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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)

1. (agriculture) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
2. (nuclear physics) A unit of surface area equal to 10^?28 square metres.
3. (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)

1. (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)

1. (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

1. (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)

1. child (immature human)

   Dette er ikke et passende sted for børn.

   This is not a fitting place for children.

2. child (human offspring)

   Mine børn er alle flyttet hjemmefra.

   My children have all moved out.

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)

1. child

Declension

French

Noun

barn m (plural barns)

1. (physics) barn (unit)

Gothic

Romanization

barn

1. 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)

1. child

Declension

Derived terms

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English barn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?barn/

Noun

barn m (invariable)

1. (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)

2. A member of one's immediate offspring or progeny.
3. A child, youth, or baby
4. A person; a member of humanity
5. 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

2. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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

1. child

Declension

Old Swedish

Etymology

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

Noun

barn n

1. child

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: barn

Polish

Noun

barn m inan

1. 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

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 (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)

1. opinion, view
2. judgement, sentence

Derived terms

• barnu (“to adjudge; to pass sentence”)

Mutation

English

Etymology

barn +? -less

Adjective

barnless (not comparable)

1. Without a barn.

Anagrams

• bransles