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Abbreviation of English Bavarian, German Bairisch, or Bavarian Boarisch.

bar

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Bavarian.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Bavarian terms

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɑː/

  • Audio (UK):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɑɹ/, [bɑɹ], [bɑ˞]

  • Audio (US):

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• (Australia) IPA^(key): /bäː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: bar
• Homophones: baa, bah (in some pronunciations)

From Middle English barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin. Doublet of barre.

bar (countable and uncountable, plural bars)

1. A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.

   The window was protected by steel bars.

2. (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.

   Ancient Sparta used iron bars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloy, to physically discourage the use of money.

   We are expecting a carload of bar tomorrow.

3. A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.

   bar of chocolate

   bar of soap

5. A broad shaft, band, or stripe.

   a bar of light

   a bar of colour

6. A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
7. (typography) Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.

   Hyponyms: pipe, strikethrough, macron

8. (mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
9. (physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
11. A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.

    Synonyms: barroom, ginshop, (British) pub, public house, tavern; see also Thesaurus:pub

    The street was lined with all-night bars.

13. The counter of such premises.

    Hyponym: wet bar

    Step up to the bar and order a drink.

14. A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
15. (by extension, in combination) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.

    a coffee bar

    a juice bar

16. An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.

    a burger bar

    a local fish bar

17. An establishment offering cosmetic services.

    a nail bar

    a brow bar

18. An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.

    Synonyms: ban, prohibition

    The club has lifted its bar on women members.

    • 1959 May, “Accommodation for Non-Smokers”, in Railway Magazine, pages 295-296:

      The Chief Medical Officer of London Transport believes that public opinion against smoking will harden to the point of a total bar on the Underground, as in other countries.

19. Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
    • 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, Act V, page 83:

      Muſt I new bars to my own joy create?

    • 1987 February 1, Nancy A. Coleman, “Foster Care: Case By Case Basis”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 28, page 5:

      Sexual preference or orientation shall not be a bar to becoming a foster parent.

    • 2013, Terence Dillon, A Long Way Home, page 184:

      Mr Harding could look back on his initial judgement of Paul's talent with great satisfaction while Paul could reflect that to be Irish was not necessarily a bar to progress.

20. (UK, Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
21. (UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
22. (US, Philippines, law, usually with the) The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.

    He's studying hard to pass the Bar this time; he's failed it twice before.

23. (law, metonymic, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.

    He was called to the bar. ― He became a barrister.

24. (telecommunications, electronics) One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.

    I don't have any bars in the middle of this desert.

25. (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.

    Synonym: measure

26. (music) One of those musical sections.
    1. (slang, hip-hop, chiefly in the plural) Hip-hop lyrics, especially ones written and delivered skillfully.

       That rapper there, yeah, he got bars.

    2. (by extension, slang, chiefly in the plural) Something well-said or well-written.

       Coordinate terms: cinema, that's a bar

       • 2025 June 13, “Matt Miggz: Drums, Delusion, and Staying True”, in WAVS BLOG‎^[2], archived from the original on 11 March 2026:

         His musical journey, and this is a quote, is “a constant push and pull between self awareness and delusion”. That’s bars right there to be honest.

27. (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
29. (figurative) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome; a standard or expectation.

    to set the bar high/low

    to raise the bar

    • 2020 March 10, Kathy Gilsinan, quoting Eliot Cohen, “Confessions of an Ex–Never Trumper”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic‎^[3], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 3 February 2026:

      […] there’s no World War III now, but in the words of the prominent Never Trumper and Atlantic contributor Eliot Cohen, “that’s a pretty low bar.”

30. (soccer, most codes) The crossbar.
    • 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC‎^[4], archived from the original on 4 February 2026:

      Composed play then saw Sam Ricketts nutmeg Ashley Cole before Taylor whipped a fine curling effort over Petr Cech's bar.

31. (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
32. An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
34. (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially:
    2. A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water; a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).

       Synonym: bank

       Hyponym: sandbar

       • 1868, “Route 20: London to Tiflis […] ”, in Handbook for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland, 2nd edition, London: John Murray, page 320:

         Travellers change at Batoum into a steamer which performs the service between that port and Poti, and which has a less draught of water to enable it to cross the bar of the river Rion.

35. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
    • 1957 February, “B.T.C. Armorial Bearings”, in Railway Magazine, page 81:

      On the fesse are two bars wavy azure for waterways.

    Coordinate terms: barrulet, closet

36. A city gate, in some British place names.

    Temple Bar, London

37. (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
38. (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
39. (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
40. (farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
41. (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
42. (slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
    • 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, “The First Shag in Ages”, in Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 151:

      Tell Sick Boy tae gie us a bell if ye see um. The bastard owes us twenty fuckin bar.

43. (recreational drugs) A small, tablet-shaped dose of Xanax, typically containing two milligrams and able to be split into quarters.

• (heraldry): Ordinary on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at [5]

From Middle English barren, from Old French barrer,^[1] from Medieval Latin barrare (“to bar”), from the noun. Cognate to Occitan barrar, Spanish barrar, Portuguese barrar.

Preposition properly imperative of the verb. Compare barring.

bar (third-person singular simple present bars, present participle barring, simple past and past participle barred)

2. (transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).

   Our way was barred by a huge rockfall.

   • 1906 August, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 1, stanza V, page 47:

     'One kiss, my bonny sweetheart, I'm after a prize to-night, / But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light; / Yet, if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day, / Then look for me by moonlight, / Watch for me by moonlight, / I'll come to thee by moonlight, though Hell should bar the way.'

3. (transitive) To prohibit.

   I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred.

4. (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.

   to bar the door

5. To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 208, column 1:

     I lived in a hut in the yard. To be out of the chaos I would sometimes get into the accountant’s office. It was built of horizontal planks, and so badly put together that, as he bent over his high desk, he was barred from neck to heels with narrow strips of sunlight.

• (obstruct): block, hinder, obstruct
• (prohibit): ban, interdict, prohibit, foreclose (formal)
• (lock or bolt with a bar):
• See also Thesaurus:hinder

• → Esperanto: bari

bar

1. Except, other than, besides.

   Synonyms: apart from, barring, except for, excepting, excluding, other than, save; see also Thesaurus:except

   He invited everyone to his wedding bar his ex-wife.

   • 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter I, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, page 5:

     "I might be a fool," the younger man admitted quietly, "even an idiot, but there's not a person living, bar you, who possess the courage to call me a weakling, Sir."

   • 2019 October, Philip Sherratt, “Midland Main Line upgrade presses on”, in Modern Railways, page 62:

     These see the overhead wires installed on all bar the slow lines between Bedford and Wellingborough by next May, with the remaining section completed by August, when the full programme is due to be completed.

• bar none
• all over bar the shouting

bar (not comparable)

1. (horse racing) Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.

   Leg At Each Corner is at 3/1, Lost My Shirt 5/1, and it's 10/1 bar.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1914), “bar”, in The Century Dictionary […], volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 446.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”), as a variant of earlier barye and barad. First attested as sense 2 by suggestion of Theodore William Richards in 1903, while sense 1 was proposed by Vilhelm Bjerknes, who first published about it in 1906 as German Bar, see there for more.

bar (plural bars)

2. A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, i.e. a megadyne per square centimetre. [from 1905]
   • 1905 April, Vagn Walfrid Ekman, On the use of insulated water-bottles and reversing thermometers (Publications de circonstance; 23), Copenhagen: Andr. Fred. Høst & fils, page 6:

     […] where $V_0$ is the volume of sea-water at atmospheric pressure, and $-\delta V$ the decrease of volume cased by an increase of pressure $p$ measured in 100 Bars. [footnote:] The unit Bar = 1 megadyne per cm² has lately been proposed by Prof. V. Bjerknes, who has pointed out the great advantage of this unit over the "atmosphere", to which it is aproximately equal.

4. (obsolete) A dyne per square centimetre, i.e. a microbar in the modern sense. [1903–1900s]

   Synonyms: barye, barad

   • 1903 December, Theodore William Richards, Wilfred Newsome Stull, New Method for Determining Compressibility, Washington: Carnegie Institution, page 42f.:

     It is a matter of great regret that the scientific world has not agreed upon a less arbitrary unit of pressure than the "atmosphere." The difficulty is now increased by the frequent technical use of this word to designate the pressure of a kilogram per square centimeter. The growing tendency toward the adoption of the c.g.s. system suggests the use of a consistent unit for this dimension also. Might not the pressure of a dyne per square centimeter be suitably called a bar? (Greek βαρος, pressure, weight.)

   • 1909 July, Arthur Edwin Kennelly, C. A. Wright, J. S. van Bylevelt, “The convection of heat from small copper wires”, in Proceedings of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, volume 28, number 7, page 706:

     In Column II of the foregoing table, the air-pressure in the tank is recorded in megabars. The c.g.s. unit of pressure, 1 dyne per sq. cm. has been called the "bar"; so that the megabar is 10⁶ dynes per sq. cm.

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• isobar

From foobar, a phonetic respelling of FUBAR.

bar (uncountable)

1. (programming) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.

   Suppose we have four objects, foo, bar, baz and quux.

• Bar (unit) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bar in the 1920 edition of Encyclopedia Americana.

Variant of bear.

bar (plural bars)

1. (US, archaic, dialect) A bear.
   • 1849 November 10, The Spirit of the Times, New York, page 542, column 3:

     ‘You see,’ continued he, ‘my wife wanted a new bar-skin petticoat, and Sal, that gal of our’n, kept pesterin me ’bout some bar’s ile to slick her har with, (as the fellers didn’t like to see her mommock her head with taller,) so as how I couldn’t rest. Well, one Sunday morning, I took ‘Brown Betsy,’ my old two shooter, and all the dogs, and off I sot for the cane brake in the hollow, over back of Ike Hamberlin’s, the steam doctor’ — for I know’d Ike would be tarnation riley if I kilt a bar any where close to his clearin, and that made me sorter ambitious like.

• Rab, Bra, ABR, bra, arb, Arb., ARB, abr., RBA

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌɾ/
• Hyphenation: bar

bár m (plural baritté f)

1. night
2. age

Declension of bár
absolutive	bár
predicative	bára
subjective	barí
genitive	bartí
Postpositioned forms l-case báral k-case bárak t-case bárat h-case bárah

• bartikimbir
• bartikimbiró

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “bar”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[6], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

From Dutch bar.

• IPA^(key): [bar]

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bar (attributive barre, comparative barder, superlative barste)

1. barren

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ

Uncertain. Possibly:

1. From Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- (“tip, point”), whence also Latin far (“emmer, spelt”), Proto-Germanic *baraz (“barley”) and Proto-Slavic *boršьno (“flour”).^[1][2]
2. Akin to Ancient Greek φάρμακον (phármakon, “drug, medicine”), from a tentative common Proto-Indo-European root *bʰer- (“cure with herbs”).^[3][4]
3. From Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH- (“to grow”), whence also Ancient Greek φυτόν (phutón, “plant”), Old Armenian բոյս (boys, “plant”).^[5]

Noun 2 sense 4 is likely a semantic loan from English weed, French herbe or Italian erba.

bar m (plural barëra)

1. grass
2. meadow, grassfield

   Synonym: lëndinë

3. (figurative) tasteless food

bar m (indefinite barna)

1. medicine, medication, herb

   Synonym: ilaç

2. poison (for insects or other animals)
3. (figurative) solution (for a difficult situation)
5. (colloquial) weed, marijuana

• Bardhi, Frang (1635), Dictionarium Latino Epiroticum (overall work in Latin and Albanian), page 53: “magnes — aste gna baar ghi hiec becurine vetehei”
• Jungg, G. (1895), “baar”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 3*
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[7], 1980, pages 95–98
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[8], 1980, page 98

Internationalism, ultimately from English bar.

bar m (plural bare)

1. bar (place serving drinks)

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[9], 1980, page 98

Internationalism, compare German Bar, French bar, English bar, ultimately from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros).

bar m (plural barë)

1. (physics) bar (unit of pressure)

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[10], 1980, page 98

• IPA^(key): [bɑɾ]

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Borrowed from Persian بار.

bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)

1. fruit

   Synonym: meyvə

2. crop, harvest, yield

   Synonym: məhsul

3. (figurative) fruit (an end result, effect, or consequence)

   Synonym: bəhrə

4. (archaic) burden

   Synonym: yük

Ultimately from English bar.

bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)

1. bar (a business selling alcoholic drinks)

Internationalism; ultimately from French bar, from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros).

bar

1. (meteorology) bar (unit of pressure)

• Orucov, Əliheydər, editor (2006), “bar”, in Azərbaycan dilinin izahlı lüğəti [Explanatory Dictionary of the Azerbaijani Language]‎^[11] (in Azerbaijani), 2nd edition, volume 1, Baku: Şərq-Qərb, page 219

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈbar]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈbar], [ˈba]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Borrowed from English bar. Doublet of barra.

bar m (plural bars)

1. bar (establishment where alcohol is served)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).

bar m (plural bars)

1. bar (unit of measure)

Variant of archaic bare, from Old Catalan baare, derived from the nominative case of baador, a variant of bausador (whence Catalan bausador), borrowed from Old Occitan; of uncertain origin but probably related to German böse (“evil”).^[1]

bar m or f (masculine and feminine plural bars)

1. (obsolete) traitorous

bar m or f by sense (plural bars)

1. (obsolete) traitor

• biar (Luserna)

From Middle High German wir, from Old High German wir, from Proto-West Germanic *wiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *wīz.

bar

1. (Sette Comuni) we

   Synonym: bandare

   Bar zeinan bèllase. ― We are Italians.

   Bar zeinda. ― We are here.

   Bar habanze galummet. ― We took them.

• “bar” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974), Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

From Proto-Turkic *bār.

bar

1. there is, there are, indicates existence or possession

   Antonym: yoq

bar

1. second-person singular imperative of barmaq (“to go, to arrive”)

• IPA^(key): /bar/

Borrowed from English bar.

bar m inan

1. bar (a business selling beverages)
2. bar (the counter of such a premises)
3. bar (a cabinet used to store alcoholic drinks in a private house or a hotel room)

Borrowing from modern European languages, originally coined based on Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).

bar m

1. bar, a non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals

• “bar”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “bar”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

From Latin bibere.

bar (second-person plural present baite)

1. to drink

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaːˀr/, [ˈb̥ɑˀ]
• Rhymes: -aːˀr

From Old Danish bar, Old West Norse berr (with ʀ-umlaut), from Proto-Germanic *bazaz.

bar (neuter bart, plural and definite singular attributive bare)

1. bare, naked

   Synonym: nøgen

2. sheer, pure

Borrowed from English bar.

bar c (singular definite baren, plural indefinite barer)

1. bar (business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages, counter of such a premises)

From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).

bar c (singular definite baren, plural indefinite bar)

1. bar (unit of pressure)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bar

1. past tense of bære

• “bar” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /bɑr/
• Hyphenation: bar
• Rhymes: -ɑr

Borrowed from English bar.

bar m (plural bars, diminutive barretje n)

1. a bar, counter, drink cabinet
2. a bar, pub serving alcohol

• Types of establishment

• → Caribbean Javanese: bar
• → Indonesian: bar

Doublet of baar (“bare”), which see for more. Baar continues the Middle Dutch inflected stem, bar the uninflected stem.

bar (comparative barder, superlative barst)

1. harsh, tough (used mainly with koude (“cold”), or omstandigheden (“conditions”))
2. barren, inhospitable, bare
3. crude, grim, unfriendly

Declension of bar
uninflected	bar
inflected	barre
comparative	barder
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		bar	barder	het barst het barste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	barre	bardere	barste
	n. sing.	bar	barder	barste
	plural	barre	bardere	barste
definite		barre	bardere	barste
partitive		bars	barders	—

bar

1. extremely (only in a negative sense)

• barkoud
• barslecht

From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”), coined c. 1900.

bar

1. bar (a unit of pressure, equal to 100,000 pascals)

• kilobar
• megabar
• millibar

• isobaar

• → Indonesian: bar

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

• IPA^(key): /bar/

bar

1. (Rơlơm) two.

• Blood, Evangeline; Blood, Henry (1972) Vietnam word list (revised): Mnong Rolom. SIL International.

bar

1. first/third-person singular past of bera

   hetta bar ikki til

   this wasn’t possible

• IPA^(key): /baʁ/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /bɑʁ/

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• Rhymes: -aʁ

From English bar. Doublet of barre.

bar m (plural bars)

1. bar (establishment)
2. bar (counter)

• bar laitier
• pilier de bar
• resto-bar

• → Romanian: bar

From Old French bars (12th c.), from Frankish *bars, from Proto-Germanic *barsaz (“perch”). Depending on the age of the borrowing, it may not be directly from Frankish, but from later Old Dutch (cf. modern Dutch baars). The final -s was interpreted in Old French as the nominative-singular and accusative-plural suffix, leading to the backformation bar.

bar m (plural bars)

1. bass (fish)

• bar commun
• bar européen

Borrowed from English bar or German Bar. A doublet of the below.

bar m (plural bars)

1. bar (unit of pressure) [from 1922]
   • 1922, Larousse universel, volume 1, Paris: Librairie Larousse, page 198b:

     bar n. m. Unité de pression employée pour mesurer la pression atmosphérique: le bar équivaut à un million de dynes par centimètre carré.

     bar n. m. Unit of pressure used to measure the atmospheric pressure: the bar corresponds to a million dynes for square centimetre.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros). A doublet of the above.

bar m (plural bars) (obsolete)

1. tonne (1000 kg.), i.e. 1000 graves [1790s]

   Synonyms: millier, tonneau

   • 1793, Instruction abrégée sur les mesures, Paris: Imprimerie Nationale Exécutive du Louvre, page 36f.:

     Et pour avoir de même au-dessus du grave des poids dont on pût se servir pour les grandes pesées, où l'on employoit autrefois le quintal & le demi-quintal, on a regardé le poids d'eau distillée, qui répond au mètre cubique, comme une nouvelle unité à laquelle on a donné le nom de bar, dérivé d'un mot qui signifie corps pésant. Le bar équivaut à mille graves; sa dixième partie qui est le décibar, pèse cent graves, & sa centième partie qui est le centibar, pèse dix graves.

     And to likewise have weights above the grave which one could use for heavy loads, where one previously used the quintal and the half quintal, we looked at the weight of distilled water which corresponds to the cubic metre as a new unit to which we gave the nome bar, derived from a word meaning heavy body. The bar corresponds to 1000 graves, its tenth part, which is the decibar, weighs 100 graves, and its hundredth part, which is the centibar, weighs 10 graves.

   • 1840, Horace Doursther, Dictionnaire universel des poids et mesures anciens et modernes, Bruxelles: M. Hayez, page 45:

     BAR. Mot qui, dans le principe, faisait partie de la nomenclature du système métrique français, et désignait un poids de 1000 kilogrammes. Cette dénomination, aujourd'hui inusitéé, a été remplacée par celle de millier ou tonneau.

     Bar. Term which, in principle, was part of the nomenclature of the French metric system, and designated a weight of 1000 kilograms. This denomination, today rarely used, was replaced by that of millier or tonneau.

bar m (plural bars) (obsolete)

1. alternative form of bahar (“bahar, unit of weight of the East Indies”)
   • 1840, Horace Doursther, Dictionnaire universel des poids et mesures anciens et modernes, Bruxelles: M. Hayez, page 45:

     Le bahar ou candi, poids des Indes orientales, porte quelquefois aussi le nom de bar.

     The bahar, or candy, weight of the East Indies, occasionally carries the name bar.

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

Borrowed from English bar. Doublet of barra.

bar m (plural bares)

1. bar, coffee shop, café, pub (an establishment where refreshments and alcohol drinks are served)

Borrowed from English bar and this from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).

bar m (plural bares)

1. bar (unit of pressure)

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• Rhymes: -aːɐ̯

From Middle High German bar, from Old High German bar, from Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz (“bare, naked”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰosós, from *bʰos- (“bare, barefoot”). Hence the meanings "without something" (as in bar jeder Einsicht "from every point of view") and "evident to the naked eye" (attested in Middle High German bar in reference to money).

bar (not comparable)

1. bare

bar

1. in cash

   Antonym: unbar

2. pure

bar [with genitive]

1. without

   Synonyms: ohne, sonder, außer, ausschließlich

bar (invariable)

1. obsolete form of paar (“a few, couple”)

• “bar”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[12] (in German)
• “bar” in Duden online

bar

1. romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐍂

• IPA^(key): [ˈpaːr]
• Rhymes: -aːr

Borrowed from English bar (1), from Old French barre.

bar m (genitive singular bars, nominative plural barir)

1. bar (establishment offering alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises)
2. bar (counter at which such beverages are sold or offered)
3. (by extension) a counter where a buffet or a specialized kind of food is offered

Borrowed from English bar (2), from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).

bar n (genitive singular bars, nominative plural bör)

1. bar (unit of pressure)

bar

1. first/third-person singular past indicative active of bera

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbar/ [ˈbar]
• Rhymes: -ar
• Syllabification: bar
• Homophone: BAR

From Dutch bar, from English bar, from Middle English barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin.

bar (plural bar-bar)

1. bar, pub: an establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served

From Dutch bar, from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”), coined c. 1900.

bar (plural bar-bar)

1. (physics) bar: a non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level

Borrowed from Ngalum [Term?].

bar (plural bar-bar)

1. (dance) a dance performed as an expression of gratitude when the harvest is good

• “bar”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Borrowed from English bar, from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).

bar m (genitive singular bair, nominative plural bair)

1. bar (unit of pressure)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “bar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “bar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026

Unadapted borrowing from English bar. Doublet of barra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbar/
• Rhymes: -ar
• Hyphenation: bàr

bar m

1. bar (place serving drinks)

   C'è un bar qui vicino? ― Is there a bar nearby?

2. café
3. bar (unit of pressure)

• barista

bar

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

• (phonetics) IPA^(key): [pˠɑrˠ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /pˠærˠ/
• Bender phonemes: {bar}

From Proto-Micronesian *pʷara (Central Micronesian).

Cognate with Gilbertese ba (“continuous hard coral rock or ledge”) and Pohnpeian pwarapwar (“ridge cap”).

• libar

bar (construct barin, distributive barbare) (alienable, rare, archaic, poetic, literary)

1. rock, stone

   Synonym: dekā

   Eļap an barbare arin Mājro.

   The lagoon shore of Majuro is very rocky.

Now somewhat rare and archaic, with the more common word for “rock” being dekā.

Cognate with Nauruan bet (“also”), Kosraean pac (“also”) and perhaps Gilbertese naba (“also”).

bar

1. again

   Jenaaj bar lo doon.

   We'll see each other again.

2. also, too, either

   Jema ebar lale jidik innem etal.

   Father also looked over at him for a bit and then headed up.

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

bar (inalienable noun barū, causative kōbar) (intransitive)

1. empty

   Ebar aebōj jimeen̄ eo.

   The cistern is empty.

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

bar (inalienable bōra, construct bōran) (alienable)

1. (anatomy) head

   Emetak bōra.

   I have a headache.

   (literally, “My head hurts.”)

2. (by extension) top, tip

   Ejok i bōran kiju eo.

   It landed on the top of the mast.

From English bar, referring to the signal strength indicator bars on mobile phones.

bar

1. (telecommunications) signal, connection

   Ebar ļo̧k kiō.

   The signal is a little stronger now.

Cognate with Gilbertese bwara (“basket”) and Nauruan ebwar (“basket”).

bar

1. (archaic, poetic, literary) basket

• Abo, Takaji; Bender Byron W.; Capelle, Alfred; DeBrum, Tony (2009–), “bar”, in Marshallese–English Online Dictionary‎^[13]
• Nik Willson (2014), Naan‎^[14], Majuro, Marshall Islands, pages 929–30

bar

1. alternative form of barre

bar

1. Northern form of bor

Related to Persian بار (bâr).

• IPA^(key): /bɑːɾ/
• Hyphenation: Northern Kurdish
• Rhymes: -ɑːɾ

bar m

1. burden (a heavy load)

From Old Norse berr and Old Danish bar.

bar (neuter singular bart, definite singular and plural bare, comparative barere, indefinite superlative barest, definite superlative bareste)

1. bare, naked
   • 2014, "Ikke provosèr ham", by Inger Torill Jørgensen, eBokNorden AS →ISBN [15]

     Han kom tettere inn til henne, la armen rundt ryggen hennes og bøyet hodet sitt ned mot hennes bare skulder, kysset den.

     He came closer to her, put his arm around her back and bowed his head down to her bare shoulder, and kissed it.

• barbeint
• barbrystet

• berr (Nynorsk)

Borrowed from English bar.

bar m (definite singular baren, indefinite plural barer, definite plural barene)

1. a bar (place where alcohol is served)
2. a bar (sandbank at the mouth of a river or harbour)

• bartender (sense 1)

From Old Norse barr.

bar n (definite singular baret, uncountable)

1. the needles of the conifers, twigs and branches of conifers

• barskog
• bartre

From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”).

bar m (definite singular baren, indefinite plural bar, definite plural barene)

1. bar (a non-SI unit of pressure)

• millibar

bar

1. simple past of bære

• “bar” in The Bokmål Dictionary. (adjective on page 2)
• “bar_2” in Norwegian Academy Dictionary (NAOB).
• “bar_1” in Norwegian Academy Dictionary (NAOB).
• “bar_3” in Norwegian Academy Dictionary (NAOB).
• “bar_4” in Norwegian Academy Dictionary (NAOB).
• “bar_5” in Norwegian Academy Dictionary (NAOB).

• IPA^(key): /bɑːɾ/

bar

1. past tense of bera

Borrowed from English bar.

bar m (definite singular baren, indefinite plural barar, definite plural barane)

1. a bar (place where alcohol is served)
2. a bar (sandbank at the mouth of a river or harbour)

• bartender (sense 1)

From Ancient Greek βάρος (báros, “weight”), coined circa 1900.

bar m (definite singular baren, indefinite plural barar, definite plural barane)

1. bar (a non-SI unit of pressure)

• kilobar
• megabar
• millibar

• isobar

From Old Norse barr.

bar n (definite singular baret, uncountable)

1. the needles of the conifers, twigs and branches of conifers
   • 1860, Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Vaaren:

     Derfor eg fann millom Bjørkar og Bar i Vaaren ei Gaata […]

     Therefore I found, between the birches and conifers, in spring a riddle […]

• barkjuke
• barskog
• bartre
• granbar

bar (neuter bart, definite singular and plural bare, comparative barare, indefinite superlative barast, definite superlative baraste)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of berr
2. (pre-1938) alternative form of berr

• “bar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /baar/

bar

1. two

From Proto-West Germanic *bair.

• IPA^(key): /bɑːr/
• Rhymes: -ɑːr

bār m

1. boar

Strong a-stem:

• eofor

• Middle English: bor, boor, bore, boore, bar, bare, bayre (Northern)
  • English: boar
  • Middle Scots: bair
    • Scots: bair
  • Yola: boar

From Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz.

• IPA^(key): /bar/

bar

1. bare

• Middle High German: bar
  • German: bar, baar
  • Yiddish: פּאַרעוו (parev)
    • → English: parev, pareve

bar

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of bëran

• IPA^(key): /βaɾ/

bar

1. alternative form of for (“your pl”)

bar

1. first/third-person singular past indicative active of bera

From Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz.

bār

1. bare

• Middle Low German: bâr
  • German Low German: baar

• Köbler, Gerhard (2014), Altsächsisches Wörterbuch‎^[16] (in German), 5th edition

Likely from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *barbar (“to spread out, unfurl”).

bar

1. (inchoative) to spread out, to unfurl
   • c. late 15th century, Bujangga Manik, line 936:

     na layar ma(n)jĕ(r) kĕ(m)bang, hir na angin bar na layar.

     The sails bloom like flowers, the wind blows, the sails unfurl....

• Noorduyn, J; Teeuw, A (2006), Three Old Sundanese Poems‎^[17], Leiden: K.I.T.L.V. Press, →ISBN

From Old Norse *barr (Old West Norse berr), from Proto-Germanic *bazaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰosós.

bar

1. bare

• Swedish: bar

Pacoh cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : bar     Ordinal : abar

From Proto-Katuic *ɓaar, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɓaar.

• IPA^(key): [ɓaːr]

bar

1. two

• IPA^(key): /ˈbar/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ar
• Syllabification: bar
• Homophone: Bar

Borrowed from English bar.

bar m inan (diminutive barek, related adjective barowy)

1. bar, public house (business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves)
2. bar, luncheon bar, buffet, wet bar (area for the preparation of alcoholic drinks, equipped with a countertop having a sink and running water and usually located in a home, hotel room, or similar quarters)

   Synonym: bufet

Learned borrowing from New Latin barium.

Chemical element (edit)
Ba Atomic number 56 bar
Classification data Period 6 Group 2 Block s-block Class alkaline earth metal
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bar m inan (related adjective barowy)

1. barium (chemical element (symbol Ba) with an atomic number of 56)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros).

bar m inan (related adjective baryczny)

1. bar (non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level)

• “bar”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[18] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “bar”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[19] (in Polish)
• bar in PWN's enc

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