bar

See also: Bar and Appendix:Variations of "bar"

㍴	U+3374, ㍴ SQUARE BAR

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

(UK) IPA^(key): /bɑː/
(US) enPR: bär, IPA^(key): /bɑɹ/, [bɑɹ], [bɑ˞]
Audio (US)
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Audio (UK)
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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. Doublet of barre. Perhaps from Frankish *bara (“bar, beam, barrier, fence”), from Proto-Germanic *barō (“beam, bar, barrier”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to strike, pierce”).

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”) and бор (bor), Ancient Greek φάρος (pháros, “piece of land, furrow, marker, beacon, lighthouse”). May well have been reinforced by existing Old English term from the same root.

Noun[edit]

bar (countable and uncountable, plural bars)

Two steel bars.

A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood 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 ¹⁄₄ 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 expecting a carload of bar tomorrow.
A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
bar of chocolate

bar of soap
A broad shaft, or band, or stripe.
a bar of light

a bar of colour
A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
(typography) Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
Hyponyms: pipe, strikethrough
(mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
(physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is negative (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house.
Synonyms: barroom, ginshop, pub (British), public house, tavern; see also Thesaurus:pub

The street was lined with all-night bars.
The counter of such premises, sometimes called a wet bar.
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.
(by extension, in combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar etc.) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.
An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
a burger bar

a local fish bar
An establishment offering cosmetic services.
a nail bar; a brow bar
An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
Synonyms: ban, prohibition

The club has lifted its bar on women members.
Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
- 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, OCLC 228724395, Act V, page 83:
  Muſt I new bars to my own joy create?
- 2013, Terence Dillon, A Long Way Home (page 184)
  Mr Harding could look back on his initial judgement of Paul's talent with great satisfaction while Paul could reflect that to be Irish was not necessarily a bar to progress.
(programming, 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.
(Britain, Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
(Britain, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay
(US, law) "the Bar" or "the bar" The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
He's studying hard to pass the Bar this time; he's failed it twice before.
(law, metonymically, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others.
He was called to the bar, he became a barrister.
(telecommunications, electronics) One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
I don't have any bars in the middle of this desert.
(music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
(music) One of those musical sections.
Synonym: measure
(sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault
(figuratively) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
(soccer, most codes) The crossbar.
- 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC‎^[1]:
  Composed play then saw Sam Ricketts nutmeg Ashley Cole before Taylor whipped a fine curling effort over Petr Cech's bar.
(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.
(geography, 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.
A city gate, in some British place names.
Potter's Bar
(mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
(mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
(architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
(farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
(farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.

Derived terms[edit]

Terms derived from bar (noun)

Descendants[edit]

Arabic: بَار‎ m (bār)
Armenian: բար (bar)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 吧 (bā)
Danish: bar c
Dutch: bar m
Georgian: ბარი (bari)
German: Bar f
Greek: μπαρ n (bar)
Hungarian: bár
Icelandic: bar m
Irish: beár m

Italian: bar m
Japanese: バー (bā)
Korean: 바 (ba)
Polish: bar m
Portuguese: bar
Russian: бар m (bar)
Serbo-Croatian: бар m, bar m
Spanish: bar m
Swedish: bar c
Thai: บาร์ (baa)

Translations[edit]

See bar/translations § Etymology 1.

Suffix[edit]

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bar

(grammar, X-bar theory) Pronunciation of ¯, a symbol indicating an X-bar.

References[edit]

The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [2]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English barren, from Old French barrer,^[1] from Medieval Latin barrare (“to bar”), from the noun. Cognate Occitan barrar, Spanish barrar, Portuguese barrar.

Preposition properly imperative of the verb. Compare barring.

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."
Our way was barred by a huge rockfall.
(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 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], OCLC 1042815524, part I:
  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.

Synonyms[edit]

(obstruct): block, hinder, obstruct
(prohibit): ban, interdict, prohibit
(lock or bolt with a bar):
See also Thesaurus:hinder

Derived terms[edit]

outbar
unbar

Translations[edit]

See bar/translations § Verb.

Preposition[edit]

bar

Except, other than, besides.
He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife.
- 2019 October, Philip Sherratt, “Midland Main Line upgrade presses on”, in Modern Railways, page 62:
  These see the overhead wires installed on all bar the slow lines between Bedford and Wellingborough by next May, with the remaining section completed by August, when the full programme is due to be completed.
(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]

(except): apart from, barring, except for, excluding, other than, save; see also Thesaurus:except

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

with the exception of — see except

References[edit]

^ “barren, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2018, retrieved 31 October 2019.

William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914) , “bar”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume I (A–C), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371, page 446.

Etymology 3[edit]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”), coined circa 1900.

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Bar (unit)

Wikipedia

Noun[edit]

bar (plural bars)

A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.

Synonyms[edit]

㍴

Derived terms[edit]

Afar[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /bʌɾ/

Noun[edit]

bar m (plural baritté or barwá f)

night

References[edit]

Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[3], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Afrikaans[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Dutch bar.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): [bɑɾ]

Adjective[edit]

bar (attributive barre, comparative barder, superlative barste)

barren

References[edit]

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

Albanian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Proto-Albanian *bara, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-, compare Ancient Greek φάρμακον (phármakon, “drug, medicine”), Lithuanian 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.^[2]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /baɾ/

Noun[edit]

bar m (indefinite plural barëra, definite singular bari, definite plural barërat)

grass
(figuratively) tasteless food

Declension[edit]

declension of bar

	indefinite forms (trajta të pashquara)		definite forms (trajta të shquara)
	singular (numri njëjës)	plural (numri shumës)	singular (numri njëjës)	plural (numri shumës)
nominative (emërore)	bar	barëra	bari	barërat
accusative (kallëzore)	bar	barëra	barin	barërat
genitive (gjinore) (i/e/të/së)	bari	barërave	barit	barëravet
dative (dhanore)	bari	barërave	barit	barëravet
ablative (rrjedhore)	bari	barërash	barit	barëravet

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

bar m (indefinite plural barna, definite singular bari, definite plural barnat)

medicine, medication, medicinal plant
(figuratively, colloquial) cure, palliative, solution
(figuratively, colloquial) marijuana, likely a calque from English or French

Declension[edit]

declension of bar

	indefinite forms (trajta të pashquara)		definite forms (trajta të shquara)
	singular (numri njëjës)	plural (numri shumës)	singular (numri njëjës)	plural (numri shumës)
nominative (emërore)	bar	barna	bari	barnat
accusative (kallëzore)	bar	barna	barin	barnat
genitive (gjinore) (i/e/të/së)	bari	barnave	barit	barnavet
dative (dhanore)	bari	barnave	barit	barnavet
ablative (rrjedhore)	bari	barnash	barit	barnavet

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

^ D.Q. Adams, "Heal: *bher-", in Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture (London: Fitzroy-Dearborn, 1997), 262.
^ Orel, Vladimir (1998) , “bar”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Cologne: Brill, →ISBN, page 17

Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French barre

Noun[edit]

bar m (plural bars)

bar (establishment)
bar (unit of measure)

Cimbrian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

biar (Luserna)

Etymology[edit]

From Middle High German wir, from Old High German wir, from Proto-West Germanic *wiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *wīz. Cognate with German wir, English we.

Pronoun[edit]

bar

(Sette Comuni) we
Synonym: bandare

Bar zeinan bèllase. ― We are Italians.

Bar zeinda. ― We are here.

Bar habanze galummet. ― We took them.

Inflection[edit]

Cimbrian personal pronouns

		nominative	accusative	dative
1st person singular		ich	mich	miar
2nd person singular	familiar	du	dich	diar
2nd person singular	polite	iart	ach	òich
3rd person singular	m	èar, ar	in, en	iime
	f	zi, ze		iar
	n	es, is	es, 's	iime
1st person plural		bar, bandare	zich	izandarn
2nd person plural		iart, artandare, iart-andare	òich, ach	ogandarn
3rd person plural		ze, zòi, zandare	zich	innandarn

References[edit]

“bar” 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

Czech[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /bar/

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from English bar.^[1]

Noun[edit]

bar m

bar (a business selling beverages)
bar (the counter of such a premises)
bar (a cabinet used to store alcoholic drinks in a private house or a hotel room)

Declension[edit]

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	bar	bary
genitive	baru	barů
dative	baru	barům
accusative	bar	bary
vocative	bare	bary
locative	baru	barech
instrumental	barem	bary

Derived terms[edit]

barový m

Related terms[edit]

barman m

Etymology 2[edit]

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

Bar (jednotka)

Wikipedia ^cs

Borrowing from modern European languages, originally coined based on Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).^[2]

Noun[edit]

bar m

bar, a non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals

Declension[edit]

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	bar	bary
genitive	baru	barů
dative	baru	barům
accusative	bar	bary
vocative	bare	bary
locative	baru	barech
instrumental	barem	bary

References[edit]

^ "bar¹" in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, electronic version, Leda, 2007
^ "bar²" in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, electronic version, Leda, 2007

Dalmatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin bibere, present active infinitive of bibō. Compare Italian bere, Romanian bea.

Verb[edit]

bar (second-person plural present baite)

to drink

Danish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ˈbaːˀr/, [ˈb̥ɑˀ]
Rhymes: -aːˀr

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Danish bar, Old West Norse berr (with ʀ-umlaut), from Proto-Germanic *bazaz, cognate with English bare, German bar.

Adjective[edit]

bar (neuter bart, plural and definite singular attributive bare)

bare, naked
sheer, pure

Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed 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]

Declension of bar

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bar	baren	barer	barerne
genitive	bars	barens	barers	barernes

Etymology 3[edit]

From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).

Noun[edit]

bar c (singular definite baren, plural indefinite bar)

bar (unit of pressure)

Inflection[edit]

Declension of bar

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bar	baren	bar	barene
genitive	bars	barens	bars	barenes

Etymology 4[edit]

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb[edit]

bar

past tense of bære

Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /bɑr/
Hyphenation: bar
Rhymes: -ɑr

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from English bar.

Noun[edit]

bar m (plural bars, diminutive barretje n)

A bar, counter, drink cabinet.
A bar, pub.

Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old French barhaine, probably of Germanic origin, possibly Frankish *baʀ (“bare; barren”). Cognate with English barren.

Adjective[edit]

bar (comparative barder, superlative barst)

harsh, tough (used mainly with koude (“cold”), or omstandigheden (“conditions”))
barren, inhospitable, bare
crude, grim, unfriendly

Inflection[edit]

Inflection of bar
uninflected	bar
inflected	barre
comparative	barder
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		bar	barder	het barst het barste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	barre	bardere	barste
	n. sing.	bar	barder	barste
	plural	barre	bardere	barste
definite		barre	bardere	barste
partitive		bars	barders	—

Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

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

Adverb[edit]

bar

extremely (only in a negative sense)

Etymology 4[edit]

From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”), coined c. 1900. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun[edit]

bar

bar (a unit of pressure, equal to 100,000 pascals)

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

isobaar

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

he, it bore, carried:: 1st and 3rd person singular past tense form of bera (“to bear, to carry”)

Conjugation[edit]

Conjugation of bera (group v-54)
infinitive	bera
supine	borið
participle (a26)¹	berandi	borin
	present	past
first singular	beri	bar
second singular	bert	bart
third singular	ber	bar
plural	bera	bóru
	imperative
singular	ber!
plural	berið!
¹Only the past participle being declined.

Derived terms[edit]

hetta bar ikki til (“this wasn’t possible”)

French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /baʁ/
audio
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Rhymes: -aʁ

Etymology 1[edit]

From English bar

Noun[edit]

bar m (plural bars)

A bar (establishment)
A bar (counter)

Etymology 2[edit]

Of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *barsaz (“perch”).

Noun[edit]

bar m (plural bars)

A bass (fish)

Galician[edit]

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Bar (unidade)

Wikipedia

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from English bar.

Noun[edit]

bar m (plural bares)

bar, coffee shop, café, pub (an establishment where refreshments and alcohol drinks are served)

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from English bar and this from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).

Noun[edit]

bar m (plural bares)

bar (unit of pressure)

German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle High German and Old High German bar.

Pronunciation[edit]

audio
(file)
Rhymes: -aːɐ̯

Adjective[edit]

bar (not comparable)

bare

Declension[edit]

Declension of bar

number & gender		singular			plural
number & gender		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		er ist bar	sie ist bar	es ist bar	sie sind bar
strong declension (without article)	nominative	barer	bare	bares	bare
	genitive	baren	barer	baren	barer
	dative	barem	barer	barem	baren
	accusative	baren	bare	bares	bare
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der bare	die bare	das bare	die baren
	genitive	des baren	der baren	des baren	der baren
	dative	dem baren	der baren	dem baren	den baren
	accusative	den baren	die bare	das bare	die baren
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein barer	eine bare	ein bares	(keine) baren
	genitive	eines baren	einer baren	eines baren	(keiner) baren
	dative	einem baren	einer baren	einem baren	(keinen) baren
	accusative	einen baren	eine bare	ein bares	(keine) baren

Adverb[edit]

bar

in cash
pure

Preposition[edit]

bar

(+genitive) without

Synonyms[edit]

ohne

Gothic[edit]

Romanization[edit]

bar

Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐍂

Icelandic[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /paːr/
Rhymes: -aːr

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from English bar (1), from Old French barre.

Noun[edit]

bar m (genitive singular bars, nominative 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]

declension of bar

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
m-s2	singular		plural
nominative	bar	barinn	barir	barirnir
accusative	bar	barinn	bari	barina
dative	bar	barnum	börum	börunum
genitive	bars	barsins	bara	baranna

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from English bar (2), from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).

Noun[edit]

bar n (genitive singular bars, nominative plural bör)

bar (unit of pressure)

Declension[edit]

declension of bar

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
n-s	singular		plural
nominative	bar	barið	bör	börin
accusative	bar	barið	bör	börin
dative	bari	barinu	börum	börunum
genitive	bars	barsins	bara	baranna

Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English bar, from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).

Noun[edit]

bar m (genitive singular bair, nominative plural bair)

bar (unit of pressure)

Declension[edit]

Declension of bar

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bar	bair
Vocative	a bhair	a bhara
Genitive	bair	bar
Dative	bar	bair

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an bar	na bair
Genitive	an bhair	na mbar
Dative	leis an mbar don bhar	leis na bair

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bar	bhar	mbar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English bar.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /bar/

Noun[edit]

bar m (plural bar)

bar (place serving drinks)
C'è un bar qui vicino? ― Is there a bar nearby?
café
bar (unit of pressure)

Derived terms[edit]

barista

Latvian[edit]

Verb[edit]

bar

2nd person singular present indicative form of bārt
3rd person singular present indicative form of bārt
3rd person plural present indicative form of bārt
2nd person singular imperative form of bārt
(with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of bārt
(with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of bārt

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

bar

(Northern) Alternative form of bor

Northern Kurdish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Related to Persian ‎ (bâr).

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /bɑːɾ/
Hyphenation: bar
Rhymes: -ɑːɾ

Noun[edit]

bar m

burden (a heavy load)

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

bar

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Norse berr and Old Danish bar.

Adjective[edit]

bar (neuter singular bart, definite singular and plural bare, comparative barere, indefinite superlative barest, definite superlative bareste)

bare, naked
- 2014, "Ikke provosèr ham", by Inger Torill Jørgensen, eBokNorden AS →ISBN [4]
  Han kom tettere inn til henne, la armen rundt ryggen hennes og bøyet hodet sitt ned mot hennes bare skulder, kysset den.
  He came closer to her, put his arm around her back and bowed his head down to her bare shoulder, and kissed it.

Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from English bar.

Noun[edit]

bar m (definite singular baren, indefinite plural barer, definite plural barene)

a bar (place where alcohol is served)
a bar (sandbank at the mouth of a river or harbour)

Related terms[edit]

bartender (sense 1)

Etymology 3[edit]

From Old Norse barr.

Noun[edit]

bar n (definite singular baret, uncountable)

the needles of the conifers, twigs and branches of conifers

Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 4[edit]

bar (enhet) on Norwegian Wikipedia

From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).

Noun[edit]

bar m (definite singular baren, indefinite plural bar, definite plural barene)

bar (a non-SI unit of pressure)

Derived terms[edit]

millibar

Etymology 5[edit]

Verb[edit]

bar

simple past of bære

References[edit]

“bar” in The Bokmål Dictionary. (adjective on page 2)
“bar_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
“bar_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
“bar_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
“bar_4” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
“bar_5” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /bɑːr/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1[edit]

Verb[edit]

bar

past tense of bera

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from English bar.

Noun[edit]

bar m (definite singular baren, indefinite plural barar, definite plural barane)

a bar (place where alcohol is served)
a bar (sandbank at the mouth of a river or harbour)

Related terms[edit]

bartender (sense 1)

Etymology 3[edit]

From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”), coined circa 1900.

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

eininga bar

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Noun[edit]

bar m (definite singular baren, indefinite plural barar, definite plural barane)

bar (a non-SI unit of pressure)

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

isobar

Etymology 4[edit]

From Old Norse barr.

Noun[edit]

bar n (definite singular baret, uncountable)

the needles of the conifers, twigs and branches of conifers
- 1860, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, "Vaaren":
  Derfor eg fann millom Bjørkar og Bar i Vaaren ei Gaata […]
  Therefore I found, between the birches and conifers, in spring a riddle […]

Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 5[edit]

Adjective[edit]

bar (masculine and feminine bar, neuter bart, definite singular and plural bare, comparative barare, indefinite superlative barast, definite superlative baraste)

form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by berr
form removed with the spelling reform of 1938; superseded by berr

References[edit]

“bar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Germanic *bairaz.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /bɑːr/

Noun[edit]

bār m

boar

Declension[edit]

Declension of bar (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	bār	bāras
accusative	bār	bāras
genitive	bāres	bāra
dative	bāre	bārum

Old High German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz, whence also Old English bær, Old Norse berr.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /bar/

Adjective[edit]

bar

bare

Descendants[edit]

Middle High German: bar
- German: bar, baar
- Yiddish: פּאַרעוו‎ (parev)
  - → English: parev, pareve

Old Norse[edit]

Verb[edit]

bar

first/third-person singular past indicative active of bera

Old Saxon[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz, whence also Old English bær, Old Norse berr.

Adjective[edit]

bār

bare

Declension[edit]

Positive forms of bār

Strong declension
gender	masculine		feminine		neuter
case	singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural
nominative	bār	bāre, bāra	bār	bāra	bār	bār, bāra
accusative	bāran, bāren	bāra, bāre	bāra	bāra	bār	bār, bāra
genitive	bāres, bāras	bāraro, bāroro, bārero	bārara, bāraro	bāraro, bāroro, bārero	bāres, bāras	bāraro, bāroro, bārero
dative	bārumu, bārum, bārun, bārun, bāron, bāren, bāran	bārun, bāron, bārum	bāraro, bāraru, bārara	bārun, bāron	bārumu, bārum, bārun, bārun, bāron, bāren, bāran	bārun, bāron, bārum
Weak declension
gender	masculine		feminine		neuter
case	singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural
nominative	bāro, bāra	bāron, bārun	bāra, bāre	bāron, bārun, bāran	bāra, bāre	bāron, bārun
accusative	bāron, bāran	bāron, bārun	bārun, bāron, bāran	bāron, bārun, bāran	bāra, bāre	bāron, bārun
genitive	bāren, bāran	bārono, bāreno	bārun, bāran, bāren	bārono	bāren, bāran	bārono, bāreno
dative	bāron, bāren, bāran	bāron, bārun	bārun, bāran	bāron, bārun	bāron, bāren, bāran	bāron, bārun

Descendants[edit]

Middle Low German: bâr
- German Low German: baar

Old Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse *barr (Old West Norse berr), from Proto-Germanic *bazaz.

Adjective[edit]

bar

bare

Declension[edit]

Declension of bar (strong)

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	bar	bar	bart
accusative	baran	bara	bart
dative	barum, -om	barri, -re	baru, -o
genitive	bars	barrar	bars
plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	barir, -e(r)	barar	bar
accusative	bara	barar	bar
dative	barum, -om	barum, -om	barum, -om
genitive	barra	barra	barra

Declension of bar (weak)

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	bari, -e	bara	bara
accusative	bara	baru, -o	bara
dative	bara	baru, -o	bara
genitive	bara	baru, -o	bara
plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	baru, -o	baru, -o	baru, -o
accusative	baru, -o	baru, -o	baru, -o
dative	baru, -o	baru, -o	baru, -o
genitive	baru, -o	baru, -o	baru, -o

Descendants[edit]

Swedish: bar

Polish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /bar/
audio
(file)

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from English bar.

Noun[edit]

bar m inan

bar, luncheon bar, buffet
bar (a long table or counter where drinks are served)

Declension[edit]

declension of bar

	singular	plural
nominative	bar	bary
genitive	baru	barów
dative	barowi	barom
accusative	bar	bary
instrumental	barem	barami
locative	barze	barach
vocative	barze	bary

Derived terms[edit]

barowy

Related terms[edit]

barman

Etymology 2[edit]

From Latin barium.

Noun[edit]

Chemical element
Ba
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Next: lantan (La)

bar m inan

barium

Declension[edit]

declension of bar

	singular
nominative	bar
genitive	baru
dative	barowi
accusative	bar
instrumental	barem
locative	barze
vocative	barze

Etymology 3[edit]

From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”), probably borrowed via science literature in another European language.

Noun[edit]

bar m inan

bar (unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals)

Declension[edit]

declension of bar

	singular	plural
nominative	bar	bary
genitive	bara	barów
dative	barowi	barom
accusative	bar	bary
instrumental	barem	barami
locative	barze	barach
vocative	barze	bary

Portuguese[edit]

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

bar

Wikipedia ^pt

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

Bar (estabelecimento)

Wikipedia ^pt

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

Bar (unidade)

Wikipedia ^pt

Pronunciation[edit]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾ/
(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbaʁ/
- (Caipira) IPA^(key): [ˈbaɹ], [ˈbaɻ]
- (South Brazil) IPA^(key): [ˈbaɻ], [ˈbaɾ]
- (Carioca) IPA^(key): [ˈbaχ]
- (Nordestino) IPA^(key): [ˈbah]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from English bar.

Noun[edit]

bar m (plural bares)

pub; bar (establishment that serves alcoholic beverages primarily)

Etymology 2[edit]

Originally from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).

Noun[edit]

bar m (plural bars)

bar (unit of pressure)

Romani[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Noun[edit]

bar f (plural bara)

garden
fence

Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

barr

Noun[edit]

bar m (plural bar)

stone

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French bar.

Noun[edit]

bar m (plural bari)

bar

Declension[edit]

Declension of bar

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) bar	barul	(niște) bari	barii
genitive/dative	(unui) bar	barului	(unor) bari	barilor
vocative	barule		barilor

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from English bar.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /bâːr/.

Noun[edit]

bȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ба̑р)

public house, bar

Declension[edit]

Declension of bar

	singular	plural
nominative	bȃr	bȁrovi
genitive	bara	barova
dative	baru	barovima
accusative	bar	barove
vocative	bare	barovi
locative	baru	barovima
instrumental	barom	barovima

Etymology 2[edit]

From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”), coined circa 1900.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /bâːr/

Noun[edit]

bȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ба̑р)

bar (unit of pressure)

Declension[edit]

Declension of bar

	singular	plural
nominative	bȃr	bȃri
genitive	bara	bara
dative	baru	barima
accusative	bar	bave
vocative	baru	bari
locative	baru	barima
instrumental	barom	barima

Etymology 3[edit]

Clipping of bàrem.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /bâr/

Adverb[edit]

bȁr (Cyrillic spelling ба̏р)

at least

Etymology 4[edit]

From Proto-Slavic *bъrъ.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /bâːr/

Noun[edit]

bȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ба̑р) (regional)

foxtail millet (Setaria italica)
Synonym: mȕhār
pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum)
Synonyms: kòšćan, bìsērno prȍso

Declension[edit]

Declension of bar

	singular
nominative	bar
genitive	bara
dative	baru
accusative	bar
vocative	bare
locative	baru
instrumental	barom

References[edit]

“bar” in Hrvatski jezični portal
“bar” in Hrvatski jezični portal
“bar” in Hrvatski jezični portal
“bar” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Somali[edit]

Verb[edit]

bar

Alternative spelling of baro

Spanish[edit]

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

bar

Wikipedia ^es

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

bar (unidad de presión)

Wikipedia ^es

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾ/, [ˈbaɾ]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from English bar. Doublet of barra.

Noun[edit]

bar m (plural bares)

bar, coffee shop, café, pub (an establishment where refreshments and alcohol drinks are served)

Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from English bar and this from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).

Noun[edit]

bar m (plural bares)

bar (unit of pressure)

Swedish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): /bɑːr/
audio
(file)

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Swedish bar, from Old Norse *barr (Old West Norse berr), from Proto-Germanic *bazaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰos- (“bare, barefoot”). Cognate with English bare. See Old English bær.^[1]

Adjective[edit]

bar (comparative barare, superlative barast)

bare, uncovered; not covered by e.g. clothes (about people), fur (about certain animals) or a snow cover (about the ground)

Declension[edit]

Inflection of bar
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative²
Common singular	bar	barare	barast
Neuter singular	bart	barare	barast
Plural	bara	barare	barast
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular¹	bare	barare	baraste
All	bara	barare	baraste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.

Derived terms[edit]

barmark

Etymology 2[edit]

See bära.

Verb[edit]

bar

past tense of bära.

Etymology 3[edit]

Borrowed from English bar.^[1]

Noun[edit]

bar c

a bar, pub; place where mainly alcoholic drinks are served.
a bar, a bar counter

Declension[edit]

Declension of bar
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	bar	baren	barer	barerna
Genitive	bars	barens	barers	barernas

Etymology 4[edit]

Originally from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).

Noun[edit]

bar c

A bar; a unit of pressure

References[edit]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 bar in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams[edit]

bra

Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Armenian պար (par, “dance”).

Noun[edit]

bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)

(dialectal) dance, round dance

Declension[edit]

Inflection
Nominative	bar
Definite accusative	barı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bar	barlar
Definite accusative	barı	barları
Dative	bara	barlara
Locative	barda	barlarda
Ablative	bardan	barlardan
Genitive	barın	barların

References[edit]

Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979) , “պար”, in Lua error: not enough memory [Lua error: not enough memory] (in Lua error: not enough memory), 2nd edition, reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
Lua error: not enough memory”, in Lua error: not enough memory [Lua error: not enough memory] (in Lua error: not enough memory), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.Lua error: not enough memory

Wakhi[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From *dvar, related to Lua error: not enough memory.

Noun[edit]

Lua error: not enough memory

door

Zazaki[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Related to Lua error: not enough memory.

Noun[edit]

Lua error: not enough memory

load
burden

[1] “barren, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2018, retrieved 31 October 2019.

[2] D.Q. Adams, "Heal: *bher-", in Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture (London: Fitzroy-Dearborn, 1997), 262.

[3] Orel, Vladimir (1998) , “bar”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Cologne: Brill, →ISBN, page 17

[4] "bar¹" in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, electronic version, Leda, 2007

[5] "bar²" in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, electronic version, Leda, 2007

[Hellquist-6] 1.0 ^1.1 bar in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

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