English

A barn (farm building) in Lithuania

Noun

barn ‎(plural barns)

1. (agriculture) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 11, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.

2. (nuclear physics) A unit of surface area equal to 10^-28square metres.
3. (informal, Canada, ice hockey) An arena.

   Maple Leaf Gardens was a grand old barn.‎

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

barn ‎(third-person singular simple present barns, present participle barning, simple past and past participle barned)

1. (transitive) To lay up in a barn.
   • Shakespeare

     Men […] often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)

Etymology 2

From Middle English barn, bern, from Old English bearn ‎(“child, son, offspring, prodigy”) and Old Norse barn ‎(“child”). More at bairn.

Noun

barn ‎(plural barns)

1. (dialect, parts of Northern England) A child.

Synonyms

• (child): bairn

Translations

Anagrams

• bran
• NRAB

Breton

Etymology

Cognate with Cornish barna.

Verb

barn

1. (transitive) to judge

Conjugation

Inflection

Derived terms

• barner
• barnadenn
• barnadur
• barnedigezh
• barner a beoc'h
• skiant-varn
• dezvarn

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish barn, from Old Norse barn ‎(“child”), from Proto-Germanic *barną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /barn/, [b̥ɑːˀn]

Noun

barn n (singular definite barnet, plural indefinite børn)

1. child

Usage notes

In compounds: barn-, barne-, barns- or børne-.

Related terms

Declension

References

• “barn” in Den Danske Ordbog

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną, the passive participle of *beraną; cognate with Latvian bērns ‎(“child”), Lithuanian bérnas ‎(“servant”); from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpatn]
• Rhymes: -atn

Noun

barn n (genitive singular barns, plural børn)

1. child

Declension

French

Noun

barn m ‎(plural barns)

1. (physics) barn (unit)

Gothic

Romanization

barn

1. Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌽

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpartn], IPA^(key): [ˈpatn] (colloquial), IPA^(key): [ˈparn] (Southeast dialect)
• Rhymes: -artn

Noun

barn n ‎(genitive singular barns, nominative plural börn)

1. a child

Declension

Derived terms

• smábarn
• brjóstbarn
• undrabarn
• ungabarn
• ungbarn
• barnalegur
• barnalæknir
• brennt barn forðast eldinn
• barnshafandi

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse barn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑːɳ/

Noun

barn n ‎(definite singular barnet, indefinite plural barn, definite plural barna or barnene)

1. a child

Derived terms

References

• “barn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse barn.

Noun

barn n ‎(definite singular barnet, indefinite plural barn or born, definite plural barna or borna)

1. a child

Derived terms

References

• “barn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną.

Noun

barn n ‎(genitive barns, plural børn)

1. child

Descendants

• Danish: barn

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *barną, the passive participle of *beraną; cognate with Latvian bērns ‎(“child”), Lithuanian bérnas ‎(“servant”); from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-.

Noun

barn n (genitive barns, plural bǫrn)

1. child

Declension

References

• barn in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *barną, whence also Old English barn, Old High German barn, Swedish barn.

Noun

barn n

1. child

Declension

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną.

Noun

barn n

1. child

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: barn

Polish

Noun

barn m inan

1. barn (unit)

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑːrn/, [bɑːɳ]

Etymology

From Old Swedish barn ‎(“child”), from Old Norse barn ‎(“child”), from Proto-Germanic *barną. Cognate with Danish, Icelandic, Old Saxon, Old High German barn. Cognate with Latvian bērns ‎(“child”), Lithuanian bérnas ‎(“worker”) and bernẽlis ‎(“lad”), a kind of participle to bära ‎(“to bear, to carry, as in childbirth”).

Noun

barn n

1. a child (a young person)
2. (someone's) child, offspring (a son or daughter)
3. a descendant (e.g. children of Abraham)
4. a follower (e.g. God's children)
5. (someone's) creation, invention
6. (uncountable) barn; a unit of area in nuclear physics

Declension

Synonyms

• unge

Related terms

See also

• pojke
• flicka

References

• barn in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
• barn in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [barn]

Noun

barn f (plural barnau)

1. opinion, view

Mutation