barre chord

English

A barre chord ("E major shape")

A barre chord on guitar tablature

Etymology

Borrowed from French barre.

Noun

barre chord (plural barre chords)

1. (music) A guitar chord played by pressing down multiple strings on the fretboard.

Synonyms

• (a guitar chord): bar chord, barr chord (rare)

Translations

a guitar chord

• Bulgarian: баре (bare)
• Czech: barré (cs)
• Danish: barregreb
• Dutch: barré-akkoord
• Esperanto: baro
• Finnish: barré-sointu (fi)
• German: Barrégriff, Barreegriff, Quergriff
• Japanese: バレーコード
• Latvian: barē akords
• Polish: chwyt barowy m
• Russian: баррэ́ (ru) (barrɛ́)
• Serbo-Croatian: barre akord
• Swedish: barréackord
• Vietnamese: ba rê, ba-rê