barre

Borrowed from French barre. Doublet of bar.

• (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)

barre (plural barres)

1. (ballet) A handrail fixed to a wall used for ballet exercises.
2. (music) Short for barre chord.

barre (third-person singular simple present barres, present participle barring, simple past and past participle barred)

1. (music) To form a barre chord on an instrument.

• Berra, Raber, aberr, arber, barer, berra, rebar

From Proto-Basque *baRe, probably of imitative origin.

• IPA^(key): /bare/ [ba.re]

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• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: ba‧rre

barre inan

1. laughter

• “barre”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
• “barre”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Borrowed from French barre (“bar, ingot”).

• IPA^(key): /barə/, [ˈb̥ɑːɑ]

barre c (singular definite barren, plural indefinite barrer)

1. ingot
2. bar
3. (gymnastics) parallel bars, uneven bars

• barre on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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barre

1. inflection of bar:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

From Middle French barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old Frankish *bara (“bar, beam, barrier, fence”), from Proto-Germanic *barō (“beam, bar, barrier”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to strike, pierce”).

If so, then cognate with Old High German para, bara (“bar, beam, one's cherished land”), Middle Dutch bāre, baer (“bar, barrier, rail”), Old Frisian ber (“attack, assault”), Swedish bärling (“a spoke”), Norwegian berling (“a small bar in a vehicle, rod”), Latin forus (“gangway, plank”), Russian забо́р (zabór, “fencing, paling, fence”), Ancient Greek φάρος (pháros, “piece of land, furrow, marker, beacon, lighthouse”).

An alternative etymology derives Old French barre and Vulgar Latin *barra from a Celtic source related to Breton barri (“branch, twig”).

Doublet of bar.

• IPA^(key): /baʁ/ ~ /bɑʁ/

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barre f (plural barres)

1. bar, cake, ingot
2. (typography) Clipping of barre oblique: the slash mark ⟨/⟩
3. (typography) Clipping of barre de fraction: the fraction slash ⟨⁄⟩
4. (typography) Clipping of barre inscrite: the bar diacritics ⟨̵⟩, ⟨̶⟩, ⟨̷⟩, and ⟨̸⟩
5. (typography) Clipping of barre verticale: the vertical bar ⟨|⟩
6. (typography, improper) Clipping of barre oblique inversée: the backslash ⟨\⟩
7. (nautical) helm, tiller
8. (heraldry) bend sinister

• → English: barre
• → Romanian: bară
• → Vietnamese: ba-rê

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

• arbre

barre f

1. plural of barra

• berrà

barre

1. vocative singular of barrus

• barr, bar, bare

Borrowed from Old French barre, from Vulgar Latin *barra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbar(ə)/

barre (plural barres)

1. barrier, obstruction

• English: bar (see there for further descendants)
• ⇒ Yola: baaree, baree

• “barre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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barre f (plural barres)

1. (Jersey, nautical) helm, tiller; reef
2. (Jersey, cycling) crossbar

• (crossbar): barre dé travèrs

From German Barre, Barren, from French barre and Latin barra.

barre m (definite singular barren, indefinite plural barrer, definite plural barrene)

1. a bar or ingot (of precious metal)
2. a barre (e.g. for ballet training)

• gullbarre

• “barre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• NAOB [1]

From German Barren, from French barre and Latin barra.

barre m (definite singular barren, indefinite plural barrar, definite plural barrane)

1. a bar or ingot (of precious metal)

• gullbarre

• “barre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Vulgar Latin *barra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbarə/

barre oblique singular, f (oblique plural barres, nominative singular barre, nominative plural barres)

1. bar (solid, more or less rigid object with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length)
   • 12^th Century, Unknown, Raoul de Cambrai:

     Elle a l'us clos et fermet a la barre.

     She shut the door and closed it using the bar

• barriere

• Middle French: barre
  • French: barre
    • → English: barre
    • → Romanian: bară
    • → Vietnamese: ba-rê
• → Middle English: barre, barr, bar, bare
  • English: bar (see there for further descendants)
  • ⇒ Yola: baaree, baree

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -aʁi, (Portugal) -aʁɨ
• Homophone: varre (Porto)
• Hyphenation: bar‧re

barre

1. inflection of barrar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative
2. third-person singular present indicative of barrir

barre

1. inflection of barrar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative
2. inflection of barrer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative