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barn
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: bärn, IPA(key): /b??n/
- (General Australian, Boston) IPA(key): [ba?n]
- (NYC) IPA(key): [b??n]
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): [b??n]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [b??n]
- (General American) IPA(key): [b??n]
- Rhymes: -??(?)n
Etymology 1
From Middle English bern, from Old English bearn, bern, contracted forms of Old English berern, bereærn (“barn, granary”), compound of bere (“barley”) and ærn, ræn (“dwelling, barn”), from Proto-West Germanic *ra?n, from Proto-Germanic *razn? (compare Old Norse rann), from pre-Germanic *h?rh??-s-nó-, from Proto-Indo-European *h?erh?- (“to rest”).
More at rest and barley.
For the use as a unit of surface area, see w:Barn (unit) § Etymology.
Noun
barn (plural barns)
- (agriculture) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
- (nuclear physics) A unit of surface area equal to 10?28 square metres.
- (informal, basketball, ice hockey) An arena.
Derived terms
See also
- Besses o' th' Barn
Translations
Verb
barn (third-person singular simple present barns, present participle barning, simple past and past participle barned)
- (transitive) To lay up in a barn.
Etymology 2
From Middle English barn, bern, from Old English bearn (“child, son, offspring, prodigy”) and Old Norse barn (“child”). Doublet of bairn. Cognate in Frisian: bern (child/children).
Noun
barn (plural barns)
- (dialect, parts of Northern England) A child.
Synonyms
- (child): bairn
Translations
References
- barn at OneLook Dictionary Search
- barn in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Bran, NRAB, bran
Breton
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *barnati (“proclaim”). Cognate with Cornish barna.
Verb
barn
- (transitive) to judge
Inflection
Conjugation
Derived terms
Danish
Etymology
From Old Danish, Old Norse barn (“child”), from Proto-Germanic *barn?. Compare English bairn.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b???n]
Noun
barn n (singular definite barnet, plural indefinite børn)
- child (immature human)
- Dette er ikke et passende sted for børn.
- This is not a fitting place for children.
- Dette er ikke et passende sted for børn.
- child (human offspring)
- Mine børn er alle flyttet hjemmefra.
- My children have all moved out.
- Mine børn er alle flyttet hjemmefra.
Usage notes
In compounds: barn-, barne-, barns- or børne-.
Declension
Derived terms
References
- “barn” in Den Danske Ordbog
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barn?, the passive participle of *beran?; cognate with Latvian b?rns (“child”), Lithuanian bérnas (“servant”); from Proto-Indo-European *b?er-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?patn]
- Rhymes: -atn
Noun
barn n (genitive singular barns, plural børn)
- child
Declension
French
Noun
barn m (plural barns)
- (physics) barn (unit)
Gothic
Romanization
barn
- Romanization of ????????????????
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barn?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?partn?], IPA(key): [?patn?] (colloquial), IPA(key): [?parn] (Southeast dialect)
- Rhymes: -artn, -atn
Noun
barn n (genitive singular barns, nominative plural börn)
- child
Declension
Derived terms
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English barn.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?barn/
Noun
barn m (invariable)
- (nuclear physics) barn (unit of surface area)
References
- barn in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English bearn, from Proto-West Germanic *barn, from Proto-Germanic *barn?.
Alternative forms
- bern, bearn, bærn, barne, berne, baren
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /barn/, /ba?rn/, /b?rn/
Noun
barn (plural barnes or barnen)
- A member of one's immediate offspring or progeny.
- A child, youth, or baby
- A person; a member of humanity
- A younger soldier or fighter
Related terms
- barneschen
- barnhede
- barnles
- barntem
- stepbarn
Descendants
- Scots: bairn
- ? English: bairn
- English: barn (obsolete, dialectal)
- Northumbrian: bairn
References
- “b??rn, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.
Etymology 2
From Old English bereærn.
Noun
barn
- Alternative form of bern (“barn”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse barn (“child”), from Proto-Germanic *barn? (“child”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?er- (“to bear, carry”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b???/
Noun
barn n (definite singular barnet, indefinite plural barn, definite plural barna or barnene)
- a child
Derived terms
References
- “barn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barn? (“child”), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *b?er- (“to bear, carry”). The plural form born is from the Old Norse u-umlauted form b?rn. This um-laut can also be seen in Icelandic börn and Danish and Faroese børn.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??rn/ (examples of pronunciation)
Noun
barn n (definite singular barnet, indefinite plural barn or born, definite plural barna or borna)
- a child
Inflection
Derived terms
Related terms
- bera (“to bear, carry”, verb)
References
- “barn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barn?.
Noun
barn n (genitive barns, plural børn)
- child
Descendants
- Danish: barn
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *barn?, the passive participle of *beran?; cognate with Latvian b?rns (“child”), Lithuanian bérnas (“servant”); from Proto-Indo-European *b?er-.
Noun
barn n (genitive barns, plural b?rn)
- child
Declension
Descendants
- Icelandic: barn
- Faroese: barn
- Norwegian Bokmål: barn
- Old Swedish: barn
- Swedish: barn
- Old Danish: barn
- Danish: barn
- Gutnish: ban
References
- barn in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *barn, from Proto-Germanic *barn?, whence also Old English bearn, Old High German barn, Swedish barn.
Noun
barn n
- child
Declension
Old Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barn?.
Noun
barn n
- child
Declension
Descendants
- Swedish: barn
Polish
Noun
barn m inan
- barn (unit)
Declension
Further reading
- barn in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish barn (“child”), from Old Norse barn (“child”), from Proto-Germanic *barn?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?er-. Cognate with Danish barn, Icelandic barn, Old Saxon barn, Old High German barn, Latvian b?rns (“child”), Lithuanian bérnas (“worker”) and bern?lis (“lad”), a kind of participle to bära (“to bear, to carry, as in childbirth”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??rn/, [b???]
Noun
barn n
- a child (a young person)
- (someone's) child, offspring (a son or daughter)
- a descendant (e.g. children of Abraham)
- a follower (e.g. God's children)
- (someone's) creation, invention
- (uncountable) barn; a unit of area in nuclear physics
Declension
Synonyms
- unge
Related terms
See also
- pojke
- flicka
References
- barn in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- barn in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Welsh
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *barnati from Proto-Indo-European *g?erH-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /barn/
Noun
barn f (plural barnau)
- opinion, view
- judgement, sentence
Derived terms
- barnu (“to adjudge; to pass sentence”)
Mutation
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barnful
English
Etymology
barn +? -ful
Noun
barnful (plural barnfuls or barnsful)
- The amount that can fit in a barn
barnful From the web:
- what does barnful mean
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