# barre
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French barre. Doublet of bar.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /bɑː/
* (General American) enPR: bär, IPA: /bɑɹ/, [bɑɹ], [bɑ˞]
* (General Australian) IPA: /baː/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (UK):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
* Homophones: baa, bah (in some pronunciations)

### Noun

barre (plural barres)
* (ballet) A handrail fixed to a wall used for ballet exercises.
* (music) Short for barre chord.

#### Translations
### Verb

barre (third-person singular simple present barres, present participle barring, simple past and past participle barred)
* (music) To form a barre chord on an instrument.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

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

## Albanian
### Noun

barre
* indefinite dative/ablative singular of barrë

## Basque
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bare/ [ba.re]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -are, -e
* Hyphenation: ba‧rre

### Noun

barre inan
* laughter

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “barre”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
* “barre”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

## Danish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /barə/, [ˈb̥ɑːɑ]

### Noun

barre c (singular definite barren, plural indefinite barrer)
* ingot
* bar
* (gymnastics) parallel bars, uneven bars

#### Further reading

* barre on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{da}$

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

barre
* inflection of bar:
** masculine/feminine singular attributive
** definite neuter singular attributive
** 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: /baʁ/ ~ /bɑʁ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

barre f (plural barres)
* bar, cake, ingot
* (typography) Clipping of barre oblique: the slash mark ⟨/⟩
* (typography) Clipping of barre de fraction: the fraction slash ⟨⁄⟩
* (typography) Clipping of barre inscrite: the bar diacritics ⟨̵⟩, ⟨̶⟩, ⟨̷⟩, and ⟨̸⟩
* (typography) Clipping of barre verticale: the vertical bar ⟨|⟩
* (typography, improper) Clipping of barre oblique inversée: the backslash ⟨\⟩
* (nautical) helm, tiller
* (heraldry) bend sinister

#### Derived terms

* à la barre
* barre de mesure
* barre de recherche
* barre d’outils
* barre fixe
* barre inscrite
* barre oblique
* barre oblique inverse
* barre oblique inversée
* barre russe
* barre transversale
* barre verticale
* barres asymétriques
* barres parallèles
* barreur
* coup de barre
* point barre
* redresser la barre
* se taper des barres
* tenir la barre

#### Descendants

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

### Further reading

* “barre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* arbre

## Italian
### Noun

barre f
* plural of barra

### Anagrams

* berrà

## Latin
### Noun

barre
* vocative singular of barrus

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* barr, bar, bare

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbar(ə)/

### Noun

barre (plural barres)
* barrier, obstruction

#### Descendants

* English: bar (see there for further descendants)

#### 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):(file)

### Noun

barre f (plural barres)
* (Jersey, nautical) helm, tiller; reef
* (Jersey, cycling) crossbar

#### Synonyms

* (crossbar): barre dé travèrs

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

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

### Noun

barre m (definite singular barren, indefinite plural barrer, definite plural barrene)
* a bar or ingot (of precious metal)
* 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)
* 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: /ˈbarə/

### Noun

barre oblique singular, f (oblique plural barres, nominative singular barre, nominative plural barres)
* bar (solid, more or less rigid object with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length)
** 12th 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)

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈba.ʁi/ [ˈba.hi]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈba.ʁi/ [ˈba.hi]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈba.ʁi/ [ˈba.χi]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈba.ʁe/ [ˈba.he]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈba.ʁɨ/
* Rhymes: (Brazil) -aʁi, (Portugal) -aʁɨ
* Homophone: varre (Porto)
* Hyphenation: bar‧re

### Verb

barre
* inflection of barrar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative
* third-person singular present indicative of barrir

## Spanish
### Verb

barre
* inflection of barrar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative
* inflection of barrer:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative