bara

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑː.ɹə/, /ˈbæ.ɹə/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːɹə, -æɹə

Short for barazoku, from Japanese 薔薇族 (barazoku, literally “rose tribe”), referencing the gay men's magazine Barazoku, which was the first of its kind published in Japan, itself named after a post-World War II term for gay men.

bara (uncountable)

2. (Japanese fiction, strictly) A genre of homoerotic media, usually also pornographic, typically created by gay men and targeted at gay men in Japan.
3. (loosely) A genre of homoerotic or pornographic media of a similar style and aesthetic, regardless of the creator's gender or ethnicity.
4. (loosely) Any homoerotic or pornographic media that accentuates macho masculinity; gay porn.

• The term barazoku was once relatively more common in the Japanese gay community (the magazine Barazoku starting publication in 1971), but it has become dated and replaced by other terms such as ガチムチ (gachimuchi).
• The term bara often contrasts with yaoi, which is gay male media usually made by heterosexual women to appeal to other heterosexual women. Whereas bara typically emphasizes masculine homoeroticism and frank explicit sexual situations, yaoi typically emphasizes the androgynous bishonen aesthetic and depicts emotional romantic relationships.

bara (uncountable)

1. Of or related to media in the bara genre.

   bara men

Clipping of capybara.

bara (plural baras)

2. (informal) A capybara.

• Raab, arab, ABAR, Abra, abra, abar, Abar, arba, Arab, Baar, raab

• IPA^(key): /baˈra/ [bʌˈɾʌ]
• Hyphenation: ba‧ra

bará f

1. sake

Declension of bará
absolutive	bará
predicative	bará
subjective	bará
genitive	bará
Postpositioned forms l-case barál k-case barák t-case barát h-case baráh

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbara/ [ˈbʌɾʌ]
• Hyphenation: ba‧ra

bára

1. predicative of bár

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN, page 68
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

From Proto-Celtic *bargos, *barginā (“cake, bread”) (compare Welsh bara, Cornish bara, Old Irish bairgen f (“bread, loaf; food, plain diet”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- (“spike, prickle”) (Old Norse barr (“corn, grain, barley”), Latin far (“spelt”), Serbo-Croatian бра̏шно/brȁšno).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑː.ra/

bara m (plural baraioù)

1. bread

• Hyphenation: ba‧ra

bara

1. a yard; a unit of length equal to 3 feet

From Caribbean Hindustani bára, possibly from Hindi बड़ा (baṛā). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaː.raː/

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• Hyphenation: ba‧ra

bara m (plural bara's, no diminutive)

1. (originally Suriname) vada (a savoury doughnut made of mung bean flour)
   • 2021 July 4, “Gezellige sfeer bij vaccinatie in PL-centrum [Congenial atmosphere at vaccination drive at PL party headquarters]”, in StarNieuws‎^[2], retrieved 7 December 2022:

     Uit enkele speakers dendert soca en zouk muziek^[sic]. In de lucht hangt de geur van versgebakken bara's en kip.

     Soca and zouk music thumps from a couple of loudspeakers. The smell of freshly fried vadas and chicken wafts through the air.

• Bara (snack) on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛaːɹa/
• Rhymes: -ɛaːɹa
• Homophones: barað, bæra

bara (third person singular past indicative baraði, third person plural past indicative baraðu, supine barað)

1. (reflexive) constrain (oneself)

bara

1. just, simply
2. I wish
3. if only

• (I wish): gævi

• IPA^(key): /ba.ʁa/

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bara m (uncountable)

1. (Ivory Coast slang) work, labour
   • 2019 April 1, La rappeuse NASH, “La rappeuse NASH nommée ambassadrice nationale UNICEF”, in A UNICEF press release, spread by Ivorian.net, Fratmat, Allafrica, Afrique Femme, Abidjan TV, Ivoire Soir, Africa Hot News:

     Ma science pour les gopios, c’est de : couman fah-fah avec eux, prendre dra de leur melanhement, de leur miria, djaouli ceux qui veulent fraya au souklou, ou avoir un bara djidji par rapport à un graya général demso, decrou un bon soutrali par rapport à les bognan et leur gué un nouveau douahou et mettre mon fangan au-devant pour leurs wés.

     My science for the children is: to do some plain talk with them, discover their troubles, their concerns, to make provisions for those who want to go to school, or to have some real work in relation to a general sustenance, to render some good help in relation to their problems and give them a new chance, and to apply my power for their dreams.

bara

1. (Ivory Coast slang) to work, to labour

• 'bara, bala, 'bala

• From Mende (Sierra Leone) 'bala.

• IPA^(key): /bɑ.la/, /bɑ.ɹɑ/

bara

1. xylophone

• Lorenzo Dow Turner, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (1969)

• IPA^(key): /bá.ɽàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [bə́.ɽàː]

barā̀ m (feminine baranyā̀, plural barōrī, possessed form baràn)

1. servant
   1. A young person who out of respect volunteers to work for someone from time to time.

• IPA^(key): /bá.ràː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [bə́.ràː]

bar̃ā̀ f (plural bàr̃ā̀ce-bàr̃ā̀ce, possessed form bar̃àr̃)

1. A beggar for alms

• IPA^(key): /bàː.ráː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [bàː.ráː]

bā̀r̃ā f (possessed form bā̀r̃ar̃)

1. one's focus (e.g., in aiming at or attempting to catch something)

• IPA^(key): /bàː.ɽá/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [bàː.ɽə́]

bā̀ra f (possessed form bā̀rar̃)

1. last year

bā̀ra

1. last year

Borrowed from Spanish vara/barra.

bára

1. crowbar
2. yardstick

Inherited from Proto-Malayic *bara(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baʀah.

bara

1. embers, glowing coal

• Scott, N. C. (1956), A Dictionary of Sea Dayak‎^[3], School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

From Proto-Austronesian *baʀaq.

bara

1. (anatomy) lung

Borrowed from Danish bare (“barely, only”). First attested in the 18th c..^[1] Compare Swedish bara.

bara

1. only, just, if only

   Ég á bara 200 krónur.

   I only have 200 krónur.

   Bara að hann hringi í mig...

   If only he'd call me...

2. (emphatic, postpositive) only, just

   Synonym: barasta

   Þegiðu bara!

   Just shut up!

   Gerðu þetta bara og þegiðu!

   Just do it and shut up.

• af því bara, aþþí bara, af því barasta (“just because”)

From Proto-Austronesian *baʀaq.

bara

1. lung

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbara/ [ˈba.ra]
• Rhymes: -ara
• Syllabification: ba‧ra

Inherited from Malay bara, from Proto-Malayic *bara(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baʀah, from Proto-Austronesian *baʀah.

bara (plural bara-bara)

1. embers, cinder

Borrowed from Toba Batak [Term?]

bara (plural bara-bara)

1. under the house used as a livestock pen

Borrowed from Ma'anyan [Term?]

bara (plural bara-bara)

1. poultry cages made of bamboo or wood in a rectangular shape

Borrowed from Sangir [Term?]

bara (plural bara-bara)

1. a traditional sword from Sangihe, North Sulawesi, one side is sharp and the other side is curved, about 55 cm long, the hilt is made of wood or buffalo horn, used for hunting and war

Borrowed from Bekati' [Term?]

bara (plural bara-bara)

1. lemang cooked without being wrapped in banana leaves, usually used for healing rituals

• “bara”, 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

bara

1. if, when

• Mous, Maarten; Qorro, Martha; Kießling, Roland (2002), Iraqw-English Dictionary (Kuschitische Sprachstudien), volume 18, Köln, Germany: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN, page 11

• IPA^(key): /ˈbˠaɾˠə/

From Old Irish bara (“flow; intention, design”). Probably related to Middle Irish baramail (“opinion, expectation”).

bara f (genitive singular bara, nominative plural baraí)

1. inclination, intention

From Middle Irish bara (“barrow”), borrowed from Old Norse barar.

bara m (genitive singular bara, nominative plural baraí)

1. barrow, cart

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “bara”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bara”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 bara”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “bara”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “bara”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.ra/
• Rhymes: -ara
• Hyphenation: bà‧ra

Borrowed from Lombardic bāra (“bier, litter”), from Proto-West Germanic *beran, from Proto-Germanic *beraną (“to carry”). Compare German Bahre (“bier, stretcher”).

bara f (plural bare)

1. bier (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
   • 1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XI”, in Paradiso [Heaven], lines 115–117; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     e del suo grembo l’anima preclara
     mover si volle, tornando al suo regno,
     e al suo corpo non volle altra bara.

     And from her bosom the illustrious soul wished to depart, returning to its realm, and for its body wished no other bier.

2. coffin (box in which a person is buried)

   Synonym: (regional) tabuto

   Il cadavere fu deposto nella bara.

   The body was placed in the coffin.

   molte bare in attesa di sepoltura

   a number of coffins awaiting burial

3. (obsolete) litter, stretcher

   Synonyms: barella, lettiga

4. (religion) a carriage used to transport a saint's relics
5. an animal-drawn carriage typical of Tuscany and Liguria

• barella

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bara

1. inflection of barare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• bara in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• raba

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːra/
• Hyphenation: ba‧ra

bara

1. alternative form of borrow
   • 1995, English World-wide, volumes 16-17, Julius Groos Verlag, page 214:

     “So, mii en ha fi fain mi uona wie fi se ina Jamiekan aal kain a sinting we piipl a taak bout wen dem a stodi langgwij . Mek mi shuo unu wa ... Mi bara di Rasta wod 'grounieshan' we dem yuuz fi seshan we dem miit an riizn . Mi tek i an yuuz i fi [...]”

     Well, I had to find my own way to express all sorts of things in Jamaican Creole which people talk about when they study languages. Let me show you what [...] I'm borrowing the Rasta word "Grounation" which they use for sessions where they get together and discuss important matters. I took it and used it to [...]

bara

1. Rōmaji transcription of ばら
2. Rōmaji transcription of バラ

bara

1. romanization of ꦧꦫ

Perso-Arabic		بَرا

• barasıça

Borrowed from Persian برا (barâ).

• (Xarrâbî) IPA^(key): [baɾa]

bara

1. because of, for

   Synonyms: bərâyı, sârı

2. in regard to, in respect of

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1980), Wörterbuch des Chaladsch (Dialekt von Charrab) [Khalaj dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó

Possibly from an extinct South Cushitic language. Compare with Iraqw balaangwe.

bara ? (dual, plural) (cape khoe)

1. grain, sorghum, millet, bread

• Words of apparent Arabic and CUSHITIC origin in Khoekhoe and Kalahari KHOE languages of southern Africa: how did they get there, and what are the implications?‎^[4], 2023

• IPA^(key): /βàɾà(ꜜ)/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.

• (Kiambu)

• (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.^[1]

bara class 9/10 (plural bara)

1. road

   Synonyms: barabara, njĩra

• “barabara” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 24. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

bara

1. nearby, at, close

• Rina, A. Dj.; Kabba, John Lado B. (2011), “bara”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 8

bara m

1. genitive singular of bars

Inherited from Proto-Malayic *bara(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baʀah, from Proto-Austronesian *baʀah.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbara/ [ˈba.ra]
• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /barə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /bara/
• Rhymes: -arə, -rə, -ə
• Rhymes: -a

bara (Jawi spelling بارا, plural bara-bara or bara²)

1. embers, live coal

• Indonesian: bara

• “bara”, in Kamus Dewan [The Institute Dictionary] (in Malay), Fourth edition, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2005, →ISBN
• "bara" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bajaq, compare Old Javanese warah.

bara

1. to warn

bara

1. crowbar

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑ.rɑ/
• Rhymes: -ara

bara

1. inflection of bær:
   1. strong nominative/accusative feminine plural
   2. weak nominative masculine singular

From Proto-West Germanic *bāru, from Proto-Germanic *bērō, whence also Old English bēr.

bāra f

1. bier

• Middle High German: bāre
  • German: Bahre
• → Italian: bara
  • ⇒ Italian: barella

From Old Norse bera, bara (East Old Norse), from Proto-Germanic *bazōną.

bara

1. to bare, make bare

Borrowed from French barrer (“to bar”).

• IPA^(key): /baˈra/

a bara (third-person singular present barează, past participle barat) 1st conjugation

1. to bar, to block

   Synonym: bloca

2. to strike through

From Proto-Bantu *-bàda.

-bara (infinitive kubara, perfective -baze)

1. to count, calculate

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bara.

• IPA^(key): /bâra/
• Hyphenation: ba‧ra

bȁra f (Cyrillic spelling ба̏ра, relational adjective bȁrskī)

1. puddle
2. marsh, swamp

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bara (Cyrillic spelling бара)

1. genitive singular of bȃr

From Portuguese bala.

bará class 5 (plural mapará class 6)

1. bullet

Borrowed from Arabic بَرّ (barr, “mainland”).

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bara class V or IX (plural mabara class VI or bara class X)

1. mainland
2. continent

   Synonym: kontinenti

From Old Swedish bara, from Old Norse *bara (“barely, only”), from *barr, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz (“bare”). Compare Icelandic bara.

• (Sweden) IPA^(key): /²bɑːra/

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  • (colloquial, unstressed) IPA^(key): /ba/
• (Finland) IPA^(key): /bɑrɑ/
• Rhymes: -²ɑːra

bara

1. inflection of bar:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

bara (not comparable)

1. just, only

   Synonyms: blott, enbart, endast, enkom, uteslutande

   Jag ska bara läsa den här sidan också.

   I'll just read this page too.

   Vi har bara en bil.

   We have only one car.

• ba (colloquial)

• bara in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• Lövestam, Sara (2023), “Bara är inte alltid så bara”, in Språktidningen‎^[5] (in Swedish), number 4, Vetenskapsmedia, →ISSN, retrieved 30 August 2024

• arab, arab.

Either of the following:

• Borrowed from Spanish barrar (“to mud”).
• Borrowed from Spanish varar (“to strand”), possibly from Late Latin varare.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /baˈɾa/ [bɐˈɾa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ba‧ra

bará (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜇ)

1. clog; blockage; stoppage; obstruction

   Synonyms: pasak, sumpal, siksik

2. (colloquial) deliberate interruption of someone else's speech with a rude remark

• barado

Borrowed from Spanish vara, from Old Spanish vara, from Latin vāra (“fork”). Possible doublet of baras.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾa/ [ˈbaː.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -aɾa
• Syllabification: ba‧ra

bara (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜇ)

1. unit of length measuring about 33 inches
2. measuring stick or tape measure of such a length

Borrowed from Spanish barra, from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin. Doublet of bar. Possible doublet of baras.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾa/ [ˈbaː.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -aɾa
• Syllabification: ba‧ra

bara (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜇ)

1. shaft; lever; beam (of a balance)

   Synonyms: pingga, braso, baras

• Abra, abra

Possibly related to Tuareg ìhraw (“to be spacious, to be wide”), Awjila vùrǝk (“to be broad, wide”), Kabyle abaraw (“wide”), Tarifit miriw (“wide”), and Tachawit yiraw (“to be wide”).

• IPA^(key): /bara/

bara (intensive aorist ttbara, Tifinagh spelling ⴱⴰⵔⴰ, Arabic spelling بارا)

1. to be wide open

   اوفيغ تاڭّورت تبارا. ― ufiġ taggurt tbara. ― i found the door wide open.

• Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 1 a—e (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/1) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 591b

• IPA^(key): [ˈba.ɾa]

bara

1. carbuncle

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-bàda.

• IPA^(key): /βâɾa/

-bara (infinitive okubara) (transitive)

1. to count

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -barra
  • Short causative: -baza
  • Passive: -barwa

• Nominal derivations:
  • ekibaro (“calculation, mathematics”)

• Kaji, Shigeki (2007), A Rutooro Vocabulary‎^[6], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, page 344
• Rubongoya, L. T. (2013), Katondogorozi y'Orunyoro-Rutooro n'Orungereza [Runyoro–Rutooro-English and English-Runyoro–Rutooro dictionary]‎^[7], Kampala: Modrug Publishers, →ISBN, page 15

bara

1. dative singular of bar

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈbara/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈba(ː)ra/
• Rhymes: -ara

Inherited from Middle Welsh bara, Proto-Celtic *bargos, *barginā (“cake, bread”) (compare Breton bara, Cornish bara, Old Irish bairgen f (“bread, loaf; food, plain diet”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- (“spike, prickle”) (Old Norse barr (“corn, grain, barley”), Latin far (“spelt”), Serbo-Croatian бра̏шно/brȁšno).

bara m (uncountable)

1. bread
2. (figuratively) food, meal, sustenance
3. (figuratively) means of subsistence, livelihood

• torth (“loaf”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bara

1. soft mutation of para

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “bara”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*barag(en)o/ā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 56
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “bara”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies