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Webster 1913 Edition

Bar

Bar

(bär)
,
Noun.
[OE.
barre
, F.
barre
, fr. LL.
barra
, W.
bar
the branch of a tree, bar,
baren
branch, Gael. & Ir.
barra
bar. √91.]
1.
A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening;
as, the
bars
of a fence or gate; the
bar
of a door
.
Thou shalt make
bars
of shittim wood.
Ex. xxvi. 26.
2.
An indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long in proportion to its breadth and thickness;
as, a
bar
of gold or of lead; a
bar
of soap
.
3.
Anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
Must I new
bars
to my own joy create?
Dryden.
4.
A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.
5.
Any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges;
as, the
bar
of the House of Commons
.
6.
(Law)
(a)
The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court signifies in open court.
(b)
The place in court where prisoners are stationed for arraignment, trial, or sentence.
(c)
The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the legal profession.
(d)
A special plea constituting a sufficient answer to plaintiff’s action.
7.
Any tribunal;
as, the
bar
of public opinion; the
bar
of God
.
8.
A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept.
9.
(Her.)
An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field.
10.
A broad shaft, or band, or stripe;
as, a
bar
of light; a
bar
of color
.
11.
(Mus.)
A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.
☞ A double bar marks the end of a strain or main division of a movement, or of a whole piece of music; in psalmody, it marks the end of a line of poetry. The term bar is very often loosely used for measure, i.e., for such length of music, or of silence, as is included between one bar and the next; as, a passage of eight bars; two bars' rest.
12.
(Far.)
pl.
(a)
The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
(b)
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 center of the sole.
13.
(Mining)
(a)
A drilling or tamping rod.
(b)
A vein or dike crossing a lode.
14.
(Arch.)
(a)
A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
(b)
A slender strip of wood which divides and supports the glass of a window; a sash bar.
Bar shoe
(Far.)
,
a kind of horseshoe having a bar across the usual opening at the heel, to protect a tender frog from injury.
–
Bar shot
,
a double headed shot, consisting of a bar, with a ball or half ball at each end; – formerly used for destroying the masts or rigging in naval combat.
–
Bar sinister
(Her.)
,
a term popularly but erroneously used for baton, a mark of illegitimacy. See
Baton
.
–
Bar tracery
(Arch.)
,
ornamental stonework resembling bars of iron twisted into the forms required.
–
Blank bar
(Law)
.
See
Blank
.
–
Case at bar
(Law)
,
a case presently before the court; a case under argument.
–
In bar of
,
as a sufficient reason against; to prevent.
–
Matter in bar
, or
Defence in bar
,
any matter which is a final defense in an action.
–
Plea in bar
,
a plea which goes to bar or defeat the plaintiff's action absolutely and entirely.
–
Trial at bar
(Eng. Law)
,
a trial before all the judges of one the superior courts of Westminster, or before a quorum representing the full court.

Bar

(bär)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Barred
(bärd);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Barring
.]
[ F.
barrer
. See
Bar
,
Noun.
]
1.
To fasten with a bar;
as, to
bar
a door or gate
.
2.
To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit;
as, to
bar
the entrance of evil; distance
bars
our intercourse; the statute
bars
my right; the right is
barred
by time; a release
bars
the plaintiff's recovery
; – sometimes with up.
He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened to
bar
it in its dungeon.
Hawthorne.
3.
To except; to exclude by exception.
Nay, but I
bar
to-night: you shall not gauge me
By what we do to-night.
Shakespeare
4.
To cross with one or more stripes or lines.
For the sake of distinguishing the feet more clearly, I have
barred
them singly.
Burney.

Webster 1828 Edition

Bar

B'AR

,
Noun.
[If these words are the Eng.bar, the sense is a shoot, that which shoots, passes or is driven.]
1.
A piece of wood,iron or other solid matte, long in proportion to its diameter, used for various purposes, but especially for a hindrance or obstruction; as the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door or hatchway. Numb.iii.36. Ex.xxvi.26.
2.
Any obstacle which obstructs, hinders or defends; an obstruction; a fortification. Amos i.
Must I new bars to my own joy create.
3.
The shore of the sea, which restrains its waters. Job xxxviii.
4.
The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in courts of justice. Hence the phrase, at the bar of the court, signifies in open court. Hence also licensed lawyers are called barristers; and hence the whole body of lawyers licensed in a court, are customarily called the bar. A trial at bar, in England, is a trial in the courts of Westminster, opposed to a trial at Nisi Prius, in the circuits.
5.
Figuratively, any tribunal; as the bar of public opinion. Thus the final trial of men is called the bar of God.
6.
The inclosed place of a tavern, inn or coffee house, where the landlord or his servant delivers out liquors,and waits upon customers.
7.
A bank of sand, gravel or earth, forming a shoal at the 32
mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing entrance, or rendering it difficult.
8.
A rock in the sea, according to Brown; or any thing by which structure is held together, according to Johnson; used in Jonah ii.
9.
Any thing laid across another, as bars in heraldlry, stripes in color,and the like.
10. In the menage, the highest part of the place in a horse's mouth between the grinders and tusks, so that the part of the mouth which lies under and at the side of the bars, retains the name of the gum. The upper part of the gums, which bears no teeth, and to which the bit is applied.
11. In music, bars are lines drawn perpendicularly across the lines of the staff, including between each two, a certain quantity of time, or number of beats.
12. In law, a peremptory exception sufficient to destroy the plaintiff's action. It is divided into a bar to common intendment, and bar special; bar temporary and bar perpetual. Bar to common intendment is an ordinary or general bar, which disables the declaration of the plaintiff. A special bar is more than ordinary, as a fine, release, or justification. A temporary bar is that which is good for a time, but may afterwards cease. A perpetual bar overthrows the action of the plaintiff forever.
13. A bar of gold or silver,is an ingot, lump or wedge, from the mines, run in a mold, and unwrought. A bar of iron is a long piece, wrought in the forge and hammered from a pig.
14. Among printers, the iron with a wooden handle,by which the screw of the press is turned.
15. In the African trade, a denomination of price; payment formerly being made to the Africans in iron bars.

B'AR

,
Verb.
T.
To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door, or gate.
2.
To hinder; to obstruct, or prevent; as, to bar the entrance of evil.
3.
To prevent; to exclude; to hinder; to make impracticable; as, the distance between us bars our intercourse. In this sense, the phrase is often varied, thus; the distance bars me from his aid, or bars him from my aid.
4.
To prohibit; to restrain or exclude by express or implied prohibition; as, the statute bars my right; the law bars the use of poisoned weapons.
5.
To obstruct, prevent or hinder by any moral obstacle; as, the right is barred by time, or by statute; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery.
6.
To except; to exclude by exception; as, I bar to night.
7.
To cross with stripes of a different color.
8.
To bar a vein, in farriery, is an operation upon the legs of a horse, or other parts, to stop malignant humors. This is done by opening the skin above a vein, disengaging it and tying it both above and below, and striking between the two ligatures.
9.
To adorn with trappings; a contraction of barb. [See Barb.]
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Definition 2024

Bar

Bar

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

English

Proper noun

Bar

  1. A city in Montenegro.
  2. Abbreviated form of the female given name Barbara.

Translations

Anagrams

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [baːɐ]
  • Rhymes: -aːɐ̯

Etymology 1

Loaned in the 19th century from English bar, from French barre.

Noun

Bar f ‎(genitive Bar, plural Bars)

  1. bar (desk)
  2. night club (pub)

Etymology 2

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

Noun

Bar n ‎(genitive Bars, plural Bars)

  1. bar (unit of pressure)

Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Bar m ‎(Cyrillic spelling Бар)

  1. Bar

bar

bar

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

English

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. (typography) Various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) inclusive of oblique marks such as the slash.
  7. (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.
  8. 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.
  9. The counter of such a premises.
    Step up to the bar and order a drink.
  10. A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
  11. (by extension, In combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar etc.) A premises or counter serving any type of beverage.
  12. An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
    a burger bar; a local fish bar
  13. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
    The club has lifted its bar on women members.
  14. Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
    • Dryden
      Must I new bars to my own joy create?
  15. (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.
  16. (Britain, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay
  17. (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.
  18. (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.
  19. (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
  20. (music) One of those musical sections.
  21. (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault
  22. (soccer) The crossbar
    • 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:
      Composed play then saw Sam Ricketts nutmeg Ashley Cole before Taylor whipped a fine curling effort over Petr Cech's bar.
  23. (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
  24. An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act
  25. A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
  26. (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).
  27. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.
  28. 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.
  29. A city gate, in some British place names.
    Potter's Bar
  30. (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
  31. (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
  32. (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
  33. (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.
  34. (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
Derived terms
Translations
Descendants

See also

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 **** 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
Derived terms
Translations

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
Derived terms
Translations

References

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

bar ‎(plural bars)

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

Synonyms

  • ㍴
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations

Anagrams

Afar

Noun

bar

  1. night

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *bara, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (compare Greek φάρμακον ‎(phármakon, “drug, medicine”), Lithuanain 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.

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
  6. (figuratively, colloquial) marijuana, likely calque from English or French

References

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

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

Verb

bar

  1. to carry (away), bear, endure
Derived terms
Related terms

Catalan

Noun

bar m ‎(plural bars)

  1. bar (establishment)
  2. bar (unit of measure)

Cimbrian

Pronoun

bar

  1. we; us

Synonyms

References

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

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bar/

Etymology 1

From English bar.[1]

Noun

bar m

  1. A bar (a business selling beverages)
  2. A bar (the counter of such a premises)
  3. A bar (a cabinet used to store alcoholic drinks in a private house or a hotel room)
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms

Etymology 2

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

Noun

bar m

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

References

  1. ↑ bar¹ in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, electronic version, Leda, 2007
  2. ↑ bar² in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, electronic version, Leda, 2007

Dalmatian

Etymology

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

Verb

bar ‎(second-person plural present baite)

  1. to drink

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baːr/, [b̥ɑːˀ]

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

bar

  1. bare, naked
  2. sheer, pure
Inflection
Inflection of bar
Positive Comparative Superlative
Common singular bar — —2
Neuter singular bart — —2
Plural bare — —2
Definite attributive1 bare — —
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

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

Etymology 3

From Ancient Greek βάρος ‎(báros, “weight”)

Noun

bar c ‎(plural indefinite bar)

  1. bar (unit of pressure)

Etymology 4

Non-lemma forms.

Verb

bar

  1. past tense of bære

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
Inflection
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 —

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
Related terms

References

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

Faroese

Verb

bar

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

Conjugation

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baʁ/
  • Rhymes: -aʁ

Noun

bar m ‎(plural bars)

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

German

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aːɐ̯

Adjective

bar ‎(not comparable)

  1. bare

Declension

Adverb

bar

  1. in cash
  2. pure

Preposition

bar

  1. without

Synonyms

Gothic

Romanization

bar

  1. Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐍂

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

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English bar.

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

Kashmiri

Noun

bar

  1. a door

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

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

Lojban

Rafsi

bar

  1. rafsi of bartu.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse berr and Old Danish bar

Adjective

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

  1. bare, naked
    • Han kom tettere inn til henne, la armen rundt ryggen hennes og bøyet hodet sitt ned mot hennes bare skulder, kysset den. ("Ikke provosèr ham", by Inger Torill Jørgensen, 2014)
Derived terms

See also

Etymology 2

From English bar

Noun

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

  1. a bar (place where alcohol is served)
  2. a bar (sandbank at the mouth of a river or harbour)
Related terms

Etymology 3

Verb

bar

  1. simple past of bære

References

  • “bar” in The Bokmål Dictionary. (adjective on page 2)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English bar

Noun

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

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

Related terms

References

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bairaz.

Noun

bār m

  1. boar

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Old High German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bar/

Adjective

bar

  1. bare

Old Saxon

Etymology

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

Adjective

bār

  1. bare

Declension


Old Swedish

Etymology

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

Adjective

bar

  1. bare

Declension

Descendants

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bar/

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
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin barium

Noun

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

bar m inan

  1. barium
Declension

Etymology 3

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

Noun

bar m inan

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

Portuguese

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)

Romani

Noun

bar f ‎(plural bara)

  1. A garden
  2. A fence

bar m ‎(plural bar)

  1. stone

Derived terms

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From English bar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bâːr/.

Noun

bȃr m ‎(Cyrillic spelling ба̑р)

  1. public house, bar
Declension

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

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

Somali

Verb

bar

  1. Alternative spelling of baro

Spanish

Etymology

From English bar.

Noun

bar m ‎(plural bares)

  1. bar, pub

Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

bar (comparative barare, superlative barast)

  1. bare, uncovered; not covered by e.g. clothes (about people), fur (about certain animals) or a snow cover (about the ground)
Declension
Inflection of bar
Indefinite/attributive 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 an attributive role.

Etymology 2

See bära.

Verb

bar

  1. past tense of bära.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English bar.[1]

Noun

bar c

  1. A bar, pub; place where mainly alcoholic drinks are served.
  2. A (bar) counter
Declension
Inflection of bar 
Singular Plural
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

References

  1. 1 2 bar in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Turkish

Etymology

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

Noun

bar

  1. (dialectal) dance, round dance

References

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “պար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Dictionary of Armenian Root Words] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press, published 1926–1935
  • “bar”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /bɑː/
  • (US) enPR: bär, IPA(key): /bɑɹ/, [bɑɹ], [bɑ˞]
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
  • Homophones: baa, bah (in some pronunciations)

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