baar

• IPA^(key): [bɑːɾ]

From Dutch baren, from Middle Dutch baren, beren, from Old Dutch beran, baran, from Proto-Germanic *beraną. Cognate with German gebären, English to bear.

baar (present baar, present participle barende, past participle gebaar)

1. to give birth to; to bear

• The passive is formed with the irregular past participle gebore. Compare:

  Die vrou het gisteraand ’n kind gebaar. ― The woman bore a child last night.

  Die kind is gisteraand gebore. ― The child was born last night.

From Dutch baar, from Middle Dutch bâre, from Old Dutch *bāra, from Proto-Germanic *bērō, derived from etymology 1. Cognate with German Bahre, English bier.

baar (plural bare)

1. stretcher; litter; bier.

From Dutch baar, from Middle Dutch bâre. Possibly identical with etymology 2.

baar (plural bare)

1. big wave; breaker.

• brander

From Dutch baar, from Middle Dutch bare, from Old French barre. Cognate with German Barren, English bar.

baar (plural bare)

1. bar (of metal)

From Malay baru (“new”), in part directly, in part through the Dutch nominalisation baar (“newcomer”).

baar (attributive bare, comparative baarder, superlative baarste)

1. inexperienced

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

From Middle High German wār, from Old High German wār, from Proto-West Germanic *wār (“true”). Cognate with German wahr, Dutch waar, German Low German wahr, West Frisian wier.

baar

1. (Sette Comuni) true

   De khimmest, is baar?

   You're coming, right?

   (literally, “You come, is true?”)

• baarot

• “baar” 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

From Proto-Germanic *barną (“child”); compare Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌽 (barn). The form baar may be a misprint for barn. Alternatively, -rn may have been simplified to -r, as it was in some dialects of High German; compare Luxembourgish Kär, Dar.

baar

1. child or boy
   • 1589, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, letter:

     Baar. Puer.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Other scripts
Cyrillic	баарь
Roman	baar

From Persian بهار (bahâr).

baar

1. spring

   Synonyms: ilkbaar, bahar

   • 1987, Сеитумер Эмин [Latin: Seitümer Emin], “Сенинъ кулюшинъ [Latin: Seniñ külüşiñ, Your laughter]”, in Меним сесим [Latin: Menim sesim, My voice], Tashkent: Гъафур Гъулам адына эдебият ве санат нешрияты [Latin: Ğafur Ğulam adına edebiyat ve sanat neşriyatı], pages 51-52:

     Меним чечегим, аязлы къышларда, / язда / ве кузьде, баарьде, / акъшам / ве саба, / куньдюз / ве гедже / даима ача, / къокъулар сача.

     Menim çeçegim, ayazlı qışlarda, / yazda / ve küzde, / baarde, / aqşam / ve saba, / kündüz / ve gece / daima aça, / qoqular saça.

     My flower, in frosty winters, / in summer / and in autumn, / in spring, / in the evening / and in morning, / during day / and at night / [it] always blooms, / [it] emits fragrance.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Refat Çaylaq, Yarım asır [Half-century]:

     Йыллар отти, келип-кечти баарьлер, / Дуймай къалдым, яшым еткен эллиге.

     Yıllar ötti, kelip-keçti baarler, / Duymay qaldım, yaşım etken ellige.

     Years passed, springs came and left, / I didn't notice I turned fifty.

   • 2024 October 23, “Qırımda Yuqarı Şuma civarındaki göl artıq suvğa tolmay — ülkeşınas [The lake near Yuqarı Şuma in Crimea is no longer filled with water — area studies expert]”, in Qırım.Aqıqat‎^[1], archived from the original on 7 January 2025:

     Bundan soñ, uzun yağanaqlardan soñ, suv tek qışnıñ soñunda, baarniñ başında sıq-sıq peyda ola edi, amma şimdi bu da yoq.

     After this, water only appeared in the end of winter or in the beginning of spring after long precipitation, but now even this doesn't happen.

Seasons in Crimean Tatar · mevsimler (layout · text) · category
baar (“spring”)	yaz (“summer”)	küz (“autumn”)	qış (“winter”)

• “baar”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

• IPA^(key): /baːr/

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• Hyphenation: baar
• Rhymes: -aːr
• Homophone: Bahr

From Middle Dutch bâre, from Old Dutch bier, from Proto-West Germanic *bērō, from Proto-Germanic *bērō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Beere (“stretcher, bier”), English bier, German Bahre (“bier, stretcher”).

baar f (plural baren, diminutive baartje n)

1. a bier, a stretcher, a litter; a device used to carry someone or something, especially wounded or dead people

   Synonyms: draagbaar, brancard

2. a bed on which a dead person is displayed before he is buried

   Synonyms: lijkbaar, lijkbed

   • 1922, Albert Verwey, De weg van het licht, De Gerichte Wil:

     Wanneer ik stierf en zij die mij beminden / Rondom mijn baar staan en de een d’andre vraagt:

     When I died and those that loved me / stand around my dead bed and one asks the other:

• baarkleed
• draagbaar
• lijkbaar
• opbaren
• rosbaar

• → Papiamentu: baar (dated)

From Middle Dutch bare, from Old French barre.

baar f (plural baren, diminutive baartje n)

1. a bar, an ingot (of gold or another metal)
2. (obsolete) a bar, a beam

   Synonyms: boom, staaf

• goudbaar

From Middle Dutch bare, from Old Dutch *bāra, from Proto-West Germanic *bārā, from Proto-Germanic *bērǭ (“wave, billow”).

Cognate with West Frisian baar, Middle Low German bâre (“wave”), Old Norse bára (“wave, undulation, uneven surface”) (whence Middle English bare (“wave, billow”), English bore (“tidal wave”)).

baar f (plural baren, diminutive baartje n)

1. (poetic, archaic, mostly used in the plural) a wave

   Synonym: golf

   • 1716, H.K. Poot, Mengeldichten, Die spade komt ook.:

     Ulisses zworf weleer op wilde woeste baren,/ Minerves wreeden wrok en wrange wraek ten doel,

     Ulisses roamed on wild violent waves, towards Minerva’s cruel anger and bitter revenge

• Afrikaans: baar
• Negerhollands: baeren

Related to bar (“bare”).

baar (not comparable)

1. said of money; cash

   Ik heb geen baar geld bij me.

   I have no cash on me.

Declension of baar
uninflected	baar
inflected	bare
comparative	—
		positive
predicative/adverbial		baar
indefinite	m./f. sing.	bare
	n. sing.	baar
	plural	bare
definite		bare
partitive		baars

Borrowed from Malay baru.

baar m (plural baren, diminutive baartje n)

1. (historical, nautical or relating to Indonesia, Netherlands) greenhorn, newbie
   • 1930 August 3, Si Omong, "Baren en... baren.", Algemeen Handelsblad, ochtendblad, page 12.

     Een leergierige baar wil gedurende het eerste etmaal van zijn verblijf op Java alles zien, alles weten, alles proeven.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1932, Uit de eerste marinejaren van Dirk Jan, Batteljee & Terpstra, page 48 & 49:

     Bovendien werden de baren daardoor in korten tijd scheeps- en »marine«-wijs gemaakt, leerden de taal en de gebruiken van hun nieuwe wereld en praatten in weinig tijds mee als de besten over »snerfnimf« en »galjoenkapitein«, over »pluimgraaf« en »waschteef« zowel als over »Droge«, »Puist« en »Poen«, over »Clovis« en »Bakkertje« en over de »fielten« en »bokken« hunner dagelijksche omgeving.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• orang-baar
• baroe

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

baar

1. inflection of baren:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “baar¹”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “baar²”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “baar³”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “baar⁴”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “baar⁷”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “baar⁸”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

• IPA^(key): /ˈb̥ɑːr/, [ˈb̥ɑːr]

From English bar.

baar (genitive baari, partitive baari)

1. bar, pub

Declension of baar (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		baar	baarid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	baari
genitive			baaride
partitive		baari	baare baarisid
illative		baari baarisse	baaridesse baaresse
inessive		baaris	baarides baares
elative		baarist	baaridest baarest
allative		baarile	baaridele baarele
adessive		baaril	baaridel baarel
ablative		baarilt	baaridelt baarelt
translative		baariks	baarideks baareks
terminative		baarini	baarideni
essive		baarina	baaridena
abessive		baarita	baarideta
comitative		baariga	baaridega

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

baar (genitive baari, partitive baari)

1. bar (unit of pressure)

Declension of baar (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		baar	baarid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	baari
genitive			baaride
partitive		baari	baare baarisid
illative		baari baarisse	baaridesse baaresse
inessive		baaris	baarides baares
elative		baarist	baaridest baarest
allative		baarile	baaridele baarele
adessive		baaril	baaridel baarel
ablative		baarilt	baaridelt baarelt
translative		baariks	baarideks baareks
terminative		baarini	baarideni
essive		baarina	baaridena
abessive		baarita	baarideta
comitative		baariga	baaridega

• baar in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

From Old Irish barr (“top”),^[1] from Proto-Celtic *barros.

baar m (genitive singular baar, plural baaryn)

1. crop, yield

From Middle High German and Old High German bar. Compare German bar, English bare.

baar

1. bare
2. naked

From Early Medieval Latin badō, badāre. Compare Old French beer, baer, whence French bayer (“to gape”).

baar (obsolete)

1. to be still with the mouth hanging open; to gape
   • c. 1351–1400, Francesco di Vannozzo, Rime, section 148.259:

     Mo s'io fossi riscosso — de mia monoia, / io averia mazur voglia / d'aconzarmi la moglia — a rasonare / e dire e dare e baare — e stare em banca / con l'oca bianca — e con la starna grassa.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (figurative) to be amazed, dumbfounded
   • 13th century, Caducità della vita umana, lines 232–236:

     « […] que è de ’st’ om ke no fi sepellì? / Çà par se golça de lo fiiol me’ / k’el sapa tuto quant ell’ è de re’; / la çento baa e vol tornar en dre’; / or fia sepellì tost{o} per l’amor De’».

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “baare”, in TLIO – Tesoro della lingua italiana delle origini

From Middle English baar, from Old English bær, from Proto-West Germanic *baʀ.

• baare

• IPA^(key): /baːr/

baar

1. bare
   • 1927, “LAMENT OF A WIDOW”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 130, line 3:

     Or to a baar walles o Laady's Ilone?

     Or to the bare walls of Lady's Island.

baar

1. alternative form of ber (“to bear”)
   • 1927, “ZONG O DHREE YOLA MYTHENS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 131, line 5:

     Wu canna baar to gow aveel,

     We cannot bear to go abroad,

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927), “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series)‎^[2], volume 17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 130 & 131