# -bar
## Danish
### Suffix

-bar
* -able

#### Usage notes

Truncates final schwa: ‎læse + ‎-bar → ‎læsbar.

#### Synonyms

* -lig
* -abel (mostly with Romance words)

#### Derived terms
## German
### Etymology

From Middle High German -bære, from Old High German -bāri, from Proto-Germanic *bēriz.
The modern vowel -a- is after the adverb form (Middle High German -bāre, Old High German -bāro), which came to be used in predicative and then also in attributive position. This development was especially Low and Central German (compare Middle Low German -bār(e) alongside -bēr(e)). Also cognate with Dutch -baar, West Frisian -ber, Old English -bǣre. Old Norse -bærr (Old Swedish -bǣr). This suffix is said to be West Germanic, so the Old Norse form is probably an early Middle Low German borrowing.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baːɐ̯/ (standard)
* IPA: /baː/, /bɐ/ (common speech)
* Audio:(file)
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* Homophones: bar, Bar

### Suffix

-bar
* -able, -ible
    Synonym: -abel

#### Derived terms
### References

* ↑ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “-bar”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN

## Hamer-Banna
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /-bar/, [-bar̥]

### Suffix

-bar
* adessive suffix

#### Derived terms
### References

* Petrollino, Sara (2016) A Grammar of Hamar: A South Omotic language of Ethiopia‎, Leiden University

## Northern Kurdish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɑːɾ/

### Etymology 1

From bar (“burden; responsibility”), ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”).

#### Suffix

-bar (Arabic spelling ـبار)
* Used to form adjectives with a figurative meaning of “bearing”:-y, -ed
    ‎tawan (“guilt; crime; sin”) + ‎-bar → ‎tawanbar (“accused, suspected; guilty”)

### Etymology 2

Generally synonymous with ber- (from ber (“front”)), an adjective-forming prefix used for giving the sense of readiness for something (eg. berşûştin (clothes prepared for washing, laundry)) but also comparable to -able (compare berpirs (“responsible”)). Recently has been combined with -bar of Germanic languages, such as German -bar, Dutch -baar.

#### Suffix

-bar (Arabic spelling ـبار)
* Used to form adjectives meaning “able to be done”: -able, -ible
    ‎xwarin (“to eat”) + ‎-bar → ‎xwarinbar (“edible”)

##### Derived terms
### Etymology 3

Cognate with ber (“in front of”), from Proto-Iranian *upári (“above; over”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *upári (“above; over”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *upér (“above; over”).

#### Suffix

-bar (Arabic spelling ـبار)
* (rare) in front, beside, or close to

### References

* Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “-bar III”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 32

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Middle Low German -bar.

### Suffix

-bar
* -able (in broad terms, but not always). This suffix converts nouns and verbs to adjectives, as well as modifying other adjectives.

#### Derived terms
### References

* “-bar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Low German -bar.

### Suffix

-bar
* -able (as above)

#### Derived terms
### References

* “-bar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Swedish -bar, borrowed from Middle Low German -bar, from Old Saxon -bari.
Cognate with native Old Swedish -bǣr (Old Norse -bærr), German -bar (from Old High German -bāri), Dutch -baar, Old English -bære.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌbɑːr/

### Suffix

-bar
* -able; create an adjective from a noun or verb

#### Derived terms
### References

* ↑ -bar in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

### Anagrams

* bra