barre

See also: Barre, barré, and barrë

English

A ballet barre

Barre chord

Etymology

Borrowed from French barre. Doublet of bar.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɑː/
• (General American) enPR: bär, IPA^(key): /bɑɹ/, [bɑɹ], [bɑ˞]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /baː/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (UK):

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

Noun

barre (plural barres)

1. (ballet) A handrail fixed to a wall used for ballet exercises.
2. (music) Short for barre chord.

Translations

a handrail fixed to a wall

• Finnish: tanko (fi)
• French: barre (fr) f

Verb

barre (third-person singular simple present barres, present participle barring, simple past and past participle barred)

1. (music) To form a barre chord on an instrument.

Translations

to form a barre chord

• Vietnamese: bấm ba-rê

Anagrams

• Berra, Raber, aberr, arber, barer, berra, rebar

Albanian

Noun

barre

1. indefinite dative/ablative singular of barrë

Basque

Etymology

From Proto-Basque *baRe, probably of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bare/ [ba.re]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -are, -e
• Hyphenation: ba‧rre

Noun

barre inan

1. laughter

Declension

Declension of barre (inanimate, ending in vowel)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	barre	barrea	barreak
ergative	barrek	barreak	barreek
dative	barreri	barreari	barreei
genitive	barreren	barrearen	barreen
comitative	barrerekin	barrearekin	barreekin
causative	barrerengatik	barrearengatik	barreengatik
benefactive	barrerentzat	barrearentzat	barreentzat
instrumental	barrez	barreaz	barreez
inessive	barretan	barrean	barreetan
locative	barretako	barreko	barreetako
allative	barretara	barrera	barreetara
terminative	barretaraino	barreraino	barreetaraino
directive	barretarantz	barrerantz	barreetarantz
destinative	barretarako	barrerako	barreetarako
ablative	barretatik	barretik	barreetatik
partitive	barrerik	—	—
prolative	barretzat	—	—

Further reading

• “barre”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “barre”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French barre (“bar, ingot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /barə/, [ˈb̥ɑːɑ]

Noun

barre c (singular definite barren, plural indefinite barrer)

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

Inflection

Declension of barre

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	barre	barren	barrer	barrerne
genitive	barres	barrens	barrers	barrernes

Further reading

• barre on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Adjective

barre

1. inflection of bar:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

French

Etymology

From Middle French 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 *bʰerH- (“to strike, pierce”).

If so, then cognate with Old High German para, bara (“bar, beam, one's cherished land”), Middle Dutch bāre, baer (“bar, barrier, rail”), 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”).

An alternative etymology derives Old French barre and Vulgar Latin *barra from a Celtic source related to Breton barri (“branch, twig”).

Doublet of bar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baʁ/ ~ /bɑʁ/

• Audio:

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Noun

barre f (plural barres)

1. bar, cake, ingot
2. (typography) Clipping of barre oblique: the slash mark ⟨/⟩
3. (typography) Clipping of barre de fraction: the fraction slash ⟨⁄⟩
4. (typography) Clipping of barre inscrite: the bar diacritics ⟨̵⟩, ⟨̶⟩, ⟨̷⟩, and ⟨̸⟩
5. (typography) Clipping of barre verticale: the vertical bar ⟨|⟩
6. (typography, improper) Clipping of barre oblique inversée: the backslash ⟨\⟩
7. (nautical) helm, tiller
8. (heraldry) bend sinister

Derived terms

• à la barre
• barre de mesure
• barre de recherche
• barre d’outils
• barre fixe
• barre inscrite
• barre oblique
• barre oblique inverse
• barre oblique inversée
• barre russe
• barre transversale
• barre verticale
• barres asymétriques
• barres parallèles
• barreur
• coup de barre
• point barre
• redresser la barre
• se taper des barres
• tenir la barre

Descendants

• → English: barre
• → Romanian: bară
• → Vietnamese: ba-rê

Further reading

• “barre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• arbre

Italian

Noun

barre f

1. plural of barra

Anagrams

• berrà

Latin

Noun

barre

1. vocative singular of barrus

Middle English

Alternative forms

• barr, bar, bare

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French barre, from Vulgar Latin *barra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbar(ə)/

Noun

barre (plural barres)

1. barrier, obstruction

Descendants

• English: bar (see there for further descendants)

References

• “barre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norman

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey):

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Noun

barre f (plural barres)

1. (Jersey, nautical) helm, tiller; reef
2. (Jersey, cycling) crossbar

Synonyms

• (crossbar): barre dé travèrs

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German Barre, Barren, from French barre and Latin barra.

Noun

barre m (definite singular barren, indefinite plural barrer, definite plural barrene)

1. a bar or ingot (of precious metal)
2. a barre (e.g. for ballet training)

Derived terms

• gullbarre

References

• “barre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• NAOB [1]

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From German Barren, from French barre and Latin barra.

Noun

barre m (definite singular barren, indefinite plural barrar, definite plural barrane)

1. a bar or ingot (of precious metal)

Derived terms

• gullbarre

References

• “barre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *barra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbarə/

Noun

barre oblique singular, 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

Derived terms

• barriere

Descendants

• Middle French: barre
  • French: barre
    • → English: barre
    • → Romanian: bară
    • → Vietnamese: ba-rê
• → Middle English: barre, barr, bar, bare
  • English: bar (see there for further descendants)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈba.ʁi/ [ˈba.hi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈba.ʁi/ [ˈba.hi]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈba.ʁi/ [ˈba.χi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈba.ʁe/ [ˈba.he]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈba.ʁɨ/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -aʁi, (Portugal) -aʁɨ
• Homophone: varre (Porto)
• Hyphenation: bar‧re

Verb

barre

1. inflection of barrar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative
2. third-person singular present indicative of barrir

Spanish

Verb

barre

1. inflection of barrar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative
2. inflection of barrer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative