Bart

See also: bart, Bårt, BART, bárt, bärt, and bārt

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɑɹt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɑːt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
• Homophones: BART, baht (non-rhotic)

Noun

Bart (plural Barts)

1. (UK) Abbreviation or diminutive for baronet, later replaced by Bt. It is a post-nominative title; the pre-nominative is Sir (e.g. Sir John Smith Bart.).

   Synonym: Bt

   • 1867, W.S. Gilbert, Joe Golightly:

     The First Lord's daughter proud,
     Snubbed earls and viscounts nightly—
     She sneered at barts aloud.
     And spurned poor Joe Golightly.

Proper noun

Bart

1. A diminutive of the male given name Bartholomew.

Anagrams

• BRAT, T-bar, brat

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑrt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Bart
• Rhymes: -ɑrt

Proper noun

Bart m

1. a male given name

German

Ein Mann mit prominentem Bart

A man with a prominent beard

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰers-?

Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂der.

Proto-Germanic *bardaz

Proto-West Germanic *bard

Old High German bart

Middle High German bart

German Bart

Inherited from Middle High German bart, from Old High German bart, from Proto-West Germanic *bard, from Proto-Germanic *bardaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰéh₂ (“beard”), possibly from *bʰers-. Compare Dutch baard, Luxembourgish Baart, West Frisian burd, English beard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baːrt/, [baːʁt], [baːɐ̯t], [baːt]
• IPA^(key): /bart/, [b̥ɑrt], [b̥ɑːt] (southern)

• Audio:

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• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Homophones: Bad, bat (some speakers)

Noun

Bart m (strong, genitive Bartes or Barts, plural Bärte, diminutive Bärtchen n)

1. beard
2. bit (the part of a key which interacts with the lock)

Declension

Declension of Bart [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Bart	die	Bärte
genitive	eines	des	Bartes, Barts	der	Bärte
dative	einem	dem	Bart, Barte1	den	Bärten
accusative	einen	den	Bart	die	Bärte

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

• Backenbart
• Bartaffe
• Bartbinde
• Bartel
• Bartfaden
• Bartflechte
• Bartgeier
• Bartgras
• Barthaar
• bärtig
• bartlos
• Bartmeise
• Bartrobbe
• Bartscher
• Bartstoppel
• Bartträger
• Bartwichse
• Bartwuchs
• bebartet
• beim Barte des Propheten
• Blaubart
• Damenbart
• Dreitagebart
• Gebärt
• in den Bart murmeln
• jemandem Honig um den Bart schmieren
• jemandem um den Bart gehen
• Kastenbart
• Kehlbart
• Kinnbart
• Knebelbart
• Milchbart
• Oberlippenbart
• Rauschebart
• Rollbart
• Schifferkrause
• Schlüsselbart
• Schnauzbart
• Schnurrbart
• Seitenbart
• so einen Bart haben
• Spitzbart
• Stoppelbart
• Streichbart
• um des Kaisers Bart streiten
• Vollbart
• Witz mit Bart
• Zickenbart
• Ziegenbart
• Zweifingerbart

Further reading

• “Bart”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Bart” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Bart” in Duden online
• Bart on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Bart” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.