# lager
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈlɑːɡə/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈlɑɡɚ/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑːɡə(ɹ)
* Homophones: laager; logger (father-bother merger)

### Etymology 1

From German Lagerbier (“beer made for storing”), from Lager (“store”). Cognate with native English lair.

#### Noun

lager (plural lagers)
* A type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast.

##### Coordinate terms

* ale
* bitter
* lambic
* pilsner
* porter
* stout
* weissbier

##### Derived terms

* cooking lager
* lager-beer
* lager-conditioned
* lagered up
* lagering
* lagerita
* lager lout
* lagerphone
* lager top

##### Descendants

* → Irish: lágar
* → Scottish Gaelic: làgar
* → Welsh: lager

##### Translations
#### Verb

lager (third-person singular simple present lagers, present participle lagering, simple past and past participle lagered)
* To store (lager beer) at a low temperature for maturing and clarification.

#### See also

* ale

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

lager (plural lagers)
* Alternative spelling of laager

#### Verb

lager (third-person singular simple present lagers, present participle lagering, simple past and past participle lagered)
* Alternative spelling of laager

### Anagrams

* Agler, Alger, Elgar, Large, Ragle, ergal, glare, large, regal

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlaːˀɣər/, [ˈlæˀjɐ], [ˈlæˀɐ]
* Rhymes: -aːˀər

### Etymology 1

From German Lager, cognate with Danish lejr.

#### Noun

lager n (singular definite lageret, plural indefinite lagre)
* store, warehouse

##### Inflection
### Etymology 2

Abbreviation of lagerøl.

#### Noun

lager c (singular definite lageren, plural indefinite lagere)
* (rare) lager (type of beer)

##### Synonyms

* lagerøl

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlaː.ɣər/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: la‧ger
* Rhymes: -aːɣər

### Etymology 1

From German Lager; doublet of leger.

#### Noun

lager m or n (plural lagers, diminutive lagertje n)
* bearing (a metal block or other construction holding a rotating axis in position)

##### Derived terms

* kegellager
* kogellager

### Etymology 2

From German Lager, shortening of Lagerbier (“lager beer”), a compound of Lager (“storehouse”) + Bier (“beer”).

#### Noun

lager n (plural lagers, diminutive lagertje n)
* (archaic) beer of low fermentation

### Etymology 3

Likely borrowed from German Lager (“storehourse”), with semantic influence from Afrikaans laer.

#### Noun

lager n (plural lagers)
* (historical) laager (wagon fort used by Boers, especially Voortrekkers)

##### Hypernyms

* wagenburg
* wagenfort

### Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

lager
* comparative degree of laag

##### Descendants

* Berbice Creole Dutch: lagri

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlaː.ɡɐ]
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

lager
* first-person singular present of lagern (colloquial)
* singular imperative of lagern (colloquial)

## Icelandic
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Lager.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlaːɣɛr/

### Noun

lager m (genitive singular lagers, nominative plural lagerar)
* stock, inventory
* store, stock room

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “stock”): vörubirgðir
* (antonym(s) of “store”): vörugeymsla

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1

From German Lager.

#### Noun

lager n (definite singular lageret, indefinite plural lager or lagre, definite plural lagra or lagrene)
* a warehouse
* a bearing (mechanical part)

##### Derived terms

* lagerføre
* lagerrom
* varelager

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

lager
* present tense of lage

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɑːɡər/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ər
* Hyphenation: lag‧er

#### Noun

lager m
* indefinite plural of lag

### References

* “lager” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* alger, galer, lagre, large, regal, regla

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From German Lager.

### Noun

lager n (definite singular lageret, indefinite plural lager, definite plural lagera)
* a warehouse
* a bearing (mechanical part)

#### Derived terms

* lagerføre
* lagerrom
* varelager

### References

* “lager” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈla.ɡɛr/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aɡɛr
* Syllabification: la‧ger

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Lagerbier.

#### Noun

lager m animal or m inan
* lager (type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast)
    Synonym: leżak
    Hypernym: piwo

##### Derived terms

* lagrować impf

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Lager. Doublet of lagier and łagier.

#### Noun

lager m inan (related adjective lagrowy)
* (historical) Alternative form of lagier

##### Derived terms

* lagrowiec

### Further reading

* lager in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* lager in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* lager in PWN's encyclopedia

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɑːɡɛr/
* Audio; “ett lager”:(file)

### Etymology 1

German Lager, from Middle High German leger, from Old High German legar, from Proto-West Germanic *legr. Doublet of läger (“place to sleep”).

#### Noun

lager n (countable)
* a store, a warehouse (a place where things are stored, for example before they are moved out to the sales area in a shop)
* a supply, stock (the things in a store)
    Synonym: förråd n
* a layer (a single thickness of some material covering a surface)
* a stratum (one of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another)
    Synonym: skikt n
* (mechanical engineering) a bearing (a mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction, especially between rotating parts)

##### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | lager | lagers |
| singular | definite | lagret | lagrets |
| plural | indefinite | lager | lagers |
| plural | definite | lagren | lagrens |

##### Derived terms

* folklager
* glidlager
* höglager
* kullager
* lagerbock
* lagerbyggnad
* lagerföra
* lagergång
* lagerhus
* lagerlista
* lagerrensning
* lageröl
* lagra
* rullager

### Etymology 2

From Old Swedish laver, laur, laghur, lagher, laghir, from Middle Dutch lauwer, ultimately from Latin laurus.

#### Noun

lager c (countable or uncountable)
* laurel
* (figuratively, usually in the plural) a crown of laurel, an academic merit
    där de härliga lagrarna growhere the wonderful laurels grow (i.e. at the university)
    vila inte på lagrarnadon't rest on your laurels (don't let old victories make you lazy)

##### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | lager | lagers |
| singular | definite | lagern | lagerns |
| plural | indefinite | lagrar | lagrars |
| plural | definite | lagrarna | lagrarnas |

##### Derived terms

* lagerbär
* lagerkrans

### Etymology 3

Clipping of lageröl, from lager (“store”) +‎ öl (“beer”).

#### Noun

lager c (countable or uncountable)
* lager (a type of beer)

##### Declension
### Further reading

* lager in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
* lager in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

### Anagrams

* Alger, alger, regla

## Uzbek
### Noun

lager (plural lagerlar)
* camp