baring

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛə.ɹɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛɹɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
• Homophones: Baring, bearing

baring

1. present participle and gerund of bare

baring (plural barings)

1. The act by which something is laid bare.
   • 2008, Carolyn Arends, Wrestling with Angels: Adventures in Faith and Doubt, page 90:

     These woods loom large in my history — they were the site of two clumsy first kisses, one heart-crushing breakup, and countless whispered barings of the soul — but they are even more solidly a part of my present.

• Gibran, arbing

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baring

1. eggplant, brinjal

Inherited from Malay baring.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbariŋ/ [ˈba.rɪŋ]
• Rhymes: -ariŋ
• Syllabification: ba‧ring

baring (active berbaring, imperative baring, emphatic-jussive baringlah)

1. to lie down, to lie back

   Synonyms: sandar, sender

2. to recline
3. to stretch out

   Synonym: regang

4. to rest

   Synonyms: istirahat, rehat, merebah

5. to repose

• “baring”, 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

baring

1. (pathology) mumps

• bareng (Pontianak)
• guring (Sambas)

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /bareŋ/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /barɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -areŋ, -reŋ, -eŋ
• Rhymes: -iŋ

baring (used in the form berbaring) (Jawi spelling باريڠ)

1. (intransitive) to lie down

baring

1. preserved shrimp sauce