barre

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French barre. Doublet of bar.

Noun

barre (plural barres)

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

Translations

Verb

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.

Translations

Anagrams

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

Basque

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• IPA^(key): /bare/,

Noun

barre inan

1. laughter

Declension

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /barə/,

Noun

barre c (singular definite barren, plural indefinite barrer)

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

Inflection

Further reading

• barre on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Adjective

barre

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

French

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baʁ/, /bɑʁ/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

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

Derived terms

Descendants

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

Further reading

• “barre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Anagrams

• arbre

Italian

Noun

barre f

1. plural of barra

Anagrams

• berrà

Latin

Noun

barre

1. vocative singular of barrus

Middle English

Alternative forms

• barr, bar, bare

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbar(ə)/

Noun

barre (plural barres)

1. barrier, obstruction

Descendants

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

References

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

Norman

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey)

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Noun

barre f (plural barres)

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

Synonyms

• (crossbar): barre dé travèrs

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

barre

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

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

Noun

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)

Derived terms

• gullbarre

References

• “barre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• NAOB

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From German Barren, from French barre and Latin barra.

Noun

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

1. a bar or ingot (of precious metal)

Derived terms

• gullbarre

References

• “barre” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *barra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbarə/

Noun

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

Derived terms

• barriere

Descendants

• 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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

Spanish

Verb

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