barre

English

Noun

barre (plural barres)

1. (ballet) A handrail fixed to a wall used for ballet exercises.

Translations

a handrail fixed to a wall

Finnish: tanko (fi)

French: barre (fr) f.

Anagrams

• aberr
• barer
• rebar

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Danish

Etymology

From French barre (“bar, ingot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /barə/, [ˈb̥ɑːɑ]

Noun

barre c. (singular definite barren, plural indefinite barrer)

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

Inflection

    Inflection of barre

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

External links

• Barre on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia

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French

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /baʁ/, SAMPA: /baR/

Noun

barre f. (plural barres)

1. bar, cake, ingot
2. stripe, dash, stroke, slash
3. helm, tiller

Related terms

• barreur

Anagrams

• arbre

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Italian

Noun

barre f.

1. Plural form of barra.

Anagrams

• berrà

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Old French

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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Spanish

Verb

barre (infinitive barrer)

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.