U+3374, ㍴
SQUARE BAR

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EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

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)

 
Two steel bars
 
A toll bar in Romania
  1. 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.
  2. (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is 14 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.
  3. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
    bar of chocolate
    bar of soap
  4. A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
    a bar of light
    a bar of colour
  5. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
  6. (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
  7. (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.
  8. (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).
  9. 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.
  10. The counter of such premises.
    Synonym: wet bar
    Step up to the bar and order a drink.
  11. A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
  12. (by extension, in combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar, etc.) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
  13. An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.
  14. An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
    a burger bar
    a local fish bar
  15. An establishment offering cosmetic services.
    a nail bar; a brow bar
  16. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
    Synonyms: ban, prohibition
    The club has lifted its bar on women members.
  17. 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.
  18. (programming, whimsical, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
    Suppose we have four objects, foo, bar, baz and quux.
  19. (UK, Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
  20. (UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
  21. (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.
  22. (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.
  23. (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.
  24. (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
  25. (music) One of those musical sections.
    Synonym: measure
  26. (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
  27. (figurative) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
  28. (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.
  29. (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
  30. An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
  31. A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
  32. (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.
  33. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
  34. A city gate, in some British place names.
    Temple Bar, London
  35. (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
  36. (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
  37. (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
  38. (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.
  39. (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
  40. (slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
Derived termsEdit
terms derived from the noun "bar"
DescendantsEdit
  • Arabic: بَار‎ m (bār)
  • Armenian: բար (bar)
  • Bulgarian: бар (bar)
  • Burmese: ဘား (bha:)
  • Chichewa: bála
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: ()
  • 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 ()
  • Khmer: បារ (baa)
  • Korean: (ba)
  • Lithuanian: bãras m
  • Macedonian: бар m (bar)
  • Malagasy: ba
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: bar m
    Nynorsk: bar m
  • 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)

  1. (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.'
  2. (transitive) To prohibit.
    I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred.
  3. (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
    bar the door
  4. 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
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
TranslationsEdit

PrepositionEdit

bar

  1. 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.
  2. (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

  1. ^ barren, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2018, retrieved 31 October 2019.

Etymology 3Edit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, weight), coined circa 1900.

 
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NounEdit

bar (plural bars)

  1. 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
  • Chinese: ()
  • Finnish: baari
  • Galician: bar m
  • Greek: μπαρ n (bar)
  • Hebrew: בָּר(bar)
  • Icelandic: bar n
  • Irish: bar m
  • Korean: (ba)
  • Spanish: bar m
TranslationsEdit

Further readingEdit

AnagramsEdit

AfarEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈbʌɾ/
  • Hyphenation: bar

NounEdit

bár m (plural baritté f)

  1. night
  2. age

DeclensionEdit

Declension of bár
absolutive bár
predicative bára
subjective barí
genitive bartí
Postpositioned forms
l-case báral
k-case bárak
t-case bárat
h-case bárah

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

From Dutch bar.

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

bar (attributive barre, comparative barder, superlative barste)

  1. barren

ReferencesEdit

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)

  1. grass
  2. (figurative) tasteless food
DeclensionEdit

Etymology 2Edit

NounEdit

bar m (indefinite plural barna, definite singular bari, definite plural barnat)

  1. medicine, medication, medicinal plant; mineral (see Lat. magnes in Frang Bardhi)
  2. (figurative, colloquial) cure, palliative, solution
  3. (figurative, colloquial) marijuana, likely a calque from English or French
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ D. Q. Adams, "Heal: *bher-", in Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture (London: Fitzroy-Dearborn, 1997), 262.
  2. ^ Orel, Vladimir (1998) Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 17

AzerbaijaniEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Persian بار.

NounEdit

bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)

  1. fruit
    Synonym: meyvə
  2. crop, harvest, yield
    Synonym: məhsul
  3. (figurative) fruit (an end result, effect, or consequence)
    Synonym: bəhrə
  4. (archaic) burden
    Synonym: yük

Etymology 2Edit

Ultimately from English bar.

NounEdit

bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)

  1. bar (a business selling alcoholic drinks)

Etymology 3Edit

Internationalism; ultimately from French bar, from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros).

NounEdit

bar

  1. (meteorology) bar (unit of pressure)

DeclensionEdit

    Declension of bar
singular plural
nominative bar
barlar
definite accusative barı
barları
dative bara
barlara
locative barda
barlarda
ablative bardan
barlardan
definite genitive barın
barların
    Possessive forms of bar
nominative
singular plural
mənim (my) barım barlarım
sənin (your) barın barların
onun (his/her/its) barı barları
bizim (our) barımız barlarımız
sizin (your) barınız barlarınız
onların (their) barı or barları barları
accusative
singular plural
mənim (my) barımı barlarımı
sənin (your) barını barlarını
onun (his/her/its) barını barlarını
bizim (our) barımızı barlarımızı
sizin (your) barınızı barlarınızı
onların (their) barını or barlarını barlarını
dative
singular plural
mənim (my) barıma barlarıma
sənin (your) barına barlarına
onun (his/her/its) barına barlarına
bizim (our) barımıza barlarımıza
sizin (your) barınıza barlarınıza
onların (their) barına or barlarına barlarına
locative
singular plural
mənim (my) barımda barlarımda
sənin (your) barında barlarında
onun (his/her/its) barında barlarında
bizim (our) barımızda barlarımızda
sizin (your) barınızda barlarınızda
onların (their) barında or barlarında barlarında
ablative
singular plural
mənim (my) barımdan barlarımdan
sənin (your) barından barlarından
onun (his/her/its) barından barlarından
bizim (our) barımızdan barlarımızdan
sizin (your) barınızdan barlarınızdan
onların (their) barından or barlarından barlarından
genitive
singular plural
mənim (my) barımın barlarımın
sənin (your) barının barlarının
onun (his/her/its) barının barlarının
bizim (our) barımızın barlarımızın
sizin (your) barınızın barlarınızın
onların (their) barının or barlarının barlarının

Further readingEdit

  • bar” in Obastan.com.

CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French barre.

NounEdit

bar m (plural bars)

  1. bar (establishment)
  2. bar (unit of measure)

CimbrianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle High German wir, from Old High German wir, from Proto-West Germanic *wiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *wīz.

PronounEdit

bar

  1. (Sette Comuni) we
    Synonym: bandare
    Bar zeinan bèllase.We are Italians.
    Bar zeinda.We are here.
    Bar habanze galummet.We took them.

InflectionEdit

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

  1. there is, there are, indicates existence or possession
    Antonym: yoq

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

bar

  1. second-person singular imperative of barmaq (to go, to arrive)

CzechEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from English bar.

NounEdit

bar m

  1. bar (a business selling beverages)
  2. bar (the counter of such a premises)
  3. bar (a cabinet used to store alcoholic drinks in a private house or a hotel room)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

 
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Borrowing from modern European languages, originally coined based on Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, weight).

NounEdit

bar m

  1. bar, a non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals
DeclensionEdit

Further readingEdit

  • bar in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • bar in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

DalmatianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin bibere.

VerbEdit

bar (second-person plural present baite)

  1. 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)

  1. bare, naked
  2. sheer, pure
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from English bar.

NounEdit

bar c (singular definite baren, plural indefinite barer)

  1. 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)

  1. bar (unit of pressure)
InflectionEdit

Etymology 4Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

bar

  1. past tense of bære

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from English bar.

NounEdit

bar m (plural bars, diminutive barretje n)

  1. A bar, counter, drink cabinet.
  2. A bar, pub serving alcohol.
Derived termsEdit

-types of establishment

DescendantsEdit
  • Caribbean Javanese: bar
  • Indonesian: bar

Etymology 2Edit

From Old French barhaine, probably of Germanic origin, possibly Frankish *baʀ (bare; barren).

AdjectiveEdit

bar (comparative barder, superlative barst)

  1. harsh, tough (used mainly with koude (cold), or omstandigheden (conditions))
  2. barren, inhospitable, bare
  3. crude, grim, unfriendly
InflectionEdit
Inflection of bar
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

  1. extremely (only in a negative sense)

Etymology 4Edit

From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, weight), coined c. 1900.

NounEdit

bar

  1. bar (a unit of pressure, equal to 100,000 pascals)
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

  1. he, it bore, carried: 1st and 3rd person singular past tense form of bera (to bear, to carry)

ConjugationEdit

Conjugation of bera (group v-54)
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

  1. bar (establishment)
  2. bar (counter)
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
  • Romanian: bar

Etymology 2Edit

Of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *barsaz (perch).

NounEdit

bar m

  1. bass (fish)
Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

GalicianEdit

 
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Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from English bar.

NounEdit

bar m (plural bares)

  1. 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)

  1. bar (unit of pressure)

GermanEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle High German and Old High German bar.

AdjectiveEdit

bar (not comparable)

  1. bare
DeclensionEdit

AdverbEdit

bar

  1. in cash
  2. pure

PrepositionEdit

bar

  1. (+genitive) without
    Synonyms: ohne, sonder, außer, ausschließlich

Etymology 2Edit

DeterminerEdit

bar (invariable)

  1. Obsolete form of paar (a few, couple).

Further readingEdit

  • bar” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • bar” in Duden online

GothicEdit

RomanizationEdit

bar

  1. 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)

  1. bar (establishment offering alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises)
  2. bar (counter at which such beverages are sold or offered)
  3. (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)

  1. bar (unit of pressure)
DeclensionEdit

Etymology 3Edit

VerbEdit

bar

  1. first/third-person singular past indicative active of bera

IndonesianEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [ˈbar]
  • Hyphenation: Indonesian

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)

  1. bar, pub: an establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.

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)

  1. (physics) bar: a non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.

Further readingEdit

IrishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English bar, from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, weight).

NounEdit

bar m (genitive singular bair, nominative plural bair)

  1. 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

  • IPA(key): /ˈbar/
  • Rhymes: -ar
  • Syllabification: bàr

NounEdit

bar m

  1. bar (place serving drinks)
    C'è un bar qui vicino?Is there a bar nearby?
  2. café
  3. bar (unit of pressure)

Derived termsEdit

LatvianEdit

VerbEdit

bar

  1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of bārt
  2. 3rd person singular present indicative form of bārt
  3. 3rd person plural present indicative form of bārt
  4. 2nd person singular imperative form of bārt
  5. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of bārt
  6. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of bārt

MarshalleseEdit

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

bar

  1. empty

AdverbEdit

bar

  1. again
  2. also
  3. more

DeterminerEdit

bar

  1. more

NounEdit

bar

  1. head
  2. rock
  3. top; tip

ReferencesEdit

Middle EnglishEdit

NounEdit

bar

  1. (Northern) Alternative form of bor

Northern KurdishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Related to Persian بار (bâr).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /bɑːɾ/
  • Hyphenation: Northern Kurdish
  • Rhymes: -ɑːɾ

NounEdit

bar m

  1. burden (a heavy load)

Norwegian BokmålEdit

 
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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)

  1. 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.
Derived termsEdit

See alsoEdit

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from English bar.

NounEdit

bar m (definite singular baren, indefinite plural barer, definite plural barene)

  1. a bar (place where alcohol is served)
  2. a bar (sandbank at the mouth of a river or harbour)
Related termsEdit

Etymology 3Edit

From Old Norse barr.

NounEdit

bar n (definite singular baret, uncountable)

  1. the needles of the conifers, twigs and branches of conifers
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 4Edit

 bar (enhet) on Norwegian Wikipedia

From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, weight).

NounEdit

bar m (definite singular baren, indefinite plural bar, definite plural barene)

  1. bar (a non-SI unit of pressure)
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 5Edit

VerbEdit

bar

  1. simple past of bære

ReferencesEdit

Norwegian NynorskEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

VerbEdit

bar

  1. past tense of bera

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from English bar.

NounEdit

bar m (definite singular baren, indefinite plural barar, definite plural barane)

  1. a bar (place where alcohol is served)
  2. a bar (sandbank at the mouth of a river or harbour)
Related termsEdit

Etymology 3Edit

From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, weight), coined circa 1900.

 
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NounEdit

bar m (definite singular baren, indefinite plural barar, definite plural barane)

  1. bar (a non-SI unit of pressure)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit

Etymology 4Edit

From Old Norse barr.

NounEdit

bar n (definite singular baret, uncountable)

  1. 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 []
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 5Edit

AdjectiveEdit

bar (neuter bart, definite singular and plural bare, comparative barare, indefinite superlative barast, definite superlative baraste)

  1. (pre-2012) alternative form of berr
  2. (pre-1938) alternative form of berr

ReferencesEdit

Old EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-West Germanic *bair.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bār m

  1. boar

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

  1. bare

DescendantsEdit

Old IrishEdit

PronunciationEdit

DeterminerEdit

bar

  1. Alternative form of for (your pl)

Old NorseEdit

VerbEdit

bar

  1. first/third-person singular past indicative active of bera

Old SaxonEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz.

AdjectiveEdit

bār

  1. bare

DeclensionEdit


DescendantsEdit

  • Middle Low German: bâr
    • German Low German: baar

Old SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse *barr (Old West Norse berr), from Proto-Germanic *bazaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰosós.

AdjectiveEdit

bar

  1. bare

DeclensionEdit

DescendantsEdit

PolishEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from English bar.

NounEdit

bar m inan (diminutive barek)

  1. bar, luncheon bar, buffet
  2. bar (a long table or counter where drinks are served)
    Synonym: bufet
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
adjectives
nouns
Related termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Latin barium.

NounEdit

Chemical element
Ba
Previous: cez (Cs)
Next: lantan (La)

bar m inan

  1. barium
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
adjective

Etymology 3Edit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, weight).

NounEdit

bar m inan

  1. bar (unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
adjective

Further readingEdit

  • bar in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • bar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

PortugueseEdit

 bar on Portuguese Wikipedia

PronunciationEdit

 

  • (Caipira Brazil) IPA(key): [ˈbaɹ], [ˈbaɻ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Hyphenation: Portuguese

Etymology 1Edit

 Bar (estabelecimento) on Portuguese Wikipedia

Borrowed from English bar.[1][2]

NounEdit

bar m (plural bares)

  1. pub; bar (establishment that serves alcoholic beverages primarily)

Etymology 2Edit

 Bar (unidade) on Portuguese Wikipedia

Originally from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, weight).[1][2]

NounEdit

bar m (plural bares)

  1. bar (unit of pressure)

ReferencesEdit

  1. 1.0 1.1 bar” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
  2. 2.0 2.1 bar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

RomaniEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀯𑀸𑀟 (vāḍa), from Sanskrit वाट (vāṭa)[1][2] or Sanskrit वाटी (vāṭī)[2].

NounEdit

bar f (plural barǎ)

  1. enclosure

Etymology 2Edit

NounEdit

bar m (plural bara)

  1. Alternative form of barr

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “vāṭa1”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 670
  2. 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

From French bar.

NounEdit

bar m (plural bari)

  1. bar

DeclensionEdit

Serbo-CroatianEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from English bar.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ба̑р)

  1. public house, bar
DeclensionEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, weight), coined circa 1900.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ба̑р)

  1. bar (unit of pressure)
DeclensionEdit

Etymology 3Edit

Clipping of bàrem.

PronunciationEdit

AdverbEdit

bȁr (Cyrillic spelling ба̏р)

  1. at least

Etymology 4Edit

From Proto-Slavic *bъrъ.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ба̑р) (regional)

  1. foxtail millet (Setaria italica)
    Synonym: mȕhār
  2. pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum)
    Synonyms: kòšćan, bìsērno prȍso
DeclensionEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • bar” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • bar” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • bar” in Hrvatski jezični portal
  • bar” in Hrvatski jezični portal

SloveneEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from English bar.

 
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PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bȃr m inan

  1. public house, bar
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.

 
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PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bȃr m inan

  1. 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

  1. at least
    Synonym: vsaj
  2. even though
    Synonym: čeprav
  3. otherwise, for else
    Synonym: sicer

Etymology 4Edit

From Proto-Slavic *bъrъ.

 
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Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bȃr m inan

  1. foxtail millet (Setaria italica)
    Synonym: laški muhvič
  2. 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

  1. Alternative spelling of baro

SpanishEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈbaɾ/ [ˈbaɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: bar

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from English bar. Doublet of barra.

NounEdit

bar m (plural bares)

  1. 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)

  1. bar (unit of pressure)

Further readingEdit

SumerianEdit

RomanizationEdit

bar

  1. 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)

  1. 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

  1. past tense of bära.

Etymology 3Edit

Unadapted borrowing from English bar.

NounEdit

bar c

  1. a bar, pub; place where mainly alcoholic drinks are served.
  2. a bar, a bar counter
DeclensionEdit
Declension of bar 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative bar baren barer barerna
Genitive bars barens barers barernas
DescendantsEdit

Etymology 4Edit

Originally from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, weight).

NounEdit

bar c

  1. A bar; a unit of pressure

ReferencesEdit

  • bar in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

AnagramsEdit

TagalogEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English bar.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bar

  1. bar (business selling alcoholic drinks)
    Synonyms: inuman, barikan, taberna
  2. (law) bar exam
  3. iron or steel bar
    Synonym: baras

Derived termsEdit

Traveller NorwegianEdit

NounEdit

bar

  1. a stone

See alsoEdit

TurkishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from Armenian պար (par, dance).

NounEdit

bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)

  1. (dialectal) dance, round dance

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from English bar.

NounEdit

bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)

  1. bar, pub

Etymology 3Edit

From Ottoman Turkish بار(bar), from Armenian փառ (pʿaṙ).

NounEdit

bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)

  1. (dialectal) dirt, dust

Etymology 4Edit

Ultimately from Ancient Greek weight.

NounEdit

bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)

  1. (unit of pressure) bar
DeclensionEdit
Inflection
Nominative bar
Definite accusative barı
Singular Plural
Nominative bar barlar
Definite accusative barı barları
Dative bara barlara
Locative barda barlarda
Ablative bardan barlardan
Genitive barın barların

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

  1. door

ZazakiEdit

EtymologyEdit

Related to Persian بار (bâr).

NounEdit

bar ?

  1. load, burden