bar

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

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɑː/
• (US) enPR: bär, IPA^(key): /bɑɹ/, [bɑɹ], [bɑ˞]

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
• Homophones: baa, bah (in some pronunciations)

Etymology 1

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”). May well have been reinforced by existing Old English term from the same root.

Noun

bar (countable and uncountable, plural bars)

Two steel bars.

1. 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.

2. (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 expecting a carload of bar tomorrow.

3. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.

   bar of chocolate

   bar of soap

4. A broad shaft, or band, or stripe.

   a bar of light; a bar of colour

5. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
6. A diacritical mark that consists of a line drawn through a grapheme. (For example, turning A into Ⱥ.)
7. 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.

8. The counter of such a premises.

   Step up to the bar and order a drink.

9. A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
10. In combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar, etc., a premises or counter serving non-alcoholic drinks.
11. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.

    The club has lifted its bar on women members.

12. Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
    • Dryden

      Must I new bars to my own joy create?

13. (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.

14. (UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay
15. (law, "the Bar", "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.

16. (law, "the Bar", "the bar") A collective term for lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others.
17. (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
18. (music) One of those musical sections.
19. (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault
20. (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.

21. (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
22. An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act
23. A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
24. (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).
25. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.
26. 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.

27. A city gate, in some British place names.

    Potter's Bar

28. (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
29. (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
30. (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
31. (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.
32. (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.

Synonyms

• (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

derived terms

admitted to the bar anti-roll bar at the bar bar billiards bar chart bar code Bar Council barfly barful bar graph bar iron barkeep barkeeper barline bar lunch bar magnet barmaid barman bar meal bar of chocolate bar of soap

bar parlour barperson bar room barring barrister bar sinister bar steward bartender bar wood bastard bar behind bars behind the bar bus bar buttery bar called to the bar called within the bar cash bar chocolate bar coffee bar colour bar crowbar crush bar debar disbar, disbarment

double bar dragbar drawbar embar fire bar five bar full bar gay bar handlebar horizontal bar hosted bar inner bar juice bar kangaroo bar karaoke bar lounge bar luncheon bar milk bar minibar no host bar open bar outer bar parallel bars public bar raise the bar rebar rollbar

roo bar saddle bar saloon bar sandbar sidebar singles bar snack bar space bar splinter bar T-bar toll bar tommy bar toolbar torsion bar towbar unbar wet bar window bar wine bar wire bar

Translations

solid object with uniform cross-section

• Bulgarian: пръчка (bg) (prǎčka)
• Dutch: stang (nl) m, staaf (nl) f, baar (nl) f, blok (nl) n
• Esperanto: stango
• Finnish: palkki (fi), tanko (fi)
• French: barre (fr) f
• German: Block (de) m, Barren (de) m, Stange (de) f
• Greek: ράβδος (el) f (rávdos), πλάκα (el) n (pláka), πλακίδιο (el) n (plakídio), κομμάτι (el) n (kommáti)
• Hebrew: סורג m (sorág)
• Hungarian: rúd (hu)
• Icelandic: stöng (is) f
• Interlingua: barra

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bjelke (no) m, bom (no) m

• Persian: میله (fa) (mile)
• Portuguese: barra (pt) f
• Russian: прут m (prut), сте́ржень m (stérženʹ), брус m (brus)
• Scottish Gaelic: gàd m
• Serbo-Croatian: озиб m, ozib
• Slovene: drog (sl) m
• Spanish: barra (es) f
• Swedish: ribba, stång (sv) c, bom (sv) c
• Telugu: కడ్డీ (te) (kaḍḍī)

metallurgy: solid object of round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular section

• Dutch: staaf (nl) f, baar (nl) f, stang (nl) m
• Finnish: palkki (fi), tanko (fi)
• German: Barren (de) m
• Greek: ράβδος (el) f (rávdos)
• Interlingua: barra
• Latvian: stienis m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bjelke (no) m

• Persian: میله (fa) (mile)
• Portuguese: barra (pt) f
• Russian: прут m (prut), сте́ржень m (stérženʹ), брус m (brus)
• Scottish Gaelic: gàd m
• Spanish: barra (es) f
• Swedish: stång (sv) c
• Tamil: பாளம் (ta) (pāḷam)

cuboid piece of any commodity

• Dutch: blok (nl) n, stuk (nl) n, reep (nl) f (chocolate)
• Finnish: patukka (chocolate, candy), pala (fi) (soap, etc.), harkko (fi) (metal, concrete)
• French: barre (fr) f
• German: Block (de) m, Stück (de) n (of soap), Tafel (de) f (of chocolate)
• Greek: ράβδος (el) f (rávdos), πλάκα (el) n (pláka), πλακίδιο (el) n (plakídio)

• Manx: barr m
• Norwegian: -bar (no) m
• Portuguese: barra (pt) f
• Russian: брусо́к m (brusók), пли́тка f (plítka)
• Scottish Gaelic: gàd m

long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder

• Bulgarian: ивица (bg) (ivica)
• Dutch: blok (nl) n
• Finnish: pylväs (fi), palkki (fi), viiva (fi)
• German: Balken (de) m, Strich (de) m, Streifen (de) m

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: felt (no) n, linje (no) m, f

• Scottish Gaelic: bàr m
• Swedish: stång (sv) c

business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages

• Arabic: خانة f (khaana), بار m (bar)
• Armenian: բար (bar)
• Belarusian: бар m (bar), піўна́я f (piŭnája)
• Bulgarian: бар (bar)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 酒吧 (zh) (jiǔbā), 酒館 (zh), 酒馆 (zh) (jiǔguǎn)

• Czech: bar (cs) m
• Danish: bar (da) c
• Dutch: bar (nl) m, café (nl) n, taveerne m
• Estonian: baar
• Faroese: ølstova f, ølklubbi m, barr f, krógv f, drykkjustova f
• Finnish: baari (fi), kapakka (fi) (colloquial), anniskelupaikka (law)
• French: bar (fr) m
• Georgian: ბარი (bari)
• German: Bar (de) f, Kneipe (de) f, Austrian: Beisl n
• Greek: μπαρ (el) n (bar), καπηλειό (el) n (kapileió), ποτοπωλείο (el) n (potopoleío)
• Hebrew: באר (he) m (bar)
• Hungarian: bár (hu), kocsma (hu)
• Icelandic: bar (is) m, krá (is) f, ölstofa f, pöbb m (informal)
• Interlingua: bar
• Italian: bar (it) m

• Japanese: バー (bā), 居酒屋 (いざかや, izakaya), パブ (pabu)
• Korean: 술집 (ko) (suljip), 바 (ko) (ba)
• Latin: oecus potorius m
• Latvian: bārs m, krogs m
• Lojban: barja (jbo)
• Mongolian: баар (baar)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bar (no) m, drikkested n, kneipe m, f, bule (no) m, f

• Persian: بار (fa) (bâr)
• Polish: bar (pl) m
• Portuguese: bar (pt) m
• Russian: бар (ru) m (bar), пивна́я (ru) f (pivnája), каба́к (ru) m (kabák)
• Scottish Gaelic: bàr m
• Slovak: bar m
• Spanish: bar (es) m
• Swedish: bar (sv) c, pub (sv) c, krog (sv) c
• Turkish: bar (tr), meyhane (tr)
• Tuvan: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: бар (uk) m (bar), пивна́ f (pyvná), каба́к (uk) m (kabák), кна́йпа f (knájpa), пивни́ця f (pyvnýcja)
• Vietnamese: quán rượu

counter of such a premises

• Armenian: բար (bar)
• Bulgarian: бар (bar)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吧台 (zh) (bātái)

• Dutch: bar (nl) m, toog (nl) m, tapkast f
• Esperanto: bufedo
• Faroese: barr f, barrskiva f
• Finnish: baaritiski, baari (fi), tiski (fi)

• French: comptoir (fr) m, zinc (fr) m (informal)
• German: Bar (de) f, Theke (de) f, Tresen (de) m
• Icelandic: bar (is) m
• Italian: bancone m
• Portuguese: balcão (pt) m, bar (pt) m
• Russian: бар (ru) (bar), сто́йка (ru) f (stójka)
• Scottish Gaelic: bàr m
• Spanish: barra (es) f
• Swedish: bar (sv) c, disk (sv) c

closet containing alcoholic beverages in a private house or a hotel room

• Armenian: բար (bar)
• Dutch: bar (nl) m
• Estonian: baarikapp
• Finnish: baarikaappi
• German: Bar (de) f

• Greek: μπαρ (el) n (bar), μπαράκι (el) n (baráki)
• Latvian: bāriņš m
• Persian: بار (fa) (bâr)
• Portuguese: bar (pt) m
• Russian: бар (ru) m (bar)
• Scottish Gaelic: bàr m
• Swedish: bar (sv) c, barskåp n

official order prohibiting some activity

• Dutch: verbod (nl) n, ban (nl)
• Esperanto: malpermeso, prohibicio
• Finnish: kielto (fi)
• German: Verbot (de) n

• Interlingua: prohibition
• Portuguese: proibição (pt) f
• Swedish: förbud (sv) n

computing: a second entity following foo

• Finnish: bee (fi)

collective term for lawyers

• Bulgarian: адвокатура (advokatura)
• Dutch: advocatuur (nl), balie (nl)
• Finnish: lakimieskunta

• Greek: δικηγόροι (el) m pl (dikigóroi)
• Swedish: advokatsamfund n

profession of lawyers

• Belarusian: адвакату́ра f (advakatúra)
• Dutch: advocatuur (nl), orde van advocaten f
• Finnish: lakimieskunta

• Greek: δικηγορία (el) f (dikigoría), ποινικολογία (el) f (poinikología)
• Latin: forum (la) n
• Portuguese: advocacia (pt) f

music: vertical line across a staff

• Bulgarian: тактова черта (taktova čerta)
• Dutch: maatstreep (nl) f
• Finnish: tahtiviiva (fi)
• German: Taktstrich (de) m

• Greek: διαστολή (el) f (diastolí)
• Icelandic: taktstrik n
• Russian: та́ктовая черта́ f (táktovaja čertá), такт m (takt)
• Swedish: taktstreck n

music: section of a staff

• Dutch: maat (nl) m
• Finnish: tahti (fi)
• French: mesure (fr) f

• German: Takt (de) m
• Icelandic: taktur m
• Russian: такт m (takt)
• Swedish: takt (sv) c

soccer: crossbar — see crossbar

nautical: sand formation

• Dutch: zandbank (nl) f
• Finnish: särkkä (fi)
• German: Sandbank (de) f

• Italian: barra (it) f
• Russian: о́тмель f (ótmelʹ), ба́нка f (bánka)
• Scottish Gaelic: bàr m
• Swedish: bank (sv) c, grund (sv) n, sandbank (sv) c

heraldry: one of the ordinaries — see fess

sports: in high jump and pole vault

• Finnish: rima (fi)
• Icelandic: slá (is) f

• Italian: asticella f
• Russian: пла́нка f (plánka)
• Swedish: ribba c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Basque: ^{(please verify)} taberna, ^{(please verify)} ardandegi (5)

See also

• (heraldry): Ordinary on Wikipedia.en.Wikipedia:Ordinary (heraldry)

Verb

bar (third-person singular simple present bars, present participle barring, simple past and past participle barred)

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To prohibit.

   I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred.

3. (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.

   bar the door

4. 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.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• outbar
• unbar

Translations

to obstruct the passage of

• Bulgarian: преграждам (bg) (pregraždam), препречвам (bg) (preprečvam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阻碍 (zh), 阻止 (zh)

• Dutch: blokkeren (nl), versperren (nl)
• Esperanto: bloki
• Finnish: estää (fi), tukkia (fi), sulkea (fi)
• French: bloquer (fr)
• German: blockieren (de), versperren

• Hungarian: keresztbetesz, útját állja
• Interlingua: barrar
• Irish: urchoisc
• Maori: aukati, aukati
• Portuguese: barrar (pt)
• Romanian: bara (ro)
• Spanish: barrar (es)
• Swedish: utesluta (sv), avlysa, spärra
• Turkish: önünü kesmek (tr), sürgülemek (tr), yasaklamak (tr)

to prohibit

• Bulgarian: изключвам (bg) (izključvam), отстранявам (bg) (otstranjavam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 禁止 (zh)

• Dutch: verbieden (nl)
• Esperanto: malpermesi
• Finnish: estää (fi), kieltää (fi)
• French: interdire (fr)
• German: verbieten (de)

• Interlingua: prohibir
• Irish: urchoisc
• Italian: vietare (it)
• Maori: aukati
• Portuguese: proibir (pt)
• Swedish: utesluta (sv), förbjuda (sv)
• Turkish: yasaklamak (tr)

to lock or bolt with a bar

• Bulgarian: пускам резе (puskam reze)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 闩上

• Dutch: blokkeren (nl), barreren, vergrendelen, versperren (nl)
• Esperanto: bari

• Finnish: salvata (fi), teljetä (fi)
• French: barrer (fr)
• German: versperren
• Portuguese: barrar (pt)
• Swedish: regla (sv), spärra
• Turkish: sürgülemek (tr)

Preposition

bar

1. Except, with the exception of.

   He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife.

2. (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

• apart from, barring, except, except for, excluding, other than, save

Derived terms

• bar none
• all over bar the shouting

Translations

with the exception of — see except

References

• The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [1]

Etymology 2

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

Wikipedia

Noun

bar (plural bars)

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

Derived terms

• kilobar
• megabar
• millibar

Related terms

• isobar

Translations

unit of pressure

• Bulgarian: бар (bar)
• Danish: bar (da) c
• Dutch: bar (nl)
• Faroese: bar n
• Finnish: baari (fi)
• French: bar (fr) m

• German: Bar (de) n
• Icelandic: bar (is) n
• Latvian: bārs m
• Norwegian: bar (no) m
• Portuguese: bar (pt) m
• Russian: бар m (bar)
• Slovak: bar m, bary pl
• Swedish: bar (sv) c

Anagrams

• ABR, ARB, bra

External links

• Bar on Wikipedia.en.Wikipedia
• Bar in the 1920 edition of Encyclopedia Americana.

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Afar

Noun

bar

1. night

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Albanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *bara, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (compare Greek φάρμακον (phármakon) ‘drug, medicine’, Lithuanain bùrti ‘to conjure’). 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

• barë (neuter; Tosk)

Noun

bar m (indefinite plural barna, definite singular bari)

1. grass (plant)
2. herb, herbaceous plant
3. (colloquial) spice
4. medicine, medication, medicinal plant
5. (figuratively, colloquial) cure, palliative, solution

Etymology 2

from Proto-Albanian *bara, from *bera 'to carry' (modern bie). More at bie.

Alternative forms

• mbar

Verb

bar

1. to carry (away), bear, endure

Derived terms

• barë
• barrë
• mbars
• mbarsë
• mbaroj

Related terms

• mbar, mbaj, bie

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Cimbrian

Pronoun

bar

1. we; us

Synonyms

• bàndare

References

• “bar” in Umberto Martello Martalar, Alfonso Bellotto, Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Setti Communi vicentini, 1st edition, 1974.

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Czech

Noun

bar m

1. A bar (business selling beverages)

Derived terms

• barový m

Related terms

• barman m

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Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin bibere, present active infinitive of bibō.

Verb

bar

1. to drink

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baːr/, [b̥ɑːˀ]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse berr (“bare”). Compare Old English bær.

Adjective

bar (neuter bart, definite and plural bare)

1. bare, naked
2. sheer, pure

Etymology 2

From English bar.

Noun

bar c (singular definite baren, plural indefinite barer)

1. bar (business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages, counter of such a premises)

Inflection

Inflection of bar

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

Etymology 3

From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”)

Noun

bar c (plural indefinite bar)

1. bar (unit of pressure)

Etymology 4

See bære (“to bear, carry”).

Verb

bar

1. past tense of bære

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑr
• IPA^(key): /bɑr/

Etymology 1

From Borrowing from English bar.

Noun

bar m (plural bars, diminutive barretje n)

1. bar, counter, drink cabinet
2. bar, pub

Derived terms

• bardame, barjuffrouw, barmeid, barmeisje
• barkelner, barman
• barkruk

Etymology 2

Cognate with English barren.

Adjective

bar (comparative barder, superlative barst)

1. harsh, tough (used mainly with koude (cold), or omstandigheden (conditions))
2. barren, inhospitable, bare
3. crude, grim, unfriendly

Declension

Declension of bar

		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	—

Adverb

bar

1. extremely (only in a negative sense)

Etymology 3

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

Noun

bar

1. bar: a unit of pressure, equal to 100,000 pascals

Derived terms

• kilobar
• megabar
• millibar

Related terms

• isobar

References

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

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Faroese

Verb

bar

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

Conjugation

   Conjugation of bera

bera, v-54
number	singular			plural
person	first	second	third	all
Indicative	eg	tú	hann / hon tað	vit, tit, teir / tær / tey tygum
Present	beri	bert	ber	bera
Past	bar	bart	bar	bóru
Imperative		tú		tit
Present	—	ber !	—	berið !
Infinitive	bera
Pres. part.	berandi
Past part. a26	borin
Supine	borið

Derived terms

• hetta bar ikki til - this wasn’t possible

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baʁ/

• audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aʁ

Noun

bar m (plural bars)

1. A bar (establishment)
2. A bar (counter)
3. A bass (fish)

External links

• “bar” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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German

Pronunciation

• audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aːɐ̯

Adjective

bar (not comparable)

1. bare

Declension

Declension of bar

number & gender		singular			plural
		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

bar

1. in cash
2. pure

Preposition

bar

1. without

Synonyms

• ohne

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Gothic

Romanization

bar

1. Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐍂

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paːr/
• Rhymes: -aːr

Etymology 1

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

Noun

bar m (genitive singular bars, nominative plural barir)

1. bar (establishment offering alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises)
2. bar (counter at which such beverages are sold or offered)
3. (by extension) a counter where a buffet or a specialized kind of food is offered

Declension

declension of bar

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

bar n (genitive singular bars, nominative plural bör)

1. bar (unit of pressure)

Declension

declension of bar

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

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English.

Noun

bar m (plural bar)

1. bar (place serving drinks)

   C'è un bar qui vicino? ― Is there a bar nearby?

2. café

Derived terms

• barista

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Kurdish

Noun

bar m

1. 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

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Latvian

Verb

bar

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of bārt
2. 3rd person singular present indicative form of bārt
3. 3rd person plural present indicative form of bārt
4. 2nd person singular imperative form of bārt
5. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of bārt
6. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of bārt

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Lojban

Rafsi

bar

1. rafsi of bartu.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

bar

1. simple past of bære

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *baizaz.

Noun

bār m

1. A boar

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Old High German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bar/

Adjective

bar

1. bare

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Old Saxon

Etymology

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

Adjective

bār

1. bare

Declension

Positive forms of bār

Strong declension
	masculine		neuter		feminine
	singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural
nominative	bār	bāre	bār	bāre	bār	bāru
accusative	bārana	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

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bar/

• audio

  (file)

Etymology 1

From English bar.

Noun

bar m inan

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

Declension

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

• barowy, barman

Etymology 2

From Latin barium

Noun

Chemical element
Ba	Previous: cez (Cs)
	Next: lantan (La)

bar m inan

1. barium

Declension

declension of bar

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

Etymology 3

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

Noun

bar m

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

Declension

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

External links

• “bar” in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Wikipedia ^pt

Etymology

From English bar.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /baɾ/
• (Caipira) IPA^(key): /baɹ/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /baɻ/
• (Carioca) IPA^(key): /baχ/
• (Nordestino) IPA^(key): /bah/

Noun

bar m (plural bares)

1. pub, bar (drinking establishment, public house)
2. bar (unit of pressure)

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Romani

Noun

bar f (plural bar)

1. A garden
2. A fence

bar m (plural bar)

1. stone

Derived terms

• barari
• pedongi bar

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From English bar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bâːr/.

Noun

bȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ба̑р)

1. public house, bar

Declension

    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

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bâːr/

Noun

bȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ба̑р)

1. bar (unit of pressure)

Declension

    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

Shortened from bàrem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bâr/

Adverb

bȁr (Cyrillic spelling ба̏р)

1. at least

References

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

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Spanish

Etymology

From English bar.

Noun

bar m (plural bares)

1. bar, pub

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• audio

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Etymology 1

From Old Swedish bar (Old Norse berr). Cognate with English bare. See Old English bær.

Adjective

bar

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

Declension

Declension of bar

Inflections of bar		Absolute	Comparative	Superlative
				Attributive	Predicative
Indefinite singular	Common	bar	barare		barast
	Neuter	bart
Definite singular	Masc.	bare		baraste
	All	bara		baraste
Plural		bara		baraste

Etymology 2

See bära.

Verb

bar

1. past tense of bära.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English bar.

Noun

bar c

1. A bar, pub; place where mainly alcoholic drinks are served.
2. A (bar) counter

Declension

Declension of bar

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bar	baren	barer	barerna
genitive	bars	barens	barers	barernas

Etymology 4

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

Noun

bar c

1. A bar; a unit of pressure

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Turkish

Etymology

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

Noun

bar

1. (dialectal) dance, round dance

References

• “պար” in Hračʿeay Ačaṙean (1971–79), Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words], in 4 vols (second edition), Yerevan: Yerevan State University
• “bar” in (1963–1982), Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey], in 12 vols, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu

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