardere | barste |
n. sing. | bar | barder | barste | |
plural | barre | bardere | barste | |
definite | barre | bardere | barste | |
partitive | bars | barders | — |
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
AdverbEdit
bar
- extremely (only in a negative sense)
Etymology 4Edit
From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”), coined c. 1900.
NounEdit
bar
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Indonesian: bar
ReferencesEdit
- M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]
FaroeseEdit
VerbEdit
bar
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of bera (group v-54) | ||
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infinitive | bera | |
supine | borið | |
participle (a26)1 | berandi | borin |
present | past | |
first singular | beri | bar |
second singular | bert | bart |
third singular | ber | bar |
plural | bera | bóru |
imperative | ||
singular | ber! | |
plural | berið! | |
1Only the past participle being declined. |
Derived termsEdit
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From English bar. Doublet of barre.
NounEdit
bar m
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Romanian: bar
Etymology 2Edit
Of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *barsaz (“perch”).
NounEdit
bar m
- bass (fish)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “bar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
GalicianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
bar m (plural bares)
- bar, coffee shop, café, pub (an establishment where refreshments and alcohol drinks are served)
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from English bar and this from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).
NounEdit
bar m (plural bares)
- bar (unit of pressure)
GermanEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle High German and Old High German bar.
AdjectiveEdit
bar (not comparable)
DeclensionEdit
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | er ist bar | sie ist bar | es ist bar | sie sind bar | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | barer | bare | bares | bare |
genitive | baren | barer | baren | barer | |
dative | barem | barer | barem | baren | |
accusative | baren | bare | bares | bare | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der bare | die bare | das bare | die baren |
genitive | des baren | der baren | des baren | der baren | |
dative | dem baren | der baren | dem baren | den baren | |
accusative | den baren | die bare | das bare | die baren | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein barer | eine bare | ein bares | (keine) baren |
genitive | eines baren | einer baren | eines baren | (keiner) baren | |
dative | einem baren | einer baren | einem baren | (keinen) baren | |
accusative | einen baren | eine bare | ein bares | (keine) baren |
AdverbEdit
bar
PrepositionEdit
bar
- (+genitive) without
- Synonyms: ohne, sonder, außer, ausschließlich
Etymology 2Edit
DeterminerEdit
bar (invariable)
- Obsolete form of paar (“a few, couple”).
Further readingEdit
GothicEdit
RomanizationEdit
bar
- Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐍂
IcelandicEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from English bar (1), from Old French barre.
NounEdit
bar m (genitive singular bars, nominative plural barir)
- bar (establishment offering alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises)
- bar (counter at which such beverages are sold or offered)
- (by extension) a counter where a buffet or a specialized kind of food is offered
DeclensionEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from English bar (2), from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).
NounEdit
bar n (genitive singular bars, nominative plural bör)
- bar (unit of pressure)
DeclensionEdit
Etymology 3Edit
VerbEdit
bar
IndonesianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Dutch bar, from English bar, from Middle English barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin.
NounEdit
bar (first-person possessive barku, second-person possessive barmu, third-person possessive barnya)
Etymology 2Edit
From Dutch bar, from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”), coined c. 1900.
NounEdit
bar (first-person possessive barku, second-person possessive barmu, third-person possessive barnya)
- (physics) bar: a non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
Further readingEdit
- “bar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
- “bar” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
IrishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English bar, from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).
NounEdit
bar m (genitive singular bair, nominative plural bair)
- bar (unit of pressure)
DeclensionEdit
MutationEdit
Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
bar | bhar | mbar |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further readingEdit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “bar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Entries containing “bar” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from English bar.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bar m
- bar (place serving drinks)
- C'è un bar qui vicino? ― Is there a bar nearby?
- café
- bar (unit of pressure)
Derived termsEdit
LatvianEdit
VerbEdit
bar
- 2nd person singular present indicative form of bārt
- 3rd person singular present indicative form of bārt
- 3rd person plural present indicative form of bārt
- 2nd person singular imperative form of bārt
- (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of bārt
- (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of bārt
MarshalleseEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
bar
AdverbEdit
bar
DeterminerEdit
bar
NounEdit
bar
ReferencesEdit
Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
bar
- (Northern) Alternative form of bor
Northern KurdishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bar m
- burden (a heavy load)
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse berr and Old Danish bar.
AdjectiveEdit
bar (neuter singular bart, definite singular and plural bare, comparative barere, indefinite superlative barest, definite superlative bareste)
- bare, naked
- 2014, "Ikke provosèr ham", by Inger Torill Jørgensen, eBokNorden AS →ISBN [4]
- Han kom tettere inn til henne, la armen rundt ryggen hennes og bøyet hodet sitt ned mot hennes bare skulder, kysset den.
- He came closer to her, put his arm around her back and bowed his head down to her bare shoulder, and kissed it.
- 2014, "Ikke provosèr ham", by Inger Torill Jørgensen, eBokNorden AS →ISBN [4]
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
- berr (Nynorsk)
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
bar m (definite singular baren, indefinite plural barer, definite plural barene)
Related termsEdit
- bartender (sense 1)
Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
bar n (definite singular baret, uncountable)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 4Edit
From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).
NounEdit
bar m (definite singular baren, indefinite plural bar, definite plural barene)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 5Edit
VerbEdit
bar
ReferencesEdit
Norwegian NynorskEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
VerbEdit
bar
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
bar m (definite singular baren, indefinite plural barar, definite plural barane)
Related termsEdit
- bartender (sense 1)
Etymology 3Edit
From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”), coined circa 1900.
NounEdit
bar m (definite singular baren, indefinite plural barar, definite plural barane)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Etymology 4Edit
NounEdit
bar n (definite singular baret, uncountable)
- the needles of the conifers, twigs and branches of conifers
- 1860, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, "Vaaren":
- Derfor eg fann millom Bjørkar og Bar i Vaaren ei Gaata […]
- Therefore I found, between the birches and conifers, in spring a riddle […]
- Derfor eg fann millom Bjørkar og Bar i Vaaren ei Gaata […]
- 1860, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, "Vaaren":
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 5Edit
AdjectiveEdit
bar (neuter bart, definite singular and plural bare, comparative barare, indefinite superlative barast, definite superlative baraste)
ReferencesEdit
- “bar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-West Germanic *bair.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bār m
DeclensionEdit
SynonymsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Middle English: bor (see there for further descendants)
Old High GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
bar
DescendantsEdit
Old IrishEdit
PronunciationEdit
DeterminerEdit
bar
- Alternative form of for (“your pl”)
Old NorseEdit
VerbEdit
bar
Old SaxonEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz.
AdjectiveEdit
bār
DeclensionEdit
Strong declension | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
gender | masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
case | singular | plural | singular | plural | singular | plural |
nominative | bār | bāre, bāra | bār | bāra | bār | bār, bāra |
accusative | bāran, bāren | bāra, bāre | bāra | bāra | bār | bār, bāra |
genitive | bāres, bāras | bāraro, bāroro, bārero | bārara, bāraro | bāraro, bāroro, bārero | bāres, bāras | bāraro, bāroro, bārero |
dative | bārumu, bārum, bārun, bārun, bāron, bāren, bāran | bārun, bāron, bārum | bāraro, bāraru, bārara | bārun, bāron | bārumu, bārum, bārun, bārun, bāron, bāren, bāran | bārun, bāron, bārum |
Weak declension | ||||||
gender | masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
case | singular | plural | singular | plural | singular | plural |
nominative | bāro, bāra | bāron, bārun | bāra, bāre | bāron, bārun, bāran | bāra, bāre | bāron, bārun |
accusative | bāron, bāran | bāron, bārun | bārun, bāron, bāran | bāron, bārun, bāran | bāra, bāre | bāron, bārun |
genitive | bāren, bāran | bārono, bāreno | bārun, bāran, bāren | bārono | bāren, bāran | bārono, bāreno |
dative | bāron, bāren, bāran | bāron, bārun | bārun, bāran | bāron, bārun | bāron, bāren, bāran | bāron, bārun |
DescendantsEdit
Old SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse *barr (Old West Norse berr), from Proto-Germanic *bazaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰosós.
AdjectiveEdit
bar
DeclensionEdit
singular | masculine | feminine | neuter |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | bar | bar | bart |
accusative | baran | bara | bart |
dative | barum, -om | barri, -re | baru, -o |
genitive | bars | barrar | bars |
plural | masculine | feminine | neuter |
nominative | barir, -e(r) | barar | bar |
accusative | bara | barar | bar |
dative | barum, -om | barum, -om | barum, -om |
genitive | barra, -a | barra, -a | barra, -a |
singular | masculine | feminine | neuter |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | bari, -e | bara | bara |
accusative | bara | baru, -o | bara |
dative | bara | baru, -o | bara |
genitive | bara | baru, -o | bara |
plural | masculine | feminine | neuter |
nominative | baru, -o | baru, -o | baru, -o |
accusative | baru, -o | baru, -o | baru, -o |
dative | baru, -o | baru, -o | baru, -o |
genitive | baru, -o | baru, -o | baru, -o |
DescendantsEdit
- Swedish: bar
PolishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
bar m inan (diminutive barek)
- bar, luncheon bar, buffet
- bar (a long table or counter where drinks are served)
- Synonym: bufet
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
Chemical element | |
---|---|
Ba | |
Previous: cez (Cs) | |
Next: lantan (La) |
bar m inan
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 3Edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).
NounEdit
bar m inan
- bar (unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
PortugueseEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from English bar.[1][2]
NounEdit
bar m (plural bares)
Etymology 2Edit
Originally from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).[1][2]
NounEdit
bar m (plural bares)
- bar (unit of pressure)
ReferencesEdit
RomaniEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Inherited from Prakrit 𑀯𑀸𑀟 (vāḍa), from Sanskrit वाट (vāṭa)[1][2] or Sanskrit वाटी (vāṭī)[2].
NounEdit
bar f (plural barǎ)
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
bar m (plural bara)
- Alternative form of barr
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “vāṭa1”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 670
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “bar”, 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 20
Further readingEdit
- Marcel Courthiade (2009), “i/e bar I, -ǎ- ʒ. -ǎ, -ěn-”, 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] (in Hungarian; English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, pages 73-74
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
bar m (plural bari)
DeclensionEdit
Serbo-CroatianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ба̑р)
DeclensionEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”), coined circa 1900.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ба̑р)
- bar (unit of pressure)
DeclensionEdit
Etymology 3Edit
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
bȁr (Cyrillic spelling ба̏р)
Etymology 4Edit
From Proto-Slavic *bъrъ.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ба̑р) (regional)
- foxtail millet (Setaria italica)
- Synonym: mȕhār
- pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum)
- Synonyms: kòšćan, bìsērno prȍso
DeclensionEdit
singular | |
---|---|
nominative | bar |
genitive | bara |
dative | baru |
accusative | bar |
vocative | bare |
locative | baru |
instrumental | barom |
ReferencesEdit
SloveneEdit
Etymology 1Edit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bȃr m inan
InflectionEdit
Masculine inan., hard o-stem | |||
---|---|---|---|
nom. sing. | bȃr | ||
gen. sing. | bȃra | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
bȃr | bȃra | bȃri |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
bȃra | bȃrov | bȃrov |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
bȃru | bȃroma | bȃrom |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
bȃr | bȃra | bȃre |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
bȃru | bȃrih | bȃrih |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
bȃrom | bȃroma | bȃri |
Etymology 2Edit
From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”), coined circa 1900.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bȃr m inan
- bar (unit of pressure)
InflectionEdit
Masculine inan., hard o-stem | |||
---|---|---|---|
nom. sing. | bȃr | ||
gen. sing. | bȃra | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
bȃr | bȃra | bȃri |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
bȃra | bȃrov | bȃrov |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
bȃru | bȃroma | bȃrom |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
bȃr | bȃra | bȃre |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
bȃru | bȃrih | bȃrih |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
bȃrom | bȃroma | bȃri |
Etymology 3Edit
Considering its Ottoman Turkish origin and smaller frequency, from Serbo-Croatian bȁr.
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
bȃr
Etymology 4Edit
From Proto-Slavic *bъrъ.
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bȃr m inan
- foxtail millet (Setaria italica)
- Synonym: laški muhvič
- pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum)
- Synonym: biserno proso
InflectionEdit
Masculine inan., hard o-stem | ||
---|---|---|
nominative | bȃr | |
genitive | bȃra | |
singular | ||
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
bȃr | |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
— | |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
— | |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
— | |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
bȃru | |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
bȃrom |
Further readingEdit
- “bar”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
SomaliEdit
VerbEdit
bar
- Alternative spelling of baro
SpanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from English bar. Doublet of barra.
NounEdit
bar m (plural bares)
- bar, coffee shop, café, pub (an establishment where refreshments and alcohol drinks are served)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from English bar and this from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).
NounEdit
bar m (plural bares)
- bar (unit of pressure)
Further readingEdit
- “bar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
SumerianEdit
RomanizationEdit
bar
- Romanization of 𒁇 (bar)
SwedishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Swedish bar, from Old Norse *barr (Old West Norse berr), from Proto-Germanic *bazaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰosós.
AdjectiveEdit
bar (comparative barare, superlative barast)
- bare, uncovered; not covered by e.g. clothes (about people), fur (about certain animals) or a snow cover (about the ground)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection of bar | |||
---|---|---|---|
Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | bar | barare | barast |
Neuter singular | bart | barare | barast |
Plural | bara | barare | barast |
Masculine plural3 | bare | barare | barast |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | bare | barare | baraste |
All | bara | barare | baraste |
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic |
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
See bära.
VerbEdit
bar
- past tense of bära.
Etymology 3Edit
Unadapted borrowing from English bar.
NounEdit
bar c
DeclensionEdit
Declension of bar | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | bar | baren | barer | barerna |
Genitive | bars | barens | barers | barernas |
DescendantsEdit
- → Finnish: baari
Etymology 4Edit
Originally from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).
NounEdit
bar c
- A bar; a unit of pressure
ReferencesEdit
- bar in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
AnagramsEdit
TagalogEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
bar
Derived termsEdit
Traveller NorwegianEdit
NounEdit
bar
- a stone
See alsoEdit
TurkishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Armenian պար (par, “dance”).
NounEdit
bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)
Etymology 3Edit
From Ottoman Turkish بار (bar), from Armenian փառ (pʿaṙ).
NounEdit
bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)
Etymology 4Edit
Ultimately from Ancient Greek weight.
NounEdit
bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)
- (unit of pressure) bar
DeclensionEdit
Inflection | ||
---|---|---|
Nominative | ||
Definite accusative | ||
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | ||
Definite accusative | ||
Dative | ||
Locative | ||
Ablative | ||
Genitive |
ReferencesEdit
- Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “պար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
- “bar”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982
WakhiEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Iranian *dwā́ram, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰwā́ram, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer-. Related to Persian در (dar).
NounEdit
bar
ZazakiEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
bar ?