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prevention

English

Etymology

prevent +? -ion. Compare French prévention.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /p???v?n??n/

Noun

prevention (countable and uncountable, plural preventions)

  1. The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting.
    a fire prevention campaign
    • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene 1,[1]
      Casca, be sudden, for we fear prevention.
    • 1672, Robert South, Sermon Preached at Christ-Church, Oxon. before the University, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, London: Thomas Bennet, Volume 3, p. 222,[2]
      But no Man Pities another for any Evil lying upon Him, which he would not help, but which he could not. One is his Burden, the other his Choice; Vertually at least, since he might have Chosen its Prevention.
    • 1982, Ronald Reagan, Presidential Radio Address - 2 October 1982
      In the next few days we'll announce the administration's new strategy for the prevention of drug abuse and drug trafficking.
  2. (medicine) Any measure intended to limit health-related risks (such as information campaigns, vaccination, early diagnosis etc.).
    • 1933, David Marshall Brooks, The Necessity of Atheism
      Whatever cures are known, and preventions that are practiced now, could have been common knowledge centuries ago.
  3. (obsolete) The act of going, or state of being, before.
    • 1627, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or A Naturall Historie, London: William Lee, III. Century, p. 59,[3]
      It is generally knowne and obserued, that Light, and the Obiect of Sight, moue swifter than Sound; For we see the Flash of a Peece [i.e. firearm] is seene sooner, than the Noise is heard. […] And the greater the Distance, the greater is the Preuention: As we see in Thunder, which is farre off; where the Lightning Precedeth the Cracke a good space.
  4. (obsolete) Anticipation; especially, anticipation of needs, wishes, hazards and risks
    • c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act II, Scene 4,[4]
      [Suffolk, York and Beaufort]
      Have all limed bushes to betray thy wings,
      And, fly thou how thou canst, they’ll tangle thee:
      But fear not thou, until thy foot be snared,
      Nor never seek prevention of thy foes.
  5. precaution; forethought.
    • 1659, Henry Hammond, A Paraphrase and Annotations upon All the Books of the New Testament, London: Richard Davis, The Gospel according to S. LUKE, Chapter 14, verse 3, p. 238,[5]
      And Jesus […] by way of prevention asked a question of the Doctors of the law and Pharisees that were present, saying, Is the working of a cure on a sick man a thing forbidden, and so unlawfull to be done upon a sabbath day?

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • pervention, provenient

Finnish

Noun

prevention

  1. Genitive singular form of preventio.

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bar

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /b??/
  • (US) enPR: bär, IPA(key): /b??/, [b??], [b??]
  • Rhymes: -??(?)
  • Homophones: baa, bah (in some pronunciations)

Etymology 1

From Middle English barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin. Doublet of barre.

Noun

bar (countable and uncountable, plural bars)

  1. A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
  2. (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is 1?4 inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
  3. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
  4. A broad shaft, or band, or stripe.
  5. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
  6. (typography) Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ?|?, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in ?), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
    Hyponyms: pipe, strikethrough
  7. (mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
  8. (physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is negative (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
  10. A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house.
    Synonyms: barroom, ginshop, (British) pub, public house, tavern; see also Thesaurus:pub
  12. The counter of such premises, sometimes called a wet bar.
  13. A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
  14. (by extension, in combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar etc.) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
  15. An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.
  16. An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
  17. An establishment offering cosmetic services.
  18. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
    Synonyms: ban, prohibition
  19. Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
    • 2013, Terence Dillon, A Long Way Home (page 184)
      Mr Harding could look back on his initial judgement of Paul's talent with great satisfaction while Paul could reflect that to be Irish was not necessarily a bar to progress.
  20. (programming, whimsical, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
  21. (Britain, Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
  22. (Britain, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay
  23. (US, law) "the Bar" or "the bar" The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
  24. (law, metonymically, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others.
  25. (telecommunications, electronics) One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
  26. (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
  27. (music) One of those musical sections.
    Synonym: measure
  28. (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault
  29. (figuratively) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
  30. (soccer, most codes) The crossbar.
  31. (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
  32. An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act
  33. A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
  34. (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
  35. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.
  36. A city gate, in some British place names.
  37. (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
  38. (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
  39. (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
  40. (farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
  41. (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations

See bar/translations § Etymology 1.

Suffix

bar

  1. (grammar, X-bar theory) Pronunciation of ¯, a symbol indicating an X-bar.

See also

  • (heraldry): Ordinary on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

  • The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [2]

Etymology 2

From Middle English barren, from Old French barrer, from Medieval Latin barrare (“to bar”), from the noun. Cognate Occitan barrar, Spanish barrar, Portuguese barrar.

Preposition properly imperative of the verb. Compare barring.

Verb

bar (third-person singular simple present bars, present participle barring, simple past and past participle barred)

  1. (transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
  2. (transitive) To prohibit.
  3. (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
  4. To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
Synonyms
  • (obstruct): block, hinder, obstruct
  • (prohibit): ban, interdict, prohibit
  • (lock or bolt with a bar):
  • See also Thesaurus:hinder
Derived terms
  • outbar
  • unbar
Translations

See bar/translations § Verb.

Preposition

bar

  1. Except, other than, besides.
  2. (horse racing) Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
Synonyms
  • (except): apart from, barring, except for, excluding, other than, save; see also Thesaurus:except
Derived terms
  • bar none
  • all over bar the shouting
Translations

References

  • William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914) , “bar”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, volume I (A–C), revised edition, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 1078064371, page 446.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (báros, “weight”), coined circa 1900.

Noun

bar (plural bars)

  1. A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.

Synonyms

  • ?
Derived terms
  • decibar
  • kilobar
  • megabar
  • millibar
Related terms
  • isobar
Translations

See bar/translations § Etymology 3.

Further reading

  • Bar (unit) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Bar in the 1920 edition of Encyclopedia Americana.

Anagrams

  • ABR, ARB, Arb., RBA, Rab, abr., arb, bra

Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /b??/

Noun

bar m (plural baritté f or barwá f)

  1. night

References

  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?[3], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch bar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [b??]

Adjective

bar (attributive barre, comparative barder, superlative barste)

  1. barren

References

  • 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *bara, from Proto-Indo-European *b?erH-, compare Ancient Greek ???????? (phármakon, “drug, medicine”), Lithuanian bùrti (“to conjure”).Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *b?ars- (“spike, prickle”) (compare Old Norse barr (“corn, grain, barley”), Welsh bara (“bread”), Latin far (“spelt”), Serbo-Croatian ???????/br?šno.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba?/

Noun

bar m (indefinite plural barëra, definite singular bari, definite plural barërat)

  1. grass
  2. (figuratively) tasteless food
Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

bar m (indefinite plural barna, definite singular bari, definite plural barnat)

  1. medicine, medication, medicinal plant
  2. (figuratively, colloquial) cure, palliative, solution
  3. (figuratively, colloquial) marijuana, likely a calque from English or French
Declension
Derived terms
  • barna
  • barnatore
  • barnatar
  • barnashitës
  • barni
  • barngrënës
  • barishte
  • barishtor
  • barishtak

References

Catalan

Etymology

From French barre

Noun

bar m (plural bars)

  1. bar (establishment)
  2. bar (unit of measure)

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

  • biar (Luserna)

Etymology

From Middle High German wir, from Old High German wir, from Proto-West Germanic *wi?, from Proto-Germanic *w?z.

Pronoun

bar

  1. (Sette Comuni) we
    Synonym: bandare

Inflection

References

  • “bar” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Crimean Tatar

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *b?r.

Predicative

bar

  1. there is, there are, indicates existence or possession
    Antonym: yoq

Etymology 2

Verb

bar

  1. second-person singular imperative of barmaq (“to go, to arrive”)

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bar/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bar.

Noun

bar m

  1. bar (a business selling beverages)
  2. bar (the counter of such a premises)
  3. bar (a cabinet used to store alcoholic drinks in a private house or a hotel room)
Declension
Derived terms
  • barový m
Related terms
  • barman m

Etymology 2

Borrowing from modern European languages, originally coined based on Ancient Greek ????? (báros, “weight”).

Noun

bar m

  1. bar, a non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals
Declension

Further reading

  • bar in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
  • bar in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin bibere.

Verb

bar (second-person plural present baite)

  1. to drink

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?ba??r/, [?b???]
  • Rhymes: -a??r

Etymology 1

From Old Danish bar, Old West Norse berr (with ?-umlaut), from Proto-Germanic *bazaz.

Adjective

bar (neuter bart, plural and definite singular attributive bare)

  1. bare, naked
  2. sheer, pure
Derived terms
  • bare
  • barbenet
  • barfodet
  • barfrost
  • barhovedet
  • min bare røv

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bar.

Noun

bar c (singular definite baren, plural indefinite barer)

  1. bar (business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages, counter of such a premises)
Inflection

Etymology 3

From Ancient Greek ????? (báros, “weight”).

Noun

bar c (singular definite baren, plural indefinite bar)

  1. bar (unit of pressure)
Inflection

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

bar

  1. past tense of bære

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /b?r/
  • Hyphenation: bar
  • Rhymes: -?r

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bar.

Noun

bar m (plural bars, diminutive barretje n)

  1. A bar, counter, drink cabinet.
  2. A bar, pub serving alchol.
Derived terms

-types of establishment

Etymology 2

From Old French barhaine, probably of Germanic origin, possibly Frankish *ba? (“bare; barren”).

Adjective

bar (comparative barder, superlative barst)

  1. harsh, tough (used mainly with koude (“cold”), or omstandigheden (“conditions”))
  2. barren, inhospitable, bare
  3. crude, grim, unfriendly
Inflection
Derived terms
  • barkoud
  • barslecht

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adverb

bar

  1. extremely (only in a negative sense)

Etymology 4

From Ancient Greek ????? (báros, “weight”), coined c. 1900.

Noun

bar

  1. bar (a unit of pressure, equal to 100,000 pascals)
Derived terms
  • kilobar
  • megabar
  • millibar
Related terms
  • isobaar

References

  • M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

Faroese

Verb

bar

  1. he, it bore, carried:: 1st and 3rd person singular past tense form of bera (“to bear, to carry”)

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • hetta bar ikki til (“this wasn’t possible”)

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ba?/
  • Rhymes: -a?

Etymology 1

From English bar

Noun

bar m (plural bars)

  1. A bar (establishment)
  2. A bar (counter)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *barsaz (“perch”).

Noun

bar m (plural bars)

  1. A bass (fish)

Further reading

  • “bar” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bar.

Noun

bar m (plural bares)

  1. bar, coffee shop, café, pub (an establishment where refreshments and alcohol drinks are served)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bar and this from Ancient Greek ????? (báros, “weight”).

Noun

bar m (plural bares)

  1. bar (unit of pressure)

German

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German bar.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -a???

Adjective

bar (not comparable)

  1. bare

Declension

Adverb

bar

  1. in cash
  2. pure

Preposition

bar

  1. (+genitive) without

Synonyms

  • ohne

Gothic

Romanization

bar

  1. Romanization of ????????????

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pa?r/
  • Rhymes: -a?r

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bar (1), from Old French barre.

Noun

bar m (genitive singular bars, nominative plural barir)

  1. bar (establishment offering alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises)
  2. bar (counter at which such beverages are sold or offered)
  3. (by extension) a counter where a buffet or a specialized kind of food is offered
Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bar (2), from Ancient Greek ????? (báros, “weight”).

Noun

bar n (genitive singular bars, nominative plural bör)

  1. bar (unit of pressure)
Declension

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bar, from Ancient Greek ????? (báros, “weight”).

Noun

bar m (genitive singular bair, nominative plural bair)

  1. bar (unit of pressure)

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

  • "bar" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • Entries containing “bar” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English bar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?bar/

Noun

bar m (plural bar)

  1. bar (place serving drinks)
  2. café
  3. bar (unit of pressure)

Derived terms

  • barista

Latvian

Verb

bar

  1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of b?rt
  2. 3rd person singular present indicative form of b?rt
  3. 3rd person plural present indicative form of b?rt
  4. 2nd person singular imperative form of b?rt
  5. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of b?rt
  6. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of b?rt

Middle English

Noun

bar

  1. (Northern) Alternative form of bor

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

Related to Persian ???? (bâr).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /b???/
  • Hyphenation: bar
  • Rhymes: -???

Noun

bar m

  1. burden (a heavy load)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse berr and Old Danish bar.

Adjective

bar (neuter singular bart, definite singular and plural bare, comparative barere, indefinite superlative barest, definite superlative bareste)

  1. bare, naked
    • 2014, "Ikke provosèr ham", by Inger Torill Jørgensen, eBokNorden AS ?ISBN [4]
Derived terms
  • barbeint
  • barbrystet

See also

  • berr (Nynorsk)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bar.

Noun

bar m (definite singular baren, indefinite plural barer, definite plural barene)

  1. a bar (place where alcohol is served)
  2. a bar (sandbank at the mouth of a river or harbour)
Related terms
  • bartender (sense 1)

Etymology 3

From Old Norse barr.

Noun

bar n (definite singular baret, uncountable)

  1. the needles of the conifers, twigs and branches of conifers
Derived terms
  • barskog
  • bartre

Etymology 4

From Ancient Greek ????? (báros, “weight”).

Noun

bar m (definite singular baren, indefinite plural bar, definite plural barene)

  1. bar (a non-SI unit of pressure)
Derived terms
  • millibar

Etymology 5

Verb

bar

  1. simple past of bære

References

  • “bar” in The Bokmål Dictionary. (adjective on page 2)
  • “bar_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
  • “bar_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
  • “bar_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
  • “bar_4” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
  • “bar_5” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /b??r/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

Verb

bar

  1. past tense of bera

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bar.

Noun

bar m (definite singular baren, indefinite plural barar, definite plural barane)

  1. a bar (place where alcohol is served)
  2. a bar (sandbank at the mouth of a river or harbour)

Related terms

  • bartender (sense 1)

Etymology 3

From Ancient Greek ????? (báros, “weight”), coined circa 1900.

Noun

bar m (definite singular baren, indefinite plural barar, definite plural barane)

  1. bar (a non-SI unit of pressure)
Derived terms
  • kilobar
  • megabar
  • millibar
Related terms
  • isobar

Etymology 4

From Old Norse barr.

Noun

bar n (definite singular baret, uncountable)

  1. the needles of the conifers, twigs and branches of conifers
    • 1860, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, "Vaaren":
      Derfor eg fann millom Bjørkar og Bar i Vaaren ei Gaata […]
      Therefore I found, between the birches and conifers, in spring a riddle […]
Derived terms
  • barskog
  • bartre
  • granbar

Etymology 5

Adjective

bar (masculine and feminine bar, neuter bart, definite singular and plural bare, comparative barare, indefinite superlative barast, definite superlative baraste)

  1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by berr
  2. form removed with the spelling reform of 1938; superseded by berr

References

  • “bar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bairaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /b??r/

Noun

b?r m

  1. boar

Declension

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ba?, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bar/

Adjective

bar

  1. bare

Descendants

  • Middle High German: bar
    • German: bar, baar
    • Yiddish: ????????? (parev)
      • ? English: parev, pareve

Old Norse

Verb

bar

  1. first/third-person singular past indicative active of bera

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ba?, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz.

Adjective

b?r

  1. bare

Declension


Descendants

  • Middle Low German: bâr
    • German Low German: baar

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse *barr (Old West Norse berr), from Proto-Germanic *bazaz.

Adjective

bar

  1. bare

Declension

Descendants

  • Swedish: bar

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bar/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bar.

Noun

bar m inan

  1. bar, luncheon bar, buffet
  2. bar (a long table or counter where drinks are served)
Declension
Derived terms
  • barowy
Related terms
  • barman

Etymology 2

From Latin barium.

Noun

bar m inan

  1. barium
Declension

Etymology 3

From Ancient Greek ????? (báros, “weight”), probably borrowed via science literature in another European language.

Noun

bar m inan

  1. bar (unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals)
Declension

Further reading

  • bar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /?ba?/
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /?ba?/
    • (Caipira) IPA(key): [?ba?], [?ba?]
    • (South Brazil) IPA(key): [?ba?], [?ba?]
    • (Carioca) IPA(key): [?ba?]
    • (Nordestino) IPA(key): [?bah]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bar.

Noun

bar m (plural bares)

  1. pub; bar (establishment that serves alcoholic beverages primarily)

Etymology 2

Originally from Ancient Greek ????? (báros, “weight”).

Noun

bar m (plural bars)

  1. bar (unit of pressure)

Romani

Etymology 1

Noun

bar f (plural bara)

  1. garden
  2. fence
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

  • barr

Noun

bar m (plural bar)

  1. stone

Romanian

Etymology

From French bar.

Noun

bar m (plural bari)

  1. bar

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bâ?r/.

Noun

b?r m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

  1. public house, bar
Declension

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ????? (báros, “weight”), coined circa 1900.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bâ?r/

Noun

b?r m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

  1. bar (unit of pressure)
Declension

Etymology 3

Clipping of bàrem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bâr/

Adverb

b?r (Cyrillic spelling ????)

  1. at least

Etymology 4

From Proto-Slavic *b?r?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bâ?r/

Noun

b?r m (Cyrillic spelling ????) (regional)

  1. foxtail millet (Setaria italica)
    Synonym: m?h?r
  2. pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum)
    Synonyms: kòš?an, bìs?rno pr?so
Declension

References

  • “bar” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
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Somali

Verb

bar

  1. Alternative spelling of baro

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?ba?/, [?ba?]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bar. Doublet of barra.

Noun

bar m (plural bares)

  1. bar, coffee shop, café, pub (an establishment where refreshments and alcohol drinks are served)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bar and this from Ancient Greek ????? (báros, “weight”).

Noun

bar m (plural bares)

  1. bar (unit of pressure)

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /b??r/

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish bar, from Old Norse *barr (Old West Norse berr), from Proto-Germanic *bazaz.

Adjective

bar (comparative barare, superlative barast)

  1. bare, uncovered; not covered by e.g. clothes (about people), fur (about certain animals) or a snow cover (about the ground)
Declension
Derived terms
  • barmark

Etymology 2

See bära.

Verb

bar

  1. past tense of bära.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English bar.

Noun

bar c

  2. a bar, pub; place where mainly alcoholic drinks are served.
  3. a bar, a bar counter
Declension

Etymology 4

Originally from Ancient Greek ????? (báros, “weight

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