Meaning of word bar

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Bar or BAR may refer to:

Food and drink[edit]

• Bar (establishment), selling alcoholic beverages
• Candy bar
• Chocolate bar

Science and technology[edit]

• Bar (river morphology), a deposit of sediment
• Bar (tropical cyclone), a layer of cloud
• Bar (unit), a unit of pressure
• BAR domain, a protein domain
• Bar stock, of metal
• Sandbar

Computing[edit]

• Bar (computer science), a placeholder
• Base Address Register in PCI
• Bar, a mobile phone form factor
• Bar, a type of graphical control element

Law[edit]

• Bar (law), the legal profession
• Bar association
• Bar examination

Media and entertainment[edit]

• Bar (Croatian TV series)
• Bar (Czech TV series)
• Bar (dance), Turkey
• Bar (music), a segment
• Bar (Polish TV series)
• Bar (Slovenian TV series)
• Bay Area Reporter, a newspaper
• Biblical Archaeology Review, a magazine
• «Bar» (song), by Tini and L-Gante

Places[edit]

• Bar (Martian crater)
• Bar, Rutog County, Tibet, China
• Bar (river), France
• Bar, Corrèze, France, a commune
• Bar-le-Duc, France, a commune formerly Bar, Meuse
• Bar-sur-Aube, France, a commune
• Bar-sur-Seine, France, a commune
• Bár, Hungary, a village
• Bar, Bushehr, Iran, a village
• Bar, Hormozgan, Iran, a village
• Bar, Razavi Khorasan, Iran, a city
• Bar Municipality, Montenegro
  • Bar, Montenegro, a town
• Bar Region, Punjab, Pakistan
• Bar, Republic of Buryatia, Russia
• Bar, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine, a town
• Duchy of Bar, part of the Holy Roman Empire
• Barbados, IOC and UNDP country code BAR

Language[edit]

• Bar (diacritic), a line through a letter
• Bavarian language (ISO 639-3: bar)
• Vertical bar, a punctuation symbol
• X-bar theory, in linguistics

Transportation[edit]

• Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, US, reporting mark
• Barstow station, US, station code
• California Bureau of Automotive Repair, a consumer protection agency
• Qionghai Bo’ao Airport, IATA code

Firearms[edit]

• M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle
• Browning BAR, a Belgian rifle

Other uses[edit]

• Bar (Aramaic), a patronymic prefix in Aramaic
• Bar (heraldry), a band across a shield
• Bar (name)
• Bar Confederation, an 18th-century Polish association
• Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish coming of age ceremony, with «bar» meaning son in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic («ben» in Hebrew)
• Blaauwberg Armoured Regiment, South African Army
• British Archaeological Reports
• British American Racing, a Formula One constructor
• Chin-up bar, playground equipment
• Medal bar, additional award
• Space bar, on a keyboard
• Historical gatehouse
• Bennett acceptance ratio in thermodynamics
• BlackArts Racing Team, a motor racing team from Hong Kong

See also[edit]

• The Bar (disambiguation)
• Barr (disambiguation)
• Barre (disambiguation)
• Bars (disambiguation)
• Bär (disambiguation)
• FUBAR
• All pages with titles beginning with bar
• All pages with titles containing bar

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɑː/
• (General American) enPR: bär, IPA^(key): /bɑɹ/, [bɑɹ], [bɑ˞]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /baː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
• Homophones: baa, bah (in some pronunciations)

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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.

   The window was protected by steel bars.

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.

   Ancient Sparta used iron bars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloy, to physically discourage the use of money.

   We are expecting a carload of bar tomorrow.

3. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.

   bar of chocolate

   bar of soap

4. A broad shaft, band, or stripe.

   a bar of light

   a bar of colour

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 Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.

   Hyponyms: pipe, strikethrough, macron

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 the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
10. A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.

    Synonyms: barroom, ginshop, (British) pub, public house, tavern; see also Thesaurus:pub

    The street was lined with all-night bars.

12. The counter of such premises.

    Synonym: wet bar

    Step up to the bar and order a drink.

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.

    a burger bar

    a local fish bar

17. An establishment offering cosmetic services.

    a nail bar; a brow bar

18. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.

    Synonyms: ban, prohibition

    The club has lifted its bar on women members.

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.

    Suppose we have four objects, foo, bar, baz and quux.

21. (UK, Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
22. (UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
23. (US, Philippines, law, usually with the) The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.

    He’s studying hard to pass the Bar this time; he’s failed it twice before.

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.

    He was called to the bar, he became a barrister.

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.

    I don’t have any bars in the middle of this desert.

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 the high jump and pole vault.
29. (figurative) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
30. (soccer, most codes) The crossbar.

    • 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 — 0 Bolton”, in BBC‎^[1]:

      Composed play then saw Sam Ricketts nutmeg Ashley Cole before Taylor whipped a fine curling effort over Petr Cech’s bar.

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).

    • 1868, “Route 20: London to Tiflis […] ”, in Handbook for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland, Second edition, London: John Murray, page 320:

      Travellers change at Batoum into a steamer which performs the service between that port and Poti, and which has a less draught of water to enable it to cross the bar of the river Rion.

35. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.

    Coordinate terms: barrulet, closet

36. A city gate, in some British place names.

    Temple Bar, London

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.
42. (slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

Translations[edit]

See also[edit]

• (heraldry): Ordinary on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References[edit]

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

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English barren, from Old French barrer,^[1] from Medieval Latin barrare (“to bar”), from the noun. Cognate to Occitan barrar, Spanish barrar, Portuguese barrar.

Preposition properly imperative of the verb. Compare barring.

Verb[edit]

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

2. (transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).

   Our way was barred by a huge rockfall.

   • 1906 August​, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 1, stanza V, page 47:

     ‘One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, I’m after a prize to-night, / But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light; / Yet, if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day, / Then look for me by moonlight, / Watch for me by moonlight, / I’ll come to thee by moonlight, though Hell should bar the way.’

3. (transitive) To prohibit.

   I couldn’t get into the nightclub because I had been barred.

4. (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.

   bar the door

5. To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.

   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 208, column 1:

     I lived in a hut in the yard. To be out of the chaos I would sometimes get into the accountant’s office. It was built of horizontal planks, and so badly put together that, as he bent over his high desk, he was barred from neck to heels with narrow strips of sunlight.

Synonyms[edit]

• (obstruct): block, hinder, obstruct
• (prohibit): ban, interdict, prohibit
• (lock or bolt with a bar):
• See also Thesaurus:hinder

Derived terms[edit]

• outbar
• unbar

Descendants[edit]

• → Esperanto: bari

Translations[edit]

Preposition[edit]

bar

1. Except, other than, besides.

   Synonyms: apart from, barring, except for, excepting, excluding, other than, save; see also Thesaurus:except

   He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife.

   • 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter I, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, page 5:

     «I might be a fool,» the younger man admitted quietly, «even an idiot, but there’s not a person living, bar you, who possess the courage to call me a weakling, Sir.»

   • 2019 October, Philip Sherratt, “Midland Main Line upgrade presses on”, in Modern Railways, page 62:

     These see the overhead wires installed on all bar the slow lines between Bedford and Wellingborough by next May, with the remaining section completed by August, when the full programme is due to be completed.

2. (horse racing) Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.

   Leg At Each Corner is at 3/1, Lost My Shirt 5/1, and it’s 10/1 bar.

Derived terms[edit]

• bar none
• all over bar the shouting

Translations[edit]

References[edit]

• 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, page 446.

Etymology 3[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

bar (plural bars)

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

Synonyms[edit]

• ㍴

Derived terms[edit]

• decibar
• kilobar
• megabar
• millibar

[edit]

• isobar

Descendants[edit]

Translations[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

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

Afar[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌɾ/
• Hyphenation: bar

Noun[edit]

bár m (plural baritté f)

1. night
2. age

Declension[edit]

Declension of bár
absolutive	bár
predicative	bára
subjective	barí
genitive	bartí
Postpositioned forms l-case báral k-case bárak t-case bárat h-case bárah

Derived terms[edit]

• bartikimbir
• bartikimbiró

References[edit]

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “bar”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• 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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Dutch bar.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): [bɑɾ]

Adjective[edit]

bar (attributive barre, comparative barder, superlative barste)

1. barren

References[edit]

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

Albanian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Proto-Albanian *bara, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to cure (with spells or herbs)”), compare Ancient Greek φάρμακον (phármakon, “drug, medicine”), Lithuanian bùrti (“to conjure”), Latvian burt (“to conjure, practice magic”), Latvian burts (“letter, font”).^[1]

Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *bʰars- (“spike, prickle”), *bʰers- (“top, tip, point”), compare Welsh bara (“bread”), Old Norse barr (“corn, grain, barley”), Latin far (“spelt”), Serbo-Croatian brȁšno.^[2]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /baɾ/

Noun[edit]

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

1. grass
2. (figurative) tasteless food

Declension[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

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

1. medicine, medication, medicinal plant; mineral (see Lat. magnes in Frang Bardhi)
2. (figurative, colloquial) cure, palliative, solution
3. (figurative, colloquial) marijuana, likely a calque from English or French

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

• barna
• barnatore
• barnatar
• barnashitës
• barni
• barngrënës
• barishte
• barishtor
• barishtak

References[edit]

Azerbaijani[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Persian بار.

Noun[edit]

bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)

1. fruit

   Synonym: meyvə

2. crop, harvest, yield

   Synonym: məhsul

3. (figurative) fruit (an end result, effect, or consequence)

   Synonym: bəhrə

4. (archaic) burden

   Synonym: yük

Etymology 2[edit]

Ultimately from English bar.

Noun[edit]

bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)

1. bar (a business selling alcoholic drinks)

Etymology 3[edit]

Internationalism; ultimately from French bar, from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros).

Noun[edit]

bar

1. (meteorology) bar (unit of pressure)

Declension[edit]

Declension of bar
	singular	plural
nominative	bar	barlar
definite accusative	barı	barları
dative	bara	barlara
locative	barda	barlarda
ablative	bardan	barlardan
definite genitive	barın	barların

Possessive forms of bar
	nominative
singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	barım	barlarım
sənin (“your”)	barın	barların
onun (“his/her/its”)	barı	barları
bizim (“our”)	barımız	barlarımız
sizin (“your”)	barınız	barlarınız
onların (“their”)	barı or barları	barları
	accusative
singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	barımı	barlarımı
sənin (“your”)	barını	barlarını
onun (“his/her/its”)	barını	barlarını
bizim (“our”)	barımızı	barlarımızı
sizin (“your”)	barınızı	barlarınızı
onların (“their”)	barını or barlarını	barlarını
	dative
singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	barıma	barlarıma
sənin (“your”)	barına	barlarına
onun (“his/her/its”)	barına	barlarına
bizim (“our”)	barımıza	barlarımıza
sizin (“your”)	barınıza	barlarınıza
onların (“their”)	barına or barlarına	barlarına
	locative
singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	barımda	barlarımda
sənin (“your”)	barında	barlarında
onun (“his/her/its”)	barında	barlarında
bizim (“our”)	barımızda	barlarımızda
sizin (“your”)	barınızda	barlarınızda
onların (“their”)	barında or barlarında	barlarında
	ablative
singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	barımdan	barlarımdan
sənin (“your”)	barından	barlarından
onun (“his/her/its”)	barından	barlarından
bizim (“our”)	barımızdan	barlarımızdan
sizin (“your”)	barınızdan	barlarınızdan
onların (“their”)	barından or barlarından	barlarından
	genitive
singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	barımın	barlarımın
sənin (“your”)	barının	barlarının
onun (“his/her/its”)	barının	barlarının
bizim (“our”)	barımızın	barlarımızın
sizin (“your”)	barınızın	barlarınızın
onların (“their”)	barının or barlarının	barlarının

Further reading[edit]

• “bar” in Obastan.com.

Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French barre.

Noun[edit]

bar m (plural bars)

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

Cimbrian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• biar (Luserna)

Etymology[edit]

From Middle High German wir, from Old High German wir, from Proto-West Germanic *wiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *wīz.

Pronoun[edit]

bar

1. (Sette Comuni) we

   Synonym: bandare

   Bar zeinan bèllase. ― We are Italians.

   Bar zeinda. ― We are here.

   Bar habanze galummet. ― We took them.

Inflection[edit]

References[edit]

• “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[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Proto-Turkic *bār.

Predicative[edit]

bar

1. there is, there are, indicates existence or possession

   Antonym: yoq

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

bar

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

Czech[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /bar/

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from English bar.

Noun[edit]

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[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

bar m

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

Declension[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• bar in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• bar in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Dalmatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin bibere.

Verb[edit]

bar (second-person plural present baite)

1. to drink

Danish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaːˀr/, [ˈb̥ɑˀ]
• Rhymes: -aːˀr

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Adjective[edit]

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

1. bare, naked
2. sheer, pure

Derived terms[edit]

• bare
• barbenet
• barfodet
• barfrost
• barhovedet
• min bare røv

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from English bar.

Noun[edit]

bar c (singular definite baren, plural indefinite barer)

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

Declension[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

bar c (singular definite baren, plural indefinite bar)

1. bar (unit of pressure)

Declension[edit]

Etymology 4[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb[edit]

bar

1. past tense of bære

Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /bɑr/
• Hyphenation: Dutch
• Rhymes: -ɑr

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from English bar.

Noun[edit]

bar m (plural bars, diminutive barretje n)

1. A bar, counter, drink cabinet.
2. A bar, pub serving alcohol.

Derived terms[edit]

-types of establishment

Descendants[edit]

• → Caribbean Javanese: bar
• → Indonesian: bar

Etymology 2[edit]

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

Adjective[edit]

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[edit]

Inflection of bar
uninflected	bar
inflected	barre
comparative	barder
	positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial	bar	barder	het barst het barste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	barre	bardere	barste
n. sing.	bar	barder	barste
plural	barre	bardere	barste
definite	barre	bardere	barste
partitive	bars	barders	—

Derived terms[edit]

• barkoud
• barslecht

Etymology 3[edit]

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

Adverb[edit]

bar

1. extremely (only in a negative sense)

Etymology 4[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

bar

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

Derived terms[edit]

• kilobar
• megabar
• millibar

[edit]

• isobaar

Descendants[edit]

• → Indonesian: bar

References[edit]

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

Faroese[edit]

Verb[edit]

bar

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

Conjugation[edit]

Conjugation of bera (group v-54)
infinitive	bera
supine	borið
participle (a26)1	berandi	borin
	present	past
first singular	beri	bar
second singular	bert	bart
third singular	ber	bar
plural	bera	bóru
	imperative
singular	ber!
plural	berið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

Derived terms[edit]

• [[hetta bar ikki til#Faroese|hetta bar ikki til]] (“this wasn’t possible”)

French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /baʁ/
• Rhymes: -aʁ

Etymology 1[edit]

From English bar. Doublet of barre.

Noun[edit]

bar m

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

Derived terms[edit]

• bar laitier
• pilier de bar
• resto-bar

Descendants[edit]

• → Romanian: bar

Etymology 2[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

bar m

1. bass (fish)

Derived terms[edit]

• bar commun
• bar européen

Further reading[edit]

• “bar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from English bar.

Noun[edit]

bar m (plural bares)

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

Etymology 2[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

bar m (plural bares)

1. bar (unit of pressure)

German[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• Rhymes: -aːɐ̯

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle High German and Old High German bar.

Adjective[edit]

bar (not comparable)

1. bare

Declension[edit]

Adverb[edit]

bar

1. in cash
2. pure

Preposition[edit]

bar

1. (+genitive) without

   Synonyms: ohne, sonder, außer, ausschließlich

Etymology 2[edit]

Determiner[edit]

bar (invariable)

1. Obsolete form of paar (“a few, couple”).

Further reading[edit]

• “bar” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “bar” in Duden online

Gothic[edit]

Romanization[edit]

bar

1. Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐍂

Icelandic[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /paːr/
• Rhymes: -aːr

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

bar n (genitive singular bars, nominative plural bör)

1. bar (unit of pressure)

Declension[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

Verb[edit]

bar

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

Indonesian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): [ˈbar]
• Hyphenation: Indonesian

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

bar (first-person possessive barku, second-person possessive barmu, third-person possessive barnya)

1. bar, pub: an establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.

Etymology 2[edit]

From Dutch bar, from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”), coined c. 1900.

Noun[edit]

bar (first-person possessive barku, second-person possessive barmu, third-person possessive barnya)

1. (physics) bar: a non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.

Further reading[edit]

• “bar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
• “bar” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

bar m (genitive singular bair, nominative plural bair)

1. bar (unit of pressure)

Declension[edit]

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bar	bhar	mbar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading[edit]

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “bar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “bar” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English bar.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈbar/
• Rhymes: -ar
• Hyphenation: bàr

Noun[edit]

bar m

1. bar (place serving drinks)

   C’è un bar qui vicino? ― Is there a bar nearby?

2. café
3. bar (unit of pressure)

Derived terms[edit]

• barista

Latvian[edit]

Verb[edit]

bar

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

Marshallese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [pˠɑrˠ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /pˠærˠ/
• Bender phonemes: {bar}

Adjective[edit]

bar

1. empty

Adverb[edit]

bar

1. again
2. also
3. more

Determiner[edit]

bar

1. more

Noun[edit]

bar

1. head
2. rock
3. top; tip

References[edit]

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

bar

1. (Northern) Alternative form of bor

Northern Kurdish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Related to Persian بار (bâr).

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /bɑːɾ/
• Hyphenation: Northern Kurdish
• Rhymes: -ɑːɾ

Noun[edit]

bar m

1. burden (a heavy load)

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Norse berr and Old Danish bar.

Adjective[edit]

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]

     Han kom tettere inn til henne, la armen rundt ryggen hennes og bøyet hodet sitt ned mot hennes bare skulder, kysset den.

     He came closer to her, put his arm around her back and bowed his head down to her bare shoulder, and kissed it.

Derived terms[edit]

• barbeint
• barbrystet

See also[edit]

• berr (Nynorsk)

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from English bar.

Noun[edit]

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)

[edit]

• bartender (sense 1)

Etymology 3[edit]

From Old Norse barr.

Noun[edit]

bar n (definite singular baret, uncountable)

1. the needles of the conifers, twigs and branches of conifers

Derived terms[edit]

• barskog
• bartre

Etymology 4[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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

1. bar (a non-SI unit of pressure)

Derived terms[edit]

• millibar

Etymology 5[edit]

Verb[edit]

bar

1. simple past of bære

References[edit]

• “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[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /bɑːr/

Etymology 1[edit]

Verb[edit]

bar

1. past tense of bera

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from English bar.

Noun[edit]

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)

[edit]

• bartender (sense 1)

Etymology 3[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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

1. bar (a non-SI unit of pressure)

Derived terms[edit]

• kilobar
• megabar
• millibar

[edit]

• isobar

Etymology 4[edit]

From Old Norse barr.

Noun[edit]

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[edit]

• barskog
• bartre
• granbar

Etymology 5[edit]

Adjective[edit]

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

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of berr
2. (pre-1938) alternative form of berr

References[edit]

• “bar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-West Germanic *bair.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /bɑːr/

Noun[edit]

bār m

1. boar

Declension[edit]

Synonyms[edit]

• eofor

Descendants[edit]

• Middle English: bor (see there for further descendants)

Old High German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /bar/

Adjective[edit]

bar

1. bare

Descendants[edit]

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

Old Irish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /var/

Determiner[edit]

bar

1. Alternative form of for (“your pl”)

Old Norse[edit]

Verb[edit]

bar

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

Old Saxon[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz.

Adjective[edit]

bār

1. bare

Declension[edit]

Descendants[edit]

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

Old Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Adjective[edit]

bar

1. bare

Declension[edit]

Descendants[edit]

• Swedish: bar

Polish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /bar/
• Rhymes: -ar
• Syllabification: bar

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from English bar.

Noun[edit]

bar m inan (diminutive barek)

1. bar, luncheon bar, buffet
2. bar (a long table or counter where drinks are served)

   Synonym: bufet

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

[edit]

• barman

Etymology 2[edit]

From Latin barium.

Noun[edit]

Chemical element
Ba
Previous: cez (Cs)
Next: lantan (La)

bar m inan

1. barium

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).

Noun[edit]

bar m inan

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

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• bar in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bar in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Caipira Brazil) IPA^(key): [ˈbaɹ], [ˈbaɻ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: Portuguese

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from English bar.^[1][2]

Noun[edit]

bar m (plural bares)

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

Etymology 2[edit]

Originally from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).^[1][2]

Noun[edit]

bar m (plural bares)

1. bar (unit of pressure)

References[edit]

Romani[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀯𑀸𑀟 (vāḍa), from Sanskrit वाट (vāṭa)^[1][2] or Sanskrit वाटी (vāṭī)^[2].

Noun[edit]

bar f (plural barǎ)

1. enclosure

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

bar m (plural bara)

1. Alternative form of barr

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• Marcel Courthiade (2009), “i/e bar I, -ǎ- ʒ. -ǎ, -ěn-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (in Hungarian; English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház—Romano Kher, →ISBN, pages 73-74

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French bar.

Noun[edit]

bar m (plural bari)

1. bar

Declension[edit]

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from English bar.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /bâːr/.

Noun[edit]

bȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ба̑р)

1. public house, bar

Declension[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /bâːr/

Noun[edit]

bȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ба̑р)

1. bar (unit of pressure)

Declension[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

Clipping of bàrem.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /bâr/

Adverb[edit]

bȁr (Cyrillic spelling ба̏р)

1. at least

Etymology 4[edit]

From Proto-Slavic *bъrъ.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /bâːr/

Noun[edit]

bȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ба̑р) (regional)

1. foxtail millet (Setaria italica)

   Synonym: mȕhār

2. pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum)

   Synonyms: kòšćan, bìsērno prȍso

Declension[edit]

References[edit]

• “bar” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• “bar” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• “bar” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• “bar” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovene[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from English bar.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /báːr/.

Noun[edit]

bȃr m inan

1. public house, bar

Inflection[edit]

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	bȃr
gen. sing.	bȃra
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	bȃr	bȃra	bȃri
genitive (rodȋlnik)	bȃra	bȃrov	bȃrov
dative (dajȃlnik)	bȃru	bȃroma	bȃrom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	bȃr	bȃra	bȃre
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	bȃru	bȃrih	bȃrih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	bȃrom	bȃroma	bȃri

Etymology 2[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /báːr/

Noun[edit]

bȃr m inan

1. bar (unit of pressure)

Inflection[edit]

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	bȃr
gen. sing.	bȃra
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	bȃr	bȃra	bȃri
genitive (rodȋlnik)	bȃra	bȃrov	bȃrov
dative (dajȃlnik)	bȃru	bȃroma	bȃrom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	bȃr	bȃra	bȃre
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	bȃru	bȃrih	bȃrih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	bȃrom	bȃroma	bȃri

Etymology 3[edit]

Considering its Ottoman Turkish origin and smaller frequency, from Serbo-Croatian bȁr.

Alternative forms[edit]

• barem, baren

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /báːr/

Adverb[edit]

bȃr

1. at least

   Synonym: vsaj

2. even though

   Synonym: čeprav

3. otherwise, for else

   Synonym: sicer

Etymology 4[edit]

From Proto-Slavic *bъrъ.

Alternative forms[edit]

• ber, bȋr

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /báːr/

Noun[edit]

bȃr m inan

1. foxtail millet (Setaria italica)

   Synonym: laški muhvič

2. pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum)

   Synonym: biserno proso

Inflection[edit]

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	bȃr
genitive	bȃra
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	bȃr
genitive (rodȋlnik)	—
dative (dajȃlnik)	—
accusative (tožȋlnik)	—
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	bȃru
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	bȃrom

Further reading[edit]

• “bar”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Somali[edit]

Verb[edit]

bar

1. Alternative spelling of baro

Spanish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾ/ [ˈbaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: bar

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from English bar. Doublet of barra.

Noun[edit]

bar m (plural bares)

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

Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

bar m (plural bares)

1. bar (unit of pressure)

Further reading[edit]

• “bar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Sumerian[edit]

Romanization[edit]

bar

1. Romanization of 𒁇 (bar)

Swedish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /bɑːr/

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Adjective[edit]

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[edit]

Inflection of bar
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative2
Common singular	bar	barare	barast
Neuter singular	bart	barare	barast
Plural	bara	barare	barast
Masculine plural3	bare	barare	barast
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular1	bare	barare	baraste
All	bara	barare	baraste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic

Derived terms[edit]

• barmark

Etymology 2[edit]

See bära.

Verb[edit]

bar

1. past tense of bära.

Etymology 3[edit]

Unadapted borrowing from English bar.

Noun[edit]

bar c

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

Declension[edit]

Declension of bar
	Singular	Plural
Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	bar	baren	barer	barerna
Genitive	bars	barens	barers	barernas

Descendants[edit]

• → Finnish: baari

Etymology 4[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

bar c

1. A bar; a unit of pressure

References[edit]

• bar in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams[edit]

• bra

Tagalog[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English bar.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾ/, [ˈbaɾ]

Noun[edit]

bar

1. bar (business selling alcoholic drinks)

   Synonyms: inuman, barikan, taberna

2. (law) bar exam
3. iron or steel bar

   Synonym: baras

Derived terms[edit]

• magbar

Traveller Norwegian[edit]

Noun[edit]

bar

1. a stone

See also[edit]

• haling

Turkish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /bɑɾ/

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from Armenian պար (par, “dance”).

Noun[edit]

bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)

1. (dialectal) dance, round dance

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from English bar.

Noun[edit]

bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)

1. bar, pub

Etymology 3[edit]

From Ottoman Turkish بار‎ (bar), from Armenian փառ (pʿaṙ).

Noun[edit]

bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)

1. (dialectal) dirt, dust

Etymology 4[edit]

Ultimately from Ancient Greek weight.

Noun[edit]

bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)

1. (unit of pressure) bar

Declension[edit]

Inflection
Nominative	bar
Definite accusative	barı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bar	barlar
Definite accusative	barı	barları
Dative	bara	barlara
Locative	barda	barlarda
Ablative	bardan	barlardan
Genitive	barın	barların

References[edit]

• Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay (1971–1979), “պար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• “bar”, in Türkiye’de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982

Wakhi[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Iranian *dwā́ram, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰwā́ram, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer-. Related to Persian در (dar).

Noun[edit]

bar

1. door

Zazaki[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Related to Persian بار (bâr).

Noun[edit]

bar ?

1. load, burden