lager
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈlɑːɡə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlɑɡɚ/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːɡə(ɹ)
- Homophone: laager; logger (with father-bother merger)
Etymology 1[edit]
From German Lagerbier (“beer made for storing”), from Lager (“store”).
Noun[edit]
lager (plural lagers)
- A type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast.
Coordinate terms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
Verb[edit]
lager (third-person singular simple present lagers, present participle lagering, simple past and past participle lagered)
- To store (lager beer) at a low temperature for maturing and clarification.
See also[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
lager (plural lagers)
- Alternative spelling of laager
Verb[edit]
lager (third-person singular simple present lagers, present participle lagering, simple past and past participle lagered)
- Alternative spelling of laager
Anagrams[edit]
Danish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From German Lager, cognate with Danish lejr.
Noun[edit]
lager n (singular definite lageret, plural indefinite lagre)
Inflection[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Abbreviation of lagerøl.
Noun[edit]
lager c (singular definite lageren, plural indefinite lagere)
- (rare) lager (type of beer)
Inflection[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From German Lager; doublet of leger
Noun[edit]
lager m or n (plural lagers, diminutive lagertje n)
- bearing (a metal block or other construction holding a rotating axis in position)
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
From German Lager, shortening of Lagerbier (“lager beer”), a compound of Lager (“camp”) + Bier (“beer”).
Noun[edit]
lager n (plural lagers, diminutive lagertje n)
- (archaic) beer of low fermentation
Etymology 3[edit]
Likely borrowed from German Lager (“camp, encampment”), with semantic influence from Afrikaans laer.
Noun[edit]
lager n (plural lagers)
- (historical) laager (wagon fort used by Boers, especially Voortrekkers)
Hypernyms[edit]
Etymology 4[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective[edit]
lager
Descendants[edit]
- Berbice Creole Dutch: lagri
German[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
lager
- first-person singular present of lagern (colloquial)
- singular imperative of lagern (colloquial)
Icelandic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
lager m (genitive singular lagers, nominative plural lagerar)
Declension[edit]
Antonyms[edit]
- (stock): vörubirgðir
- (store): vörugeymsla
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
lager n (definite singular lageret, indefinite plural lager or lagre, definite plural lagra or lagrene)
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
lager
Etymology 3[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
lager m
- indefinite plural of lag
References[edit]
- “lager” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Anagrams[edit]
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
lager n (definite singular lageret, indefinite plural lager, definite plural lagera)
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “lager” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
German Lager, from Middle High German leger, from Old High German legar, from Proto-West Germanic *legr. Doublet of läger (“place to sleep”).
Noun[edit]
lager n (countable)
- a store, a warehouse (a place where things are stored, for example before they are moved out to the sales area in a shop)
- a supply, stock (the things in a store)
- Synonym: förråd n
- a layer (a single thickness of some material covering a surface)
- a stratum (one of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another)
- Synonym: skikt n
- (mechanical engineering) a bearing (a mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction, especially between rotating parts)
Declension[edit]
| Declension of lager | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | lager | lagret | lager | lagren |
| Genitive | lagers | lagrets | lagers | lagrens |
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
From Old Swedish laver, laur, laghur, lagher, laghir, from Middle Dutch lauwer, ultimately from Latin laurus.
Noun[edit]
lager c (countable or uncountable)
- laurel
- (figuratively, usually in the plural) a crown of laurel, an academic merit
- där de härliga lagrarna gro
- where the wonderful laurels grow (i.e. at the university)
- vila inte på lagrarna
- don't rest on your laurels (don't let old victories make you lazy)
Declension[edit]
| Declension of lager | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | lager | lagern | lagrar | lagrarna |
| Genitive | lagers | lagerns | lagrars | lagrarnas |
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 3[edit]
Clipping of lageröl, from lager (“store”) + öl (“beer”).
Noun[edit]
lager c (countable or uncountable)
Declension[edit]
| Declension of lager | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | lager | lagern | lager | lagerna |
| Genitive | lagers | lagerns | lagers | lagernas |
Anagrams[edit]
- English 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/ɑːɡə(ɹ)
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *legʰ-
- English terms derived from German
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- English nouns
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- English verbs
- en:Beer
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- Rhymes:Danish/aːˀər
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- Danish terms derived from Middle High German
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- sv:Mechanical engineering
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- sv:Beer
- sv:Laurel family plants
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