bere

From Middle English bere (“barley”), from Old English bere (“barley”), from Proto-West Germanic *barī, from Proto-Germanic *baraz (“barley”). Compare Welsh bara (“bread”), Latin far (“emmer”), Serbo-Croatian бра̏шно/brȁšno (“flour”), Albanian bar (“grass”), Ancient Greek Φήρον (Phḗron, “plant deity”). See also: barley.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɪə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /bɪɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
• Homophones: beer, bier, bear (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger)

bere (uncountable)

1. (chiefly Scotland) Barley, especially four-rowed barley or six-rowed barley.

• bear

See bear (“pillowcase”)

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɪə/, /bɛə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bɪɚ/, /bɛɚ/

bere (plural beres)

1. (now dialectal) A pillowcase; a fabric case or covering as for a pillow; a pillowbere.
   • 1976, Essex Record Office, Publications:

     Woven and embroidered coverlets in imitation of tapestry appear as 'a tapestry covering which lieth on my bed' [...] 'a pillow of feathers with a bere' (pillow-case); 'two pillows and the beres to [cover them]'

   • 2014 April 1, Phil Rickman, The Heresy of Dr Dee, Atlantic Books, →ISBN:

     [...] he'd tossed me an extra pillow in a bere.

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Bere”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.

• Beer, Bree, Eber, Erbe, Reeb, be-er, beer, bree, eber, reeb

bere

1. plural of beer

bere

1. a stick

• Richard Nci Diarra, Lexique bambara-français-anglais, December 13, 2010

• IPA^(key): /beɾe/ [be.ɾe]
• Rhymes: -eɾe, -e
• Hyphenation: be‧re

bere

1. genitive plural of bera; their

   Synonym: beren

bere

1. genitive singular of bera; his, her, its

From Proto-Bantu *ìbéèdè.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɓé.ɽe/

bére class 5 (plural maŵére class 6)

1. breast, teat
2. part of a bunch of bananas, about a handful in size

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛrɛ]
• Rhymes: -ɛrɛ
• Hyphenation: be‧re

bere

1. third-person singular present indicative of brát

• bevere (archaic or dialectal, Romanesco)

From a contraction of earlier bevere, from Latin bibere, from Proto-Italic *pibō, from Proto-Indo-European *píph₃eti. Cognate with Albanian pi, literary Armenian ըմպել (əmpel), Hindi पीना (pīnā), and Irish ibh.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbe.re/

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• Rhymes: -ere
• Hyphenation: bé‧re

bére (first-person singular present bévo, first-person singular past historic bévvi or bevétti or (traditional) bevètti, past participle bevùto, first-person singular imperfect bevévo, first-person singular future berrò, auxiliary avére)

1. (ambitransitive) to drink [auxiliary avere]

Including lesser-used forms:

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

• Eber, ebre, erbe, rebe

bēre

1. vocative masculine singular of bērus

From Old Dutch *bero, from Proto-West Germanic *berō, from Proto-Germanic *berô.

bēre m

1. bear

• Dutch: beer
  • Afrikaans: beer
  • → Papiamentu: ber, beer
• Limburgish: baer, Béër
• West Flemish: beir
• Zealandic: beêr

From Old Dutch *beri, from Proto-West Germanic *baʀi, from Proto-Germanic *bazją.

bēre f

1. berry

• West Flemish: beier

• “bere (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “bere (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “bere (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “bere (V)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page V

From Old English bera, *beora, from Proto-West Germanic *berō, from Proto-Germanic *berô.

• beare, bier
• beere (Late Middle English)
• beor, beore, boere, bore, buere (south West Midlands, from Mercian Old English *beora)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ̞ːr(ə)/

bere (plural beres)

1. A bear (mammal of the family Ursidae)
2. The Big Dipper or Little Dipper.

• berewort

• English: bear (see there for further descendants)
• Middle Scots: beir
  • Scots: bear, beir

• “bēr(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Inherited from Old English bere, from Proto-West Germanic *barī, from Proto-Germanic *baraz.

• bare, ber (both rare)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ̞ːr(ə)/

bere (uncountable)

1. barley (Hordeum vulgare or its grain)

• berebynde

• English: bere, bear
• Middle Scots: bere, beir, bair, bear
  • Scots: bear, bere

• “bēr(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Compare Old Norse berja (“to strike”).

bere

1. (transitive) To pierce.
   • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 2255-2256:

     [...] Than preye I thee, to-morwe with a spere
     That Arcita me thurgh the herte bere.

     [...] Then I pray thee, tomorrow with a spear
     That Arcite stab me through the heart.

• IPA^(key): /²bɛːrə/

• (she-bear): berre (Nord-Gudbrandsdalen)
• (she-bear): bera (dialectal)
• (she-bear): beru (Midlandsnormalen)

From Old Norse bera.

bere f (definite singular bera, indefinite plural berer, definite plural berene)

1. a female bear, she-bear

   Synonyms: binne, hobjørn

   Inne mellom trea kunne dei skimta ei bere.

   Between the trees, they could discern a she-bear.

bere (present tense ber, past tense bar, past participle bore, passive infinitive berast, present participle berande, imperative ber)

1. e-infinitive form of bera

• “bere” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbe.re/

From Proto-West Germanic *barī, from Proto-Germanic *baraz. Cognate with Old Norse barr.

bere m

1. barley

Strong ja-stem:

• bærlīċ
• beren

• Middle English: bere, bare, ber (both rare)
  • English: bere, bear
  • Middle Scots: bere, beir, bair, bear
    • Scots: bear, bere

bere

1. first-person singular present indicative of beran

bëre

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of bëran

• IPA^(key): /ˈbe.re/

Borrowed from German Bier. Influenced by the word below, meaning "action of drinking".

bere f (plural beri)

1. beer

   Vrem trei beri, te rog.

   We want three beers, please.

• berărie

From bea (“to drink”) +‎ -re.

bere f (uncountable)

1. (rare) (the act of) drinking

From Old Frisian bera, from Proto-West Germanic *beran. Cognates include West Frisian barre and English bear.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeːrə/
• Hyphenation: be‧re
• Rhymes: -eːrə

bere

1. (transitive) to bear; to give birth to
   • 2000, Marron C. Fort, transl., Dät Näie Tästamänt un do Psoolme in ju aasterlauwerfräiske Uurtoal fon dät Seelterlound, Fräislound, Butjoarlound, Aastfräislound un do Groninger Umelounde [The New Testament and the Psalms in the East Frisian language, native to Saterland, Friesland, Butjadingen, East Frisia and the Ommelanden of Groningen], →ISBN, Dät Evangelium ätter Matthäus 1:16:

     Jakob waas die Foar fon Josef, dän Mon fon Maria; Fon Maria wuud Jesus bädden, die die Christus (die Messias) namd wädt.

     Jacob was the father of Joseph, the husband of Maria; From Maria Jesus was born, who is called Christus (the Messiah).

• Marron C. Fort (2015), “bere”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

• bear

Inherited from Middle Scots bere, beir, from Middle English bere, from Old English bere, from Proto-West Germanic *barī.

• IPA^(key): /biːr/

bere (uncountable)

1. barley, especially six-rowed barley

From English belly^[1] and possibly Gun xoto (“belly, pregnancy”),^[2] possibly from Proto-Gbe *-χʷo. Compare Maroon Spirit Language bere, Jamaican Creole beli, Krio bɛlɛ́.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɾe/, [ˈbɪ̞ɾɪ̞], [ˈbe̝ɾe̝]

bere

1. belly, stomach
2. womb
3. pregnancy, the state of being pregnant

• Aukan: bee
• Saramaccan: bë́ë

• Wilner, John, editor (2003-2007), “bere”, in Languages of Suriname, 5th edition, SIL International, Sranan-English Dictionary

Borrowed from French béret.

bere (definite accusative bereyi, plural bereler)

1. beret

From Old Turkic bertmek (“to wound, to injure”)

bere (definite accusative bereyi, plural bereler)

1. wound, injury

   Synonym: bertik

• “bere”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “bere”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı

Borrowed from Afrikaans perd.

bere (plural dzibere)

1. horse