ber

ber

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Berber languages.

• bair, bear, bér, bèr, bër, bher, bir

Borrowed from Hindi बेर (ber).

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bâr, IPA^(key): /bɛə(ɹ)/
• (India) enPR: bâr, IPA^(key): [beːɾ]

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

ber (plural bers)

1. A fruit-bearing tree (Ziziphus mauritiana); the jujube.

• ber month

• ber listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989] (paywall)

• 'erb, BrE, Bre, Erb, REB, Reb, reb

From Proto-Albanian *bōr-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōrs-, from root *bʰers- (“point, tip bolt”). Cognate to Old Irish barr (“point”).^[1]

ber m (plural berë, definite beri, definite plural berët)

1. bow, arc, arch
2. arrow
3. javelin, lance
4. European whipsnake (Dolichophis jugularis, syn. Coluber jugularis)

• beronjë

• ylber, bërryl

• bèar (Sette Comuni)

Inherited from Middle High German wer, from Old High German wer, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hwaz. Cognate with German wer, English who.

ber

1. (Luserna) who

   Bobrall du geast, gedenkhte ber du pist. ― Wherever you go, remember who you are.

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛr]
• Rhymes: -ɛr

ber

1. second-person singular imperative of brát

• erb

ber

1. bare, uncovered

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Inherited from Old Norse ber, from Proto-Germanic *basją, *bazją.

ber n (genitive singular bers, plural ber)

1. berry

Declension of ber
n22	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ber	berið	ber	berini
accusative	ber	berið	ber	berini
dative	beri	berinum	berjum, berum	berjunum, berunum
genitive	bers	bersins	berja	berjanna

Conjugated form.

ber

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

• tað ber ikki til (“this is impossible”)

Inherited from Middle French berz, from Vulgar Latin *bertium (“little cradle”), from Gaulish.

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ber m (plural bers)

1. (nautical) a cradle that holds a ship before and during its launch

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

• IPA^(key): /pɛːr/
• Rhymes: -ɛːr

From Old Norse berr, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz.

ber (comparative berari, superlative berastur)

1. bare
2. bare, naked
3. uncovered
4. discovered

   Hann varð ber að lygi.

   He was caught lying.

• allsber
• berrassaður
• ber er hver að baki, nema sér bróður eigi

From Old Norse ber, from Proto-Germanic *basją, *bazją.

ber n (genitive singular bers, nominative plural ber)

1. berry

ber

1. inflection of bērt:
   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 bērt
3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of bērt

ber

1. to see

• besible
• bison
• bista

ber

1. unstressed form of biar

• “ber” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

• bere, per

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

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈber/, /ˈbɛr/

ber or bër m

1. bear

• Alemannic German: Bärr
• Cimbrian: per
• German: Bär
• Rhine Franconian:
  • Hunsrik: Bäer
  • Luxembourgish: Bier
• Vilamovian: baor
• Yiddish: בער (ber)

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “ber”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
• "ber" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

• bzhe

• IPA^(key): [bɚ˧]
• Hyphenation: ber

ber

1. (stative) to be full (of)

• Štěpán Pavlík (2017) The Description of Namuzi Language‎^[2], Prague: Charles University (PhD Thesis), page 119

• bad (Föhr-Amrum)
• bade (Mooring)

From Proto-Germanic *bidjaną.

• (Sylt) IPA^(key): [b̥ɛɐ̯]

ber

1. (Sylt) to ask politely, to beg, request

From the same root as Etymology 2 below.

• IPA^(key): /bɛɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɛɾ
• Hyphenation: ber

ber m (Arabic spelling بەر)

1. front, face

   Synonym: pêşî

Slightly under the influence of Persian بر (“on, over”) (akin to wer (“prefix meaning "around"”)) but from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“front; around”). The change in meaning of this word in Northwest Iranic languages can be seen in Parthian [script needed] (par, “to; at”) also.

• IPA^(key): /bɛɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɛɾ
• Hyphenation: ber

ber (Arabic spelling بەر)

1. (temporal and spatial) before; in front of; toward
2. in, under

Likely from Proto-Iranian *varta- (“stone”).

• IPA^(key): /bɛɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɛɾ
• Hyphenation: ber

ber m (Arabic spelling بەر)

1. stone, rock
   1. particularly a small stone

      Antonym: kevir

2. bullet

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

• IPA^(key): /bɛr/
• Rhymes: -ɛr
• Hyphenation: ber

ber f (Arabic spelling بەڕ)

1. kilim (type of carpet)

Compare Persian بر (bar, “fruit”).

• IPA^(key): /bɛɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɛɾ
• Hyphenation: ber

ber m or f (Arabic spelling بەر)

1. fruit

   Synonyms: êmîş, fîkî, mêwe

2. (figurative) product

• IPA^(key): /bɛˤɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɛʕɾ
• Hyphenation: ber

be'r f (Arabic spelling بەعر)

1. Alternative form of behr (“sea”)

• Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “ber I”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 45
• Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “ber II”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 45
• Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “ber III”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 46
• Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “ber̄ IV”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 46
• Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “ber V”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 47
• Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “be‘r VI”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 47

ber

1. present of be

ber

1. present tense of bera
2. imperative of bera

ber

1. present tense of be

• bre

• bǣr

From Proto-West Germanic *bāru, from Proto-Germanic *bērō, whence also Old High German bāra.

• IPA^(key): /beːr/

bēr f

1. bier; a litter to transport dead people

• Middle English: bere, beere, beer
  • Scots: bere, beir
  • English: bier

ber m

1. nominative singular of baron

• IPA^(key): /bʲer/

·ber

1. first-person singular present subjunctive conjunct of beirid

From Proto-Germanic *basją, *bazją, whence also Old English berġe, Old High German beri, Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐍃𐌹 (basi).

ber n (genitive plural berja)

1. berry

• Icelandic: ber
• Faroese: ber
• Norwegian: bær
• Old Swedish: bær
  • Swedish: bär
• Danish: bær

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ber

1. inflection of berr (“bare”):
   1. strong feminine nominative singular
   2. strong neuter nominative/accusative plural

ber

1. inflection of bera:
   1. first-person singular present indicative active
   2. second-person singular imperative active
2. inflection of berja:
   1. first-person singular present indicative active
   2. second-person singular imperative active

• “ber”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bъrъ. First attested in 1409.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /bɛr/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /bɛr/

ber m animacy unattested

1. (attested in Greater poland) foxtail millet (Setaria italica)
   • 1900 [1437], Józef Rostafiński, editor, Symbola ad historiam naturalem medii aevi = Średniowieczna historya naturalna w Polsce. Ps 2‎^[3], number 2650:

     Ber iocues, panicus

     [Ber iocues, panicus]

   • 1920 [1409], Marceli Handelsman, Antoni Rybarski, Kazimierz Tymieniecki, editors, Najdawniejsze księgi sądowe mazowieckie, volume I, number 1398, Płońsk:

     Yacom ne popasl Recziboroui poltory copi brw

     [Jakom nie popasł Reciborowi połtory kopy bru]

   • c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 95r:

     Panichium est legumen quoddam proprie fenchel ber

     [Panichium est legumen quoddam proprie fenchel ber]

• Polish: ber

• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “ber”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “ber”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
• Ewa Deptuchowa, Mariusz Frodyma, Katarzyna Jasińska, Magdalena Klapper, Dorota Kołodziej, Mariusz Leńczuk, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, editors (2023), “ber”, in Rozariusze z polskimi glosami. Internetowa baza danych [Dictionaries of Polish glosses, an Internet database] (in Polish), Kraków: Pracownia Języka Staropolskiego Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Borrowed from Middle Low German bâr／bare

ber m ?

1. bear

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  Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Lehr-Spławiński, T., Polański, K. (1962) “ber”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), number 1 (A – ďüzd), Wrocław, Warszawa etc.: Ossolineum, page 30
• Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “ber”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 37
• Olesch, Reinhold (1962) “Báar”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volumes 1: A – O, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 10

Inherited from Old Polish ber.

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• Rhymes: -ɛr
• Syllabification: ber

ber m inan

1. foxtail millet (Setaria italica)

or

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛr/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛr
• Syllabification: ber

ber f

1. genitive plural of bera

• ber in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “ber”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Danuta Lankiewicz (22.02.2016) “BER”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “ber”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “ber”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “ber”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 115

ber

1. present indicative of be

• bre

Tatar cardinal numbers

	1	2  >
Cardinal : ber     Ordinal : berençe

From Proto-Turkic *bīr (“one”).

ber (Cyrillic spelling бер)

1. one

Borrowed from English bear (Ursidae).

• IPA^(key): [beɾ]

ber (nominative plural bers)

1. (male or female) bear (ursid)

• IPA^(key): /bɛr/
• Rhymes: -ɛr

ber

1. feminine singular of byr

• baar

From Middle English beren, from Old English beran, from Proto-West Germanic *beran.

• IPA^(key): /biː/

ber

1. to bear, to carry

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 26

ber

1. third person singular pronoun

• bers third person plural

• Beria-English English-Beria Dictionary [provisional] ADESK, Iriba, Kobe Department, Chad