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English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sp??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /sp??/, [sp??], [sp??]
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: spa (in non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1

From Middle English sparre (“spar, rafter, beam”) (noun), sparren (“to close, bar”) (verb), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sparrô (“stake, beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)par- (“beam, log”). Compare Dutch spar (“balk”), German Sparren (“rafter, spar”), Danish sparre (“spar”), Albanian shparr, shpardh (“kind of oak”). Perhaps also compare spear, park.

Noun

spar (plural spars)

1. A rafter of a roof.
2. A thick pole or piece of wood.
3. (obsolete) A bar of wood used to fasten a door.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11:

     The Prince staid not his aunswere to devize, / But, opening streight the Sparre, forth to him came […].

4. (nautical) Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
5. (aeronautics) A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.

Derived terms

• spar buoy
• spar deck
• spar torpedo

Translations

Verb

spar (third-person singular simple present spars, present participle sparring, simple past and past participle sparred)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) to bolt, bar.
2. (transitive) To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.

Derived terms

• oversparred, undersparred

Etymology 2

From Middle English sparren (“to dart out; to strike out”), from Old English sperran, spirran, spyrran (“to strike, strike out at, spar”), related to Low German sparre (“a struggling, striving”), German sich sperren (“to struggle, resist, oppose”), Icelandic sperrask (“to kick out at, thrust, struggle”).

Verb

spar (third-person singular simple present spars, present participle sparring, simple past and past participle sparred)

1. To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
2. To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
3. To contest in words; to wrangle.

Translations

Noun

spar (plural spars)

1. A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.

Etymology 3

From Middle Low German spar, sper (“spar”); or from a backformation of sparstone (“spar”), from Middle English sparston (“gypsum, chalk”), from Old English spærst?n (“gypsum”). Related to German Sparkalk (“plaster”), Old English spæren (“of plaster, of mortar”).

Noun

spar (countable and uncountable, plural spars)

2. (mineralogy) Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.
3. (mineralogy) Any crystal with readily discernible faces.

Descendants

• ? Irish: sparra
• ? Welsh: sbar

Translations

Anagrams

• APRs, Arps, PSRA, RAPs, arps, pars, raps, rasp, sapr-

Danish

Etymology 1

From Spanish espada (“sword”), from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek ????? (spáth?, “blade”).

Noun

spar c (singular definite sparen, plural indefinite sparer)

1. spade (one of the black suits in a deck of cards)

Inflection

Etymology 2

See spare (“to save,spare”).

Verb

spar

1. imperative of spare

See also

• spar on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• Spar (kulør) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch sparre (“pole, beam”), from Old Dutch *sparro, from Frankish *sparro, from Proto-Germanic *sparrô. Cognate to West Frisian spjir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp?r/
• Hyphenation: spar
• Rhymes: -?r

Noun

spar m (plural sparren, diminutive sparretje n)

1. spruce; certain tree of the family Pinaceae, especially of the genus Picea, but also used for trees of the genera Abies, Tsuga and Pseudotsuga.

Derived terms

• blauwspar
• douglasspar
• fijnspar
• Nordmannspar
• zilverspar

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pa???]

Verb

spar

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

Icelandic

Adjective

spar (comparative sparari, superlative sparastur)

1. economical
2. thrifty

Declension

Middle English

Verb

spar

1. Alternative form of sparren (“to close”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From German [Term?], from Spanish espadas (“sword”)

Noun

spar

1. spades (suit in playing cards)

Etymology 2

Verb

spar

1. imperative of spare

References

• “spar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From German [Term?], from Spanish espadas (“sword”)

Noun

spar m (definite singular sparen, indefinite plural spar or sparar, definite plural sparane)

1. spades (suit in playing cards)

Etymology 2

Verb

spar

1. present of spa
2. imperative of spara

References

• “spar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Verb

spar

1. present tense of spara.
2. imperative of spara.

Anagrams

• pars, raps

English

Etymology

From Middle English beem, from Old English b?am (“tree, cross, gallows, column, pillar, wood, beam, splint, post, stock, rafter, piece of wood”), from Proto-Germanic *baumaz (“tree, beam, balk”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ew- (“to grow, swell”). Cognate with West Frisian beam (“tree”), Saterland Frisian Boom (“tree”), Dutch boom (“tree”), German Low German Boom (“tree”), German Baum (“tree”), Luxembourgish Bam (“tree”), Albanian bimë (“a plant”). Doublet of boom.

The verb is from Middle English bemen, from Old English b?amian (“to shine, to cast forth rays or beams of light”), from the noun.

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?m, IPA^(key): /bi?m/
• Rhymes: -i?m

Noun

beam (plural beams)

1. Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.

   • And a letter vnto Asaph the keeper of the kings forrest, that he may giue me timber to make beames for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the Citie, and for the house that I shall enter into: And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God vpon me.

2. One of the principal horizontal structural members, usually of timber or concrete, of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame on which the decks are laid — supported at the sides by knees in wooden ships and by stringers in steel ones.
   • 1905, Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle

     Lucie opened the door: and what do you think there was inside the hill?—a nice clean kitchen with a flagged floor and wooden beams—just like any other farm kitchen.

3. (nautical) The maximum width of a vessel (note that a vessel with a beam of 15 foot can also be said to be 15 foot abeam)

   Synonym: breadth

   • 1892, Sydney Marow Eardley-Wilmot, The Development of Navies During the Last Half-Century Chapter 7

     Being only 280 ft. long, with a beam of 66 ft, their speed is moderate, and for a long time difficulty was experienced in steering them.

4. The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
5. The principal stem of the antler of a deer.
6. (literary) The pole of a carriage or chariot.
8. (textiles) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving and the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven.
9. The straight part or shank of an anchor.
10. The central bar of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.
11. In steam engines, a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft.

    Synonyms: working beam, walking beam

12. A ray or collection of approximately parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body.

    a beam of light

    a beam of energy
13. (figuratively) A ray; a gleam.

    a beam of hope, or of comfort
14. One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.

    Synonym: beam feather

15. (music) A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value.
16. (railway) An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.

Hyponyms

• (textiles): fore beam, back beam

See also

• Thesaurus:stick

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

beam (third-person singular simple present beams, present participle beaming, simple past and past participle beamed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To emit beams of light; shine; radiate.

   to beam forth light

2. (intransitive, figuratively) To smile broadly or especially cheerfully.
3. (transitive) To furnish or supply with beams
4. (transitive) To give the appearance of beams to.
5. (transitive, science fiction) To transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism.

   Beam me up, Scotty; there's no intelligent life down here.

   The injured crewmembers were immediately beamed to sickbay.

6. (transitive, currying) To stretch something (for example an animal hide) on a beam.
7. (transitive, weaving) To put (something) on a beam
8. (transitive, music) To connect (musical notes) with a beam, or thick line, in music notation.

Translations

Anagrams

• BAME, Bame, Mabe, ambe, bema, mabe

German

Verb

beam

1. singular imperative of beamen

Old English

Alternative forms

• beom

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *baum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæ???m/

Noun

b?am m (nominative plural b?amas)

1. tree

   Synonyms: tr?ow, wudu

2. beam of wood

   Synonym: bord

   1. gallows, gibbet (hanging device with a crossbeam)

      Synonym: ?ealga

   2. (by extension) the Cross
      • Codex Vercillensis

Declension

Derived terms

• si?eb?am

Descendants

• Middle English: beem
  • Scots: beme
  • English: beam
    • ? German: beamen
    • ? Japanese: ???

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [be?am]

Verb

beam

1. first-person singular imperfect indicative of bea
2. first-person plural imperfect indicative of bea

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian b?m, from Proto-West Germanic *baum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???m/

Noun

beam c (plural beammen, diminutive beamke)

1. tree

Derived terms

• hefbeam

Further reading

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