bar
English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- (UK) IPA: /bɑː/, X-SAMPA: /bA:/
- (US) enPR: bär, IPA: /bɑɹ/, [bɑɹ], [bɑ˞], X-SAMPA: /bAr/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
- Homophones: baa, bah (in some pronunciations)
Etymology 1 [edit]
From Middle English 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 *bʰAr- (“log, board, plank”). If so, then cognate with Old High German para, bara (“bar, beam, one's cherished land”), 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”).
Noun [edit]
bar (countable and uncountable; plural bars)
- A solid, more or less rigid object 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 .25 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 expected a carload of bar tomorrow.
- A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- bar of chocolate
- bar of soap
- A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
- A diacritical mark that consists of a line drawn through a grapheme. (For example, turning A into Ⱥ.)
- A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house.
- The street was lined with all-night bars.
- The counter of such a premises.
- 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.
- In combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar, etc., a premises or counter serving non-alcoholic drinks.
- An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
- The club has lifted its bar on women members.
- (computing, whimsical, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
- Suppose we have two objects, foo and bar.
- (UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay
- (law, "the Bar") Short for the Bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
- He's studying hard to pass the Bar this time; he's failed it twice before.
- (law, "the Bar") A collective term for lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others.
- (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- (music) One of those musical sections.
- (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault
- (soccer) The crossbar
- 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, BBC:
- Composed play then saw Sam Ricketts nutmeg Ashley Cole before Taylor whipped a fine curling effort over Petr Cech's bar.
- 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, BBC:
- (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.
- (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).
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.
- An informal unit of measure of signal strength for a wireless device such as a cell phone.
- There were no bars so I didn't get your text.
- A city gate in UK places names, such as 'Potters Bar.'
Synonyms [edit]
- (business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages): barroom, ginshop, pub (British), public house, tavern
- (official order prohibiting some activity): ban, prohibition
- (section of a staff, in music): measure
- See also Wikisaurus:pub
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
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See also [edit]
- (heraldry):
Ordinary on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Ordinary (heraldry)
Verb [edit]
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).
- 1906, Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:
- "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."
- "One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, I'm after a prize to-night,
- Our way was barred by a huge rockfall.
- 1906, Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:
- (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, Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, section 1
- I lived in a hut in the yard, but 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.
- 1899, Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, section 1
Synonyms [edit]
- (obstruct): block, hinder, obstruct
- (prohibit): ban, interdict, prohibit
- (lock or bolt with a bar):
- See also Wikisaurus:hinder
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
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Preposition [edit]
bar
- Except, with the exception of.
- He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife.
- (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.
Synonyms [edit]
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
References [edit]
- The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [1]
Etymology 2 [edit]
From Ancient Greek βάρος (baros, “weight”), coined c. 1900.
Noun [edit]
bar (plural bars)
Derived terms [edit]
Related terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
Anagrams [edit]
External links [edit]
Bar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Bar in the 1920 edition of Encyclopedia Americana.
Afar [edit]
Noun [edit]
bar
Albanian [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
From Proto-Albanian *bara, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (compare Greek φάρμακον (phármakon) ‘drug, medicine’, Lithuanain bùrti ‘to conjure’).[1] Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *bʰars- ‘spike, prickle’ (compare Old Norse barr (“corn, grain, barley”), Welsh bara ‘bread’, Latin far ‘spelt’, Serbo-Croatian бра̏шно/brȁšno.
Alternative forms [edit]
- barë (neuter; Tosk)
Noun [edit]
bar m (indefinite plural barna, definite singular bari)
References [edit]
- ^ D.Q. Adams, "Heal: *bher-", in Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture (London: Fitzroy-Dearborn, 1997), 262.
Etymology 2 [edit]
from Proto-Albanian *bara, from *bera 'to carry' (modern bie). More at bie.
Alternative forms [edit]
Verb [edit]
bar
Derived terms [edit]
Related terms [edit]
Czech [edit]
Noun [edit]
bar m
- A bar (business selling beverages)
Derived terms [edit]
- barový m
Related terms [edit]
- barman m
Dalmatian [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin bibere, present active infinitive of bibō.
Verb [edit]
bar
- to drink
Danish [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /baːr/, [b̥ɑːˀ]
Etymology 1 [edit]
From Old Norse berr (“bare”). Compare Old English bær.
Adjective [edit]
bar (neuter bart, definite and plural bare)
Etymology 2 [edit]
From English bar.
Noun [edit]
bar c (singular definite baren, plural indefinite barer)
- bar (business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages, counter of such a premises)
Inflection [edit]
Etymology 3 [edit]
From Ancient Greek βάρος (baros, “weight”)
Noun [edit]
bar c (plural indefinite bar)
- bar (unit of pressure)
Etymology 4 [edit]
See bære (“to bear, carry”).
Verb [edit]
bar
- past of bære
Dutch [edit]
Pronunciation 1 [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
From English bar
Noun [edit]
bar m (plural bars, diminutive barretje)
- A bar, counter, drink cabinet
- A bar, pub
Derived terms [edit]
Pronunciation 2 [edit]
Etymology 2 [edit]
cognate with English barren This definition is lacking an etymology or has an incomplete etymology. You can help Wiktionary by giving it a proper etymology.
Adjective [edit]
bar (comparative barder, superlative barst)
- harsh, tough (used mainly with koude (cold), or omstandigheden (conditions))
- barren, inhospitable, bare
- crude, grim, unfriendly
Declension [edit]
Adverb [edit]
bar
- extremely (only in a negative sense)
Pronunciation 3 [edit]
Etymology 3 [edit]
From Ancient Greek βάρος (baros, “weight”), coined c. 1900.
Noun [edit]
bar (plural bars)
Derived terms [edit]
Related terms [edit]
References [edit]
- M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]
Faroese [edit]
Verb [edit]
bar
Conjugation [edit]
Derived terms [edit]
French [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
bar m (plural bars)
German [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Adjective [edit]
bar
Adverb [edit]
bar
Preposition [edit]
bar
Synonyms [edit]
Gothic [edit]
Romanization [edit]
bar
- See 𐌱𐌰𐍂
Icelandic [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
From English bar (1), from Old French barre.
Noun [edit]
bar m (genitive singular bars, 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
Declension [edit]
Etymology 2 [edit]
From English bar (2), from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).
Noun [edit]
bar n (genitive singular bars, plural bör)
- bar (unit of pressure)
Declension [edit]
Italian [edit]
Etymology [edit]
English
Noun [edit]
bar m (plural bar)
Derived terms [edit]
Kurdish [edit]
Noun [edit]
bar m
- burden (a heavy load)
This Kurdish entry was created from the translations listed at burden. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see bar in the Kurdish Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) October 2009
Lojban [edit]
Rafsi [edit]
bar
Old English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Proto-Germanic *baizaz.
Noun [edit]
bār m
- A boar
Old High German [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Proto-Germanic *bazaz, whence also Old English bær, Old Norse berr.
Pronunciation [edit]
Adjective [edit]
bar
Old Saxon [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Proto-Germanic *bazaz, whence also Old English bær, Old Norse berr.
Adjective [edit]
bār
Declension [edit]
| Strong declension | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | ||||
| singular | plural | singular | plural | singular | plural | |
| nominative | bār | bāre | bār | bāre | bār | bāru |
| accusative | bāran | bāre | bār | bāre | bāra | bāru |
| genitive | bāres | bārarō | bāres | bārarō | bāraro | bārarō |
| dative | bārumu | bārum | bārumu | bārum | bāraro | bārum |
| Weak declension | ||||||
| masculine | neuter | feminine | ||||
| singular | plural | singular | plural | singular | plural | |
| nominative | bāro | bāru | bāra | bāru | bāra | bāru |
| accusative | bārun | bārun | bāra | bārun | bārun | bārun |
| genitive | bārun | bāronō | bārun | bāronō | bārun | bāronō |
| dative | bārun | bārum | bārun | bārum | bārun | bārum |
Polish [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
From English bar
Noun [edit]
bar m
- bar, lunchon bar, buffet
- bar (a long table or counter where drinks are served)
Declension [edit]
Derived terms [edit]
Etymology 2 [edit]
From Latin barium
Noun [edit]
bar m
Declension [edit]
| #1 | #2 |
Portuguese [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From English bar.
Pronunciation [edit]
- (Portugal) IPA: /baɾ/
- (Caipira) IPA: /baɹ/
- (South Brazil) IPA: /baɻ/
- (Carioca) IPA: /baχ/
- (Nordestino) IPA: /bah/
Noun [edit]
bar m (plural bares)
Romani [edit]
Noun [edit]
bar f (plural bara)
bar m (plural bar)
Derived terms [edit]
Serbo-Croatian [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
From English bar
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /bâːr/
Noun [edit]
bȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ба̑р)
Declension [edit]
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | bȃr | bȁrovi |
| genitive | bara | bara |
| dative | baru | barima |
| accusative | bar | bare |
| vocative | bare | bari |
| locative | baru | barima |
| instrumental | barom | barima |
Etymology 2 [edit]
From Ancient Greek βάρος (baros, “weight”), coined c. 1900.
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /bâːr/
Noun [edit]
bȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ба̑р)
- bar (unit of pressure)
Declension [edit]
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | bȃr | bȃri |
| genitive | bara | barova |
| dative | baru | barovima |
| accusative | bar | barove |
| vocative | baru | barovi |
| locative | baru | barovima |
| instrumental | barom | barovima |
Etymology 3 [edit]
Shortened from bàrem
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /bâr/
Adverb [edit]
bȁr (Cyrillic spelling ба̏р)
Spanish [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From English bar.
Noun [edit]
bar m (plural bares)
Swedish [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
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Etymology 1 [edit]
From Old Swedish bar (Old Norse berr). Cognate with English bare. See Old English bær.[1]
Adjective [edit]
bar
- bare, uncovered; not covered by e.g. clothes (about people), fur (about certain animals) or a snow cover (about the ground)
Declension [edit]
Etymology 2 [edit]
See bära.
Verb [edit]
bar
- past tense of bära.
Etymology 3 [edit]
Noun [edit]
bar c
- A bar, pub; place where mainly alcoholic drinks are served.
- A (bar) counter
Declension [edit]
Etymology 4 [edit]
Originally from Ancient Greek βάρος (baros, “weight”).
Noun [edit]
bar c
- A bar; a unit of pressure
References [edit]
Turkish [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Armenian պար (par, “dance”).
Noun [edit]
bar
- (dialectal) dance, round dance
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