bar

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Abbreviation of English Bavarian, German Bairisch, or Bavarian Boarisch.

bar

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Bavarian.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Bavarian terms

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɑː/
• (General American) enPR: bär, IPA^(key): /bɑɹ/, [bɑɹ], [bɑ˞]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /baː/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
• Homophones: baa, bah (in some pronunciations)

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

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 combination) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.

    a coffee bar

    a juice bar

15. An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.

    a burger bar

    a local fish bar

16. An establishment offering cosmetic services.

    a nail bar

    a brow bar

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

    Synonyms: ban, prohibition

    The club has lifted its bar on women members.

    • 1959 May, “Accommodation for Non-Smokers”, in Railway Magazine, pages 295-296:

      The Chief Medical Officer of London Transport believes that public opinion against smoking will harden to the point of a total bar on the Underground, as in other countries.

18. Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
    • 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, Act V, page 83:

      Muſt I new bars to my own joy create?

    • 1987 February 1, Nancy A. Coleman, “Foster Care: Case By Case Basis”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 28, page 5:

      Sexual preference or orientation shall not be a bar to becoming a foster parent.

    • 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, 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, metonymic, "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.

    Synonym: measure

27. (music) One of those musical sections.
    1. (slang, hip-hop, chiefly in the plural) Hip-hop lyrics, especially ones written and delivered skillfully.

       That rapper there, yeah, he got bars.

    2. (by extension, slang, chiefly in the plural) Something well-said or well-written.

       Coordinate term: cinema

       • 2025 June 13, “Matt Miggz: Drums, Delusion, and Staying True”, in WAVS BLOG‎^[2]:

         His musical journey, and this is a quote, is “a constant push and pull between self awareness and delusion”. That’s bars right there to be honest.

28. (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
30. (figurative) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome; a standard or expectation.

    to set the bar high/low

    to raise the bar

    • 2020 March 10, Kathy Gilsinan, quoting Eliot Cohen, “Confessions of an Ex–Never Trumper”, in The Atlantic‎^[3]:

      […] there’s no World War III now, but in the words of the prominent Never Trumper and Atlantic contributor Eliot Cohen, “that’s a pretty low bar.”

31. (soccer, most codes) The crossbar.
    • 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC‎^[4]:

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

32. (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
33. An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
35. (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially:
    2. A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water; a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).

       Synonym: bank

       Hyponym: sandbar

       • 1868, “Route 20: London to Tiflis […] ”, in Handbook for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland, 2nd 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.

36. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
    • 1957 February, “B.T.C. Armorial Bearings”, in Railway Magazine, page 81:

      On the fesse are two bars wavy azure for waterways.

    Coordinate terms: barrulet, closet

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

    Temple Bar, London

38. (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
39. (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
40. (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
41. (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.
42. (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
43. (slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
    • 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, “The First Shag in Ages”, in Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 151:

      Tell Sick Boy tae gie us a bell if ye see um. The bastard owes us twenty fuckin bar.

44. (recreational drugs) A small, tablet-shaped dose of Xanax, typically containing two milligrams and able to be split into quarters.

• (heraldry): Ordinary on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [5]

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.

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.

   to 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.

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

• → Esperanto: bari

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.

• bar none
• all over bar the shouting

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

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

bar (plural bars)

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

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• isobar

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

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

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

bár m (plural baritté f)

1. night
2. age

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

• bartikimbir
• bartikimbiró

• 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)‎^[6], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

From Dutch bar.

• IPA^(key): [bɑɾ]

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bar (attributive barre, comparative barder, superlative barste)

1. barren

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ

Uncertain. Possibly:

1. From Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- (“tip, point”), whence also Latin far (“emmer, spelt”), Proto-Germanic *baraz (“barley”) and Proto-Slavic *boršьno (“flour”).^[1][2]
2. Akin to Ancient Greek φάρμακον (phármakon, “drug, medicine”), from a tentative common Proto-Indo-European root *bʰer- (“cure with herbs”).^[3][4]
3. From Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH- (“to grow”), whence also Ancient Greek φυτόν (phutón, “plant”), Old Armenian բոյս (boys, “plant”).^[5]

Etymology 1, noun 2 sense 4 is likely a semantic loan from English weed, French herbe or Italian erba.

bar m (plural barëra)

1. grass
2. meadow, grassfield

   Synonym: lëndinë

3. (figurative) tasteless food

bar m (indefinite barna)

1. medicine, medication, herb

   Synonym: ilaç

2. poison (for insects or other animals)
3. (figurative) solution (for a difficult situation)
5. (colloquial) weed, marijuana

• Bardhi, Frang (1635), Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum (overall work in Latin and Albanian), page 53: “magnes — aste gna baar ghi hiec becurine vetehei”
• Jungg, G. (1895), “baar”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 3*
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[7], 1980, pages 95–98
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[8], 1980, page 98

Internationalism, ultimately from English bar.

bar m (plural bare)

1. bar (place serving drinks)

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[9], 1980, page 98

Internationalism, compare German Bar, French bar, English bar, ultimately from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros).

bar m (plural barë)

1. (physics) bar (unit of pressure)

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[10], 1980, page 98

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑɾ/, [ˈbɑɾ̞̊]

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From Persian بار.

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

Ultimately from English bar.

bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)

1. bar (a business selling alcoholic drinks)

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

bar

1. (meteorology) bar (unit of pressure)

• Orucov, Əliheydər, editor (2006), “bar”, in Azərbaycan dilinin izahlı lüğəti [Explanatory Dictionary of the Azerbaijani Language]‎^[11] (in Azerbaijani), 2nd edition, volume 1, Baku: Şərq-Qərb, page 219

• IPA^(key): (Central, Valencia) [ˈbar]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈbar], [ˈba]

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Borrowed from English bar. Doublet of barra.

bar m (plural bars)

1. bar (establishment where alcohol is served)

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

bar m (plural bars)

1. bar (unit of measure)

Variant of archaic bare, from Old Catalan baare, derived from the nominative case of baador, a variant of bausador (whence Catalan bausador), borrowed from Old Occitan; of uncertain origin but probably related to German böse (“evil”).^[1]

bar m or f (masculine and feminine plural bars)

1. (obsolete) traitorous

bar m or f by sense (plural bars)

1. (obsolete) traitor

• biar (Luserna)

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

bar

1. (Sette Comuni) we

   Synonym: bandare

   Bar zeinan bèllase. ― We are Italians.

   Bar zeinda. ― We are here.

   Bar habanze galummet. ― We took them.

• “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

From Proto-Turkic *bār.

bar

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

   Antonym: yoq

bar

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

• IPA^(key): /bar/

Borrowed from English bar.

bar m inan

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)

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

bar m

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

• “bar”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “bar”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

From Latin bibere.

bar (second-person plural present baite)

1. to drink

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

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

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

1. bare, naked

   Synonym: nøgen

2. sheer, pure

Borrowed from English bar.

bar c (singular definite baren, plural indefinite barer)

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

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

bar c (singular definite baren, plural indefinite bar)

1. bar (unit of pressure)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bar

1. past tense of bære

• “bar” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

Borrowed from English bar.

bar m (plural bars, diminutive barretje n)

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

• Types of establishment

• → Caribbean Javanese: bar
• → Indonesian: bar

Doublet of baar (“bare”), which see for more. Baar continues the Middle Dutch inflected stem, bar the uninflected stem.

bar (comparative barder, superlative barst)

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

Declension 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	—

bar

1. extremely (only in a negative sense)

• barkoud
• barslecht

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

bar

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

• kilobar
• megabar
• millibar

• isobaar

• → Indonesian: bar

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

bar

1. first/third-person singular past of bera

   hetta bar ikki til

   this wasn’t possible

• IPA^(key): /baʁ/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /bɑʁ/

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• Rhymes: -aʁ

From English bar. Doublet of barre.

bar m (plural bars)

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

• bar laitier
• pilier de bar
• resto-bar

• → Romanian: bar

From Old French bars (12th c.), from Frankish *bars, from Proto-Germanic *barsaz (“perch”). Depending on the age of the borrowing, it may not be directly from Frankish, but from later Old Dutch (cf. modern Dutch baars). The final -s was interpreted in Old French as the nominative-singular and accusative-plural suffix, leading to the backformation bar.

bar m (plural bars)

1. bass (fish)

• bar commun
• bar européen

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

Borrowed from English bar. Doublet of barra.

bar m (plural bares)

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

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

bar m (plural bares)

1. bar (unit of pressure)

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• Rhymes: -aːɐ̯

The word "bar" has been attested since the 10th century in Old High German; from the Germanic *baza- "naked", itself from the Proto-Indo-European *bhoso- with the same meaning. From it, in several current Indo-European languages, some words exist with a similar or close meaning. It is believed that an Indo-European verb *bhes-/ *bhsā/ *psā- with the meaning "to rub, scratch" is the basis of the word. The meaning therefore evolves from "to erase" to "bare, naked". Hence the meanings "without something" (as in "bar jeder Einsicht" meaning "from every point of view") and "evident to the naked eye" (attested in Middle High German in reference to money).

bar (not comparable)

1. bare

bar

1. in cash
2. pure

bar [with genitive]

1. without

   Synonyms: ohne, sonder, außer, ausschließlich

bar (invariable)

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

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

bar

1. romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐍂

• IPA^(key): /paːr/
• Rhymes: -aːr

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

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

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

bar n (genitive singular bars, nominative plural bör)

1. bar (unit of pressure)

bar

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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbar/ [ˈbar]
• Rhymes: -ar
• Syllabification: bar

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.

bar (plural bar-bar)

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

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

bar (plural bar-bar)

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

• “bar”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
• "bar" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

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

bar m (genitive singular bair, nominative plural bair)

1. bar (unit of pressure)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “bar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “bar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026

Unadapted borrowing from English bar. Doublet of barra.

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

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)

• barista

bar

1. inflection of bārt:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person plural present indicative
   3. second-person singular imperative
2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of bārt
3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of bārt

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

bar

1. empty

bar

1. again
2. also
3. more

bar

1. more

bar

1. head
2. rock
3. top; tip

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

bar

1. Northern form of bor

Related to Persian بار (bâr).

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

bar m

1. burden (a heavy load)

From Old Norse berr and Old Danish bar.

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 [12]

     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.

• barbeint
• barbrystet

• berr (Nynorsk)

Borrowed from English bar.

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)

• bartender (sense 1)

From Old Norse barr.

bar n (definite singular baret, uncountable)

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

• barskog
• bartre

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

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

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

• millibar

bar

1. simple past of bære

• “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).

• IPA^(key): /bɑːr/

bar

1. past tense of bera

Borrowed from English bar.

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)

• bartender (sense 1)

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

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

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

• kilobar
• megabar
• millibar

• isobar

From Old Norse barr.

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 […]

• barkjuke
• barskog
• bartre
• granbar

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

• “bar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *bair.

• IPA^(key): /bɑːr/
• Rhymes: -ār

bār m

1. boar

Strong a-stem:

• eofor

• Middle English: bor, boor, bore, boore, bar, bare, bayre (Northern)
  • English: boar
  • Scots: bair
  • Yola: boar

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

• IPA^(key): /bar/

bar

1. bare

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

bar

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of bëran

• IPA^(key): /βaɾ/

bar

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

bar

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

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

bār

1. bare

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

• Köbler, Gerhard (2014), Altsächsisches Wörterbuch‎^[13] (in German), 5th edition

Likely from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *barbar (“to spread out, unfurl”).

bar

1. (inchoative) to spread out, to unfurl
   • c. late 15th century, Bujangga Manik, line 936:

     na layar ma(n)jĕ(r) kĕ(m)bang, hir na angin bar na layar.

     The sails bloom like flowers, the wind blows, the sails unfurl....

• Noorduyn, J; Teeuw, A (2006), Three Old Sundanese Poems‎^[14], Leiden: K.I.T.L.V. Press, →ISBN

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

bar

1. bare

• Swedish: bar

Pacoh cardinal numbers

<  1	2	3  >
Cardinal : bar     Ordinal : abar

From Proto-Katuic *ɓaar, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɓaar.

• IPA^(key): [ɓaːr]

bar

1. two

• IPA^(key): /ˈbar/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ar
• Syllabification: bar
• Homophone: Bar

Borrowed from English bar.

bar m inan (diminutive barek, related adjective barowy)

1. bar, public house (business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves)
2. bar, luncheon bar, buffet, wet bar (area for the preparation of alcoholic drinks, equipped with a countertop having a sink and running water and usually located in a home, hotel room, or similar quarters)

   Synonym: bufet

Learned borrowing from New Latin barium.

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bar m inan (related adjective barowy)

1. barium (chemical element (symbol Ba) with an atomic number of 56)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros).

bar m inan (related adjective baryczny)

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

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

• rab

• (Caipira) IPA^(key): [ˈbaɹ], [ˈbaɻ]

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Hyphenation: Portuguese

Borrowed from English bar.^[1][2] Doublet of barra.

bar m (plural bares)

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

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

bar m (plural bares)

1. bar (unit of pressure)

• “bar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

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

bar f (plural barǎ)

1. enclosure

bar m (plural bara)

1. alternative form of barr

• 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] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, pages 73-74

From French bar. Doublet of bară.

bar m (plural bari)

1. bar (establishment)

Doublet of var (“there is”).

• (Xunhua, Qinghai; Ili, Xinjiang) IPA^(key): /pɑr/, [pɑɻ]

bar

1. rich

   bar kişler

   rich people

• 林 (Lin), 莲云 (Lianyun) (1992), “bar”, in 撒拉汉汉撒拉词汇 [Salar-Chinese, Chinese-Salar Vocabulary], 成都: 四川民族出版社, →ISBN, page 144
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002), “bar”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎^[15], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 135

Borrowed from English bar.

• IPA^(key): /bâːr/.

bȃr m inan (Cyrillic spelling ба̑р, relational adjective bȃrskī)

1. public house, bar

• “bar”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

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

• IPA^(key): /bâːr/

bȃr m inan (Cyrillic spelling ба̑р)

1. bar (unit of pressure)

• “bar”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Clipping of bàrem.

• IPA^(key): /bâr/

bȁr (Cyrillic spelling ба̏р)

1. at least

• “bar”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

From Proto-Slavic *bъrъ.

• IPA^(key): /bâːr/

bȃr m inan (Cyrillic spelling ба̑р) (regional)

1. foxtail millet (Setaria italica)

   Synonym: mȕhār

2. pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum)

   Synonyms: kòšćan, bìsērno prȍso

• “bar”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Borrowed from English bar.

• IPA^(key): /báːr/.

bȃr m inan

1. public house, bar

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

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

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

• IPA^(key): /báːr/

bȃr m inan

1. bar (unit of pressure)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

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

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

• barem, baren

• IPA^(key): /báːr/

bȃr

1. at least

   Synonym: vsaj

2. even though

   Synonym: čeprav

3. otherwise, for else

   Synonym: sicer

From Proto-Slavic *bъrъ.

• ber, bȋr

• IPA^(key): /báːr/

bȃr m inan

1. foxtail millet (Setaria italica)

   Synonym: laški muhvič

2. pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum)

   Synonym: biserno proso

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

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

• “bar”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “bar”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

bár (intransitive baro, agent noun bare)

1. (transitive) to learn

• “bar”, in Qaamuuska Af-Soomaaliga, 2012

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

Borrowed from English bar. Doublet of barra.

bar m (plural bares)

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

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

bar m (plural bares)

1. bar (unit of pressure)

• “bar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

bar

1. romanization of 𒁇

From Old Sundanese bar, likely from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *barbar (“to spread out, unfurl”).

bar (Sundanese script ᮘᮁ)

1. (inchoative) to spread out, to unfurl

• "BAR", in Coolsma, S (1913), Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij

• IPA^(key): /bɑːr/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑːr

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

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)

• barmark

See bära.

bar

1. past indicative of bära

Unadapted borrowing from English bar.

bar c

1. a bar (place where mainly alcoholic drinks are served)

   barer och nattklubbar

   bars and nightclubs

2. a bar (bar counter)

   Synonym: bardisk (“bar counter”)

   Vi hängde mest vid baren

   We mostly hung out by the bar

Bar has more modern, sleek connotations, while pub suggests a British-style pub, with cozy connotations, etc. See also krog.

• → Finnish: baari

• krog
• nattklubb
• pub

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

bar c

1. A bar; a unit of pressure

• bar in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bar in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bar in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• bar in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• bra

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

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

bar (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜇ᜔)

1. bar (business selling alcoholic drinks)

   Synonyms: inuman, barikan, taberna

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

   Synonym: baras

• magbar

• bra, Abr

bar

1. a stone

• haling

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾ/, [ˈba̠ɾ̞̊]

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

bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)

1. (dialectal) dance, round dance

Borrowed from English bar.

bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)

1. bar, pub

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

bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)

1. (dialectal) dirt, dust

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

bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)

1. (unit of pressure) bar

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (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

Other scripts
Latin	bar‍
Cyrillic	бар‍
Arabic	بار

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːɾ/, [ˈbɑːɾ]

From Proto-Turkic *bār.

bar

1. Existential copula: there is, there are, there exists, there exist

From Persian بار

bar (definite accusative bary, uncountable -)

1. time, turn, occasion

   Synonym: gezek

• baor

From Middle High German bër, Old High German bero, from Proto-West Germanic *berō, from Proto-Germanic *berô, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“brown”).

bar m (plural barn)

1. bear

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

bar

1. door

• IPA^(key): /bar/

Borrowed from Middle English bar.

bar m (plural bariau or barrau)

1. bar, post

   Synonyms: ffon, polyn, postyn, trosol

2. bar, block

   Synonyms: bloc, darn

3. bar, counter

   Synonym: cownter

   1. bar (drinking establishment)
4. (music) bar
5. (geography) bar, sandbar, bank

   Synonyms: banc, glan

6. (law, as y bar) the bar

• bar o siocled (“chocolate bar”)
• croesfar (“crossbar”)

Inherited from Middle Welsh barr, from Proto-Celtic *barros, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers-.

bar m (plural bariau or barrau or bars)

1. top, summit, head

   Synonyms: blaen, brig, copa, pen

2. (rare) tuft, bunch, bush, branch

   Synonyms: mwng, tusw, llwyn, cangen

• bargod (“eaves”)

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

bar m (plural barrau)

1. bar (non-SI unit of pressure)

• isobar

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “bar”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “bar”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Related to Persian بار (bâr).

bar

1. load, burden