barr

From French barrir (“to trumpet; to make the sound of an elephant”), from Old French barrire, from Late Latin barriō, from Latin barrus (“elephant”).

barr (third-person singular simple present barrs, present participle barring, simple past and past participle barred)

1. (obsolete) To make the sound of an elephant.
   • 1737, François Rabelais, translated by Thomas Urquhart, The Complete Works of Doctor François Rabelais:

     He gave us also the example of the Philosopher, who, when he thought most seriously to have withdrawn himself unto a solitary Privacy, far from the rufling Clutterments of the tumultuous and confused World, the better to improve his Theory, to contrive, comment, and ratiocinate, was, notwithstanding his uttermost Endeavours to free himself from all untowards Noises, surrounded and environ'd about so with the barking of Curs, howling of Wolves, neighing of Horses, bleating of Sheep, barring of Elephants, hissing of Serpents, braying of Asses, chirping of Grasshoppers, cooing of Turtles […]

See bar.

barr (countable and uncountable, plural barrs)

1. Obsolete spelling of bar.

barr (third-person singular simple present barrs, present participle barring, simple past and past participle barred)

1. Obsolete spelling of bar.

From Old Norse barr, from Proto-Germanic *baraz.

• IPA^(key): /parː/
• Rhymes: -arː

barr n (genitive singular barrs, no plural)

1. pine needles

• bárr (obsolete)

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /bˠɑːɾˠ/^[1]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /bˠaːɾˠ/^[2]

From Old Irish barr (“top”),^[3] from Proto-Celtic *barros (compare Middle Welsh barr), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers-.

barr m (genitive singular bairr or barr, nominative plural barra)

1. tip, head, point
2. top; summit
3. surface
4. (agriculture) crop, yield
5. crest (of wavelength)

Alternative declension

• cafarr (“helmet, headpiece; kerchief”)

barr (present analytic barrann, future analytic barrfaidh, verbal noun barradh, past participle barrtha)

1. (transitive) top

From Old French barre, barrer. Compare English bar.

barr m (genitive singular bairr)

1. bar, hindrance

barr (present analytic barrann, future analytic barrfaidh, verbal noun barradh, past participle barrtha)

1. (transitive) bar, hinder

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “barr”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “barr”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “barr”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

• IPA^(key): /barr/

From Arabic بَرّ (barr).

barr m

1. wilderness

Onomatopoeic.

barr (imperfect jborr)

1. to coo (make a coo sound)

From Proto-Celtic *barros (compare Irish barr), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers-.

• IPA^(key): /bar/

barr m (plural barriau)

1. top
2. summit, crest

• Welsh: bar

From Proto-Celtic *barros (compare Middle Welsh barr), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers-.

• IPA^(key):

barr m (genitive bairr)

1. tip
2. top

• cathbarr (“battle helmet”)

• Irish: barr
• Manx: baar
• Scottish Gaelic: bàrr

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 barr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Germanic *baraz.

barr n

1. acicular leaves, needles (of the fir or pine)
2. barley

• Icelandic: barr
• Faroese: barr
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bar
• Old Swedish: bar
  • Swedish: barr

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “barr”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 42; also available at the Internet Archive

• bar
• bař (Pan-Vlax)

Inherited from Sanskrit *वर्त (varta, “round stone”).^[1][2]

barr m (nominative plural barra)

1. (International Standard) stone,^[2][3] rock^[3]

From Old Norse barr.

• Hyphenation: barr

barr n

1. needle; leaf of a coniferous tree
2. (dated, slang, uncountable) hair

• granbarr, tallbarr

• barra

• burr

• barr on the Swedish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^sv

barr c

1. (gymnastics) parallel bars

• barr in Svensk ordbok.