barre

See also: Barre, barré, and barrë

English

barre chord

Etymology

Borrowed from French barre. Doublet of bar.

Noun

barre (plural barres)

1. (ballet) A handrail fixed to a wall used for ballet exercises.
2. (music) Short for barre chord.

Translations

a handrail fixed to a wall

• Finnish: tanko (fi)

• French: barre (fr) f

Anagrams

• Berra, Raber, aberr, barer, rebar

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Basque

Etymology

Probably of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.re/

Noun

barre inan

1. laughter

Declension

Declension of barre (inan, -V)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	barre	barrea	barreak
ergative	barrek	barreak	barreek
dative	barreri	barreari	barreei
genitive	barreren	barrearen	barreen
comitative	barrerekin	barrearekin	barreekin
causative	barrerengatik	barrearengatik	barreengatik
benefactive	barrerentzat	barrearentzat	barreentzat
instrumental	barrez	barreaz	barreez
inessive	barretan	barrean	barreetan
locative	barretako	barreko	barreetako
allative	barretara	barrera	barreetara
terminative	barretaraino	barreraino	barreetaraino
directive	barretarantz	barrerantz	barreetarantz
destinative	barretarako	barrerako	barreetarako
ablative	barretatik	barretik	barreetatik
partitive	barrerik	―	―
prolative	barretzat	―	―

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French barre (“bar, ingot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /barə/, [ˈb̥ɑːɑ]

Noun

barre c (singular definite barren, plural indefinite barrer)

1. ingot
2. bar
3. (gymnastics) parallel bars, uneven bars

Inflection

Declension of barre

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	barre	barren	barrer	barrerne
genitive	barres	barrens	barrers	barrernes

Further reading

• barre on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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French

Etymology

From Middle French barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old Frankish *bara (“bar, beam, barrier, fence”), from Proto-Germanic *barō (“beam, bar, barrier”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to strike, pierce”).

If so, then cognate with Old High German para, bara (“bar, beam, one's cherished land”), Middle Dutch bāre, baer (“bar, barrier, rail”), Old Frisian ber (“attack, assault”), Swedish bärling (“a spoke”), Norwegian berling (“a small bar in a vehicle, rod”), Latin forus (“gangway, plank”), Russian забо́р (zabór, “fencing, paling, fence”), Ancient Greek φάρος (pháros, “piece of land, furrow, marker, beacon, lighthouse”).

An alternative etymology derives Old French barre and Vulgar Latin *barra from a Celtic source related to Breton barri (“branch, twig”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baʁ/, /bɑʁ/

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Noun

barre f (plural barres)

1. bar, cake, ingot
2. (typography) Clipping of barre oblique: the slash mark ⟨/⟩
3. (typography) Clipping of barre de fraction: the fraction slash ⟨⁄⟩
4. (typography) Clipping of barre inscrite: the bar diacritics ⟨̵⟩, ⟨̶⟩, ⟨̷⟩, and ⟨̸⟩
5. (typography) Clipping of barre verticale: the pipe mark ⟨|⟩
6. (typography, improper) Clipping of barre oblique inversée: the backslash ⟨\⟩
7. (nautical) helm, tiller
8. (heraldry) bend sinister

Related terms

• barreur
• coup de barre

Further reading

• “barre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• arbre

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Italian

Noun

barre f

1. plural of barra

Anagrams

• berrà

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Latin

Noun

barre

1. vocative singular of barrus

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Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey)

  (file)

Noun

barre f (plural barres)

1. (Jersey, nautical) helm, tiller; reef
2. (Jersey, cycling) crossbar

Synonyms

• (crossbar): barre dé travèrs

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German Barre, Barren, from French barre and Latin barra

Noun

barre m (definite singular barren, indefinite plural barrer, definite plural barrene)

1. a bar or ingot (of precious metal)
2. a barre (e.g. for ballet training)

Derived terms

• gullbarre

References

• “barre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• NAOB [1]

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From German Barren, from French barre and Latin barra

Noun

barre m (definite singular barren, indefinite plural barrar, definite plural barrane)

1. a bar or ingot (of precious metal)

Derived terms

• gullbarre

References

• “barre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *barra

Noun

barre f (oblique plural barres, nominative singular barre, nominative plural barres)

1. bar (solid, more or less rigid object with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length)
   • 12^th Century, Unknown, Raoul de Cambrai:

     Elle a l'us clos et fermet a la barre.

     She shut the door and closed it using the bar

Descendants

• English: bar
• French: barre

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Portuguese

Verb

barre

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of barrar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of barrar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of barrar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of barrar

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Spanish

Verb

barre

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of barrer.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of barrer.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of barrer.