baar

See also: Baar, bår, and -baar

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bɑːɾ]

Etymology 1

From Dutch baren, from Middle Dutch baren, beren, from Old Dutch beran, baran, from Proto-Germanic *beraną. Cognate with German gebären, English to bear.

Verb

baar (present baar, present participle barende, past participle gebaar)

1. to give birth to; to bear

Usage notes

• The passive is formed with the irregular past participle gebore. Compare:

  Die vrou het gisteraand ’n kind gebaar. ― The woman bore a child last night.

  Die kind is gisteraand gebore. ― The child was born last night.

Etymology 2

From Dutch baar, from Middle Dutch bâre, from Old Dutch *bāra, from Proto-Germanic *bērō, derived from etymology 1. Cognate with German Bahre, English bier.

Noun

baar (plural bare)

1. stretcher; litter; bier.

Etymology 3

From Dutch baar, from Middle Dutch bâre. Possibly identical with etymology 2.

Noun

baar (plural bare)

1. big wave; breaker.

Synonyms

• brander

Etymology 4

From Dutch baar, from Middle Dutch bare, from Old French barre. Cognate with German Barren, English bar.

Noun

baar (plural bare)

1. bar (of metal)

Etymology 5

From Malay baru (“new”), in part directly, in part through the Dutch nominalisation baar (“newcomer”).

Adjective

baar (attributive bare, comparative baarder, superlative baarste)

1. inexperienced

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

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Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German wār, from Old High German wār, from Proto-Germanic *wēraz (“true”). Cognate with German wahr, Dutch waar, German Low German wahr, West Frisian wier.

Adjective

baar

1. (Sette Comuni) true

   De khimmest, is baar?

   You're coming, right?

   (literally, “You come, is true?”)

Related terms

• baarot

References

• “baar” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

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Crimean Gothic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *barną (“child”); compare Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌽 (barn). The form baar may be a misprint for barn. Alternatively, -rn may have been simplified to -r, as it was in some dialects of High German; compare Luxembourgish Kär, Dar.

Noun

baar

1. child or boy
   • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:

     Baar. Puer.

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Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Persian بهار‎ (bahâr).

Noun

baar

1. spring

Declension

Declension of baar

	singular	plural
absolute	baar	baarlar
definite accusative	baarnı	baarlarnı
dative	baarğa	baarlarğa
locative	baarda	baarlarda
ablative	baardan	baarlardan
definite genitive	baarnıñ	baarlarnıñ

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baːr/

• baar

  (file)

• Hyphenation: baar
• Rhymes: -aːr

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bâre, from Old Dutch bier, from Proto-West Germanic *bērō, from Proto-Germanic *bērō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Beere (“stretcher, bier”), English bier, German Bahre (“bier, stretcher”).

Noun

baar f (plural baren, diminutive baartje n)

1. A bier, a stretcher, a litter; a device used to carry someone or something, especially wounded or dead people.

   Synonym: draagbaar

2. A bed on which a dead person is displayed before he is buried.
   • 1922, Albert Verwey, De weg van het licht, De Gerichte Wil

     Wanneer ik stierf en zij die mij beminden / Rondom mijn baar staan en de een d’andre vraagt:

     When I died and those that loved me / stand around my dead bed and one asks the other:

   Synonyms: lijkbaar, lijkbed

Derived terms

• baarkleed
• draagbaar
• lijkbaar
• opbaren
• rosbaar

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch bare, from Old French barre.

Noun

baar f (plural baren, diminutive baartje n)

1. A bar, an ingot (of gold or another metal).
2. (obsolete) A bar, a beam.

   Synonyms: boom, staaf

Derived terms

• goudbaar

Etymology 3

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

Noun

baar f (plural baren, diminutive baartje n)

1. (poetic, archaic, mostly used in the plural) A wave.
   • 1716, H.K. Poot, Mengeldichten, Die spade komt ook.

     Ulisses zworf weleer op wilde woeste baren,/ Minerves wreeden wrok en wrange wraek ten doel,

     Ulisses roamed on wild violent waves, towards Minerva’s cruel anger and bitter revenge

   Synonym: golf

Etymology 4

Related to bar (“bare”).

Adjective

baar (not comparable)

1. Said of money; cash.
   • Ik heb geen baar geld bij me.

     I have no cash on me.

Inflection

Inflection of baar
uninflected	baar
inflected	bare
comparative	—
		positive
predicative/adverbial		baar
indefinite	m./f. sing.	bare
	n. sing.	baar
	plural	bare
definite		bare
partitive		baars

Etymology 5

Borrowed from Malay baru.

Noun

baar m (plural baren, diminutive baartje n)

1. (historical, nautical or relating to Indonesia, Netherlands) greenhorn, newbie
   • 1930 August 3, Si Omong, "Baren en... baren.", Algemeen Handelsblad, ochtendblad, page 12.

     Een leergierige baar wil gedurende het eerste etmaal van zijn verblijf op Java alles zien, alles weten, alles proeven.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

   • 1932, Uit de eerste marinejaren van Dirk Jan, Batteljee & Terpstra, pages 48 & 49.

     Bovendien werden de baren daardoor in korten tijd scheeps- en »marine«-wijs gemaakt, leerden de taal en de gebruiken van hun nieuwe wereld en praatten in weinig tijds mee als de besten over »snerfnimf« en »galjoenkapitein«, over »pluimgraaf« en »waschteef« zowel als over »Droge«, »Puist« en »Poen«, over »Clovis« en »Bakkertje« en over de »fielten« en »bokken« hunner dagelijksche omgeving.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

Related terms

• orang-baar

Etymology 6

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

baar

1. first-person singular present indicative of baren
2. imperative of baren

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Estonian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b̥ˈɑːr/

Noun

baar (genitive baari, partitive baari)

1. bar, public house

Inflection

Declension of baar (type riik)

	singular	plural
nominative	baar	baarid
genitive	baari	baaride
partitive	baari	baare / baarisid
illative	baari / baarisse	baaridesse
inessive	baaris	baarides
elative	baarist	baaridest
allative	baarile	baaridele
adessive	baaril	baaridel
ablative	baarilt	baaridelt
translative	baariks	baarideks
terminative	baarini	baarideni
essive	baarina	baaridena
abessive	baarita	baarideta
comitative	baariga	baaridega

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Manx

Noun

baar m (genitive singular baar, plural baaryn)

1. crop, yield

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
baar	vaar	maar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German bar, English bare.

Adjective

baar

1. bare
2. naked