барам

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *barati (“to seek, to examine”).

• IPA^(key):

• Audio:

  (file)

ба́рам • (báram) first-singular present indicative, impf (perfective ба́рна)

1. (transitive) to touch, to grope
2. (transitive, figurative) to handle (work, instrument)
3. (transitive, figurative) to tinker, to meddle, to pry
4. (transitive, dialectal) to seek via touch, to grope after
5. (reflexive with се) to paw, to feel up oneself via touch

   барам се по главата

   baram se po glavata

   to pat one's head (in order to feel it)

• ба́рвам (bárvam) (semelfactive)
• доба́рам pf (dobáram), доба́рвам impf (dobárvam)
• изба́рам pf (izbáram), изба́рвам impf (izbárvam)
• наба́рам pf (nabáram), наба́рвам impf (nabárvam)
• оба́рам pf (obáram), оба́рвам impf (obárvam)
• поба́рам pf (pobáram), поба́рвам impf (pobárvam)
• преба́рам pf (prebáram), преба́рвам impf (prebárvam)
• сба́рам pf (sbáram), сба́рвам impf (sbárvam)

• бора́вя (borávja, “to utilize”)

• “барам”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “барам”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “барам, барвам, барна”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 33

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ба‧рам

барам • (baram)

1. first-person singular present of бара (bara)

• IPA^(key):

ба́рам • (báram) m inan pl

1. dative plural of бар (bar)

ба́рам • (báram) m anim pl

1. dative plural of ба́рин (bárin)