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English

Etymology

From Middle English beer, beere, bere, from Old English b?r, (West Saxon) b?r (“stretcher, bier”), from Proto-West Germanic *b?ru, from Proto-Germanic *b?r?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?er- (“to carry, bear”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Beere (“stretcher, bier”), Dutch baar (“bier”), German Bahre (“bier, stretcher”). More at bear.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bi?/
• Rhymes: -??(r)
• Homophone: beer

Noun

bier (plural biers)

1. A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person.
   • 1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act IV, scene 5:

     They bore him bare-faced on the bier.

2. A platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed.

   • On April 5, 1925, Chiang Kai-shek returned from the First Eastern Expedition to the Whampoa Military Academy to officiate at a funeral service for Sun Yat-sen, who had died in Peking on March 12. Huang Chi-lu, then a young professor of political science at the University of Kwangtung and destined to become director of the Kuomintang Archives some forty years later, has informed us of the display of strong emotion evidenced by Chiang on this occasion: "The service was officiated by Mr. Chiang and Liao Chung-k'ai and was attended by over four thousand officers, cadets, and soldiers. As the funeral ceremonies began, Mr. Chiang, unable to control himself, wept bitterly and audibly, causing all in the assembly to shed tears."¹ Three years later, at the conclusion of the Northern Expedition, a similarly melodramatic scene unfolded before the eyes of the public as Chiang visited Sun's bier in the suburbs of Peking.

3. A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woollen cloth.

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Translations

Further reading

• bier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Brie, brie

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch bier, from Middle Dutch bier, from Old Dutch bier, from Proto-Germanic *beuz? (“beer”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ews- (“dross”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bir/, [bi?r]

Noun

bier (plural biere, diminutive biertjie)

1. beer (alcoholic drink brewed from grains or other starch material)
2. (countable) a serving of beer

Derived terms

• bierbottel
• bierglas

Danish

Noun

bier c

1. indefinite plural of bi

Verb

bier

1. present of bie

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bier, from Old Dutch bier, from Proto-West Germanic *beu?, from Proto-Germanic *beuz? (“beer”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ews- (“dross”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bir/, [bi?r]
• Hyphenation: bier
• Rhymes: -ir

Noun

bier n (plural bieren, diminutive biertje n)

1. (uncountable) beer (alcoholic drink brewed from grains or other starch material)

   Het is hier nu vooral feest en bier drinken.

   Here it's mostly partying and drinking beer.

2. (countable) a serving of beer
3. (countable) a variety of beer

Synonyms

• gerstenat

Derived terms

- beer types

Descendants

• Afrikaans: bier
• ? Indonesian: bir
• ? Japanese: ??? (b?ru)
  • ? Hakka: ?? (pi-lú)
  • ? Korean: ?? (bireu)
  • ? Min Nan: bì-lù, bì-luh, bih-luh
  • ? Jeju: ?? (bireu)
• ? Javanese: bir
• ? Sranan Tongo: biri
  • ? Aukan: bii
  • ? Saramaccan: bíi

Anagrams

• brei

German

Verb

bier

1. singular imperative of bieren
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of bieren

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch bier, from Proto-West Germanic *beu?, from Proto-Germanic *beuz?.

Noun

bier n

1. beer

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: bier (see there for further descendants)
  • Afrikaans: bier
• Limburgish: beer
• ? Old French: biere (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “bier”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “bier”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

bier m or f

1. indefinite plural of bie

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

bier f

1. indefinite plural of bie

Vilamovian

Etymology

See bj?r

Pronunciation

Noun

bier f (plural biern)

1. berry

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi??r/

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian bi?r, from Proto-West Germanic *beu?, from Proto-Germanic *beuz?.

Noun

bier n (plural bieren, diminutive bierke)

1. beer

Further reading

• “bier (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 2

From Old Frisian b?re, from Proto-West Germanic *b?ru

Noun

bier n (plural bieren)

1. A bier (litter).

Further reading

• “bier (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??i/, enPR: b?'ri
• Rhymes: -?ri
• Homophones: bury, Barry (in accents with the Mary–marry–merry merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English berye, from Old English ber?e, from Proto-West Germanic *ba?i, from Proto-Germanic *bazj?.

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Bäie, West Flemish beier, German Beere, Icelandic ber, Danish bær.

The slang sense “police car” may come from the lights on the vehicles’ roofs.

Noun

berry (plural berries)

1. A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.
2. (botany) A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits.
3. A coffee bean.
4. One of the ova or eggs of a fish.

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5. (slang, US, African-American) A police car.
6. (US, slang, dated) A dollar.
   • 1921, Collier's (volume 67, page 365)

     Four rounds and Enright still on his feet and a hundred and fifty thousand berries gone if he stays two more!

Usage notes

Many fruits commonly regarded as berries, such as strawberries and raspberries, are not berries in the botanical sense, while many fruits which are berries in the botanical sense are not regarded as berries in common parlance, such as bananas and pumpkins.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (ber?)
• ? Thai: ??????? (b??-rîi)

Translations

References

Verb

berry (third-person singular simple present berries, present participle berrying, simple past and past participle berried)

1. To pick berries.

   On summer days Grandma used to take us berrying, whether we wanted to go or not.
2. To bear or produce berries.

Usage notes

• Unlikely to be used to refer to commercial harvesting of berries.

Derived terms

• berrying

Etymology 2

From Middle English ber?e, berghe, from Old English beor?e, dative form of beorg (“mountain, hill, mound, barrow”), from Proto-West Germanic *berg, from Proto-Germanic *bergaz (“mountain, hill”). More at barrow.

Alternative forms

• berye, berie

Noun

berry (plural berries)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) A mound; a barrow.

Etymology 3

From Middle English bery (“a burrow”). More at burrow.

Noun

berry (plural berries)

1. (dialectal) A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow.
2. An excavation; a military mine.

Etymology 4

From Middle English beryen, berien, from Old English *berian (found only in past participle ?ebered (“crushed, kneaded, harassed, oppressed, vexed”)), from Proto-West Germanic *barjan, from Proto-Germanic *barjan? (“to beat, hit”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?erH- (“to rip, cut, split, grate”).

Cognate with Scots berry, barry (“to thresh, thrash”), German beren (“to beat, knead”), Icelandic berja (“to beat”), Latin feri? (“strike, hit”, verb).

Verb

berry (third-person singular simple present berries, present participle berrying, simple past and past participle berried)

1. (transitive) To beat; give a beating to; thrash.
2. (transitive) To thresh (grain).

Anagrams

• Bryer