English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɑː(ɹ)m/

Noun

barm ‎(plural barms)

1. (obsolete except in dialects) Bosom, lap.
   • Late 14th century: And with that word this faucon gan to crie / And swowned eft in Canacees barm. — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales

Etymology 2

From Old English beorma; related to the dialectal (Low) German Bärm ("yeast"), from Middle Low German barm, berm. The cake sense is possibly a shortened form of barmcake, which would be made with yeast as described in that sense, or possibly it is from the Irish báirín breac, a type of cake.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɑː(ɹ)m/

Noun

barm ‎(countable and uncountable, plural barms)

1. Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast.
   • 1590?, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II. scene i. line 25:

     ...and sometimes make the drink to bear no barm.

   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 620:

     In 1577 yeast, called barm, is bought at 9d. the pail.

   • 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, p. 65:

     And he chaffed the women as he served them their ha'porths of barm.

2. A small, flat, round individual loaf or roll of bread.

Translations

See also

Cimbrian

Noun

barm ? ‎(plural [please provide])

1. heat

References

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

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse baðmr ‎(“bosom”).

Noun

barm c (singular definite barmen, plural indefinite barme)

1. bosom

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Old Norse barmr ‎(“rim”).

Noun

barm c (singular definite barmen, plural indefinite barme)

1. (nautical, archaic) a corner of a sail

Inflection

Gothic

Romanization

barm

1. Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌼

Icelandic

Noun

barm

1. indefinite accusative singular of barmur

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse baðmr ‎(“bosom”).

Noun

barm c

1. bosom

Declension