# bar

| ㍴ | U+3374, &#13172; SQUARE BAR |
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## English
### 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)

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

bar (countable and uncountable, plural bars)
* 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.
* (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.
* A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
    bar of chocolate
    bar of soap
* A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
    a bar of light
    a bar of colour
* A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
* (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
* (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.
* (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).
* 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.
* The counter of such premises.
    Synonym: wet bar
    Step up to the bar and order a drink.
* A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
* (by extension, in combination) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
    coffee bar; juice bar
* An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
    a burger bar
    a local fish bar
* An establishment offering cosmetic services.
    a nail bar; a brow bar
* An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
    Synonyms: ban, prohibition
    The club has lifted its bar on women members.
* 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.
* (programming, derived from fubar) 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.
* (UK, Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
* (UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
* (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.
* (law, metonymically, "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.
* (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.
* (music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
* (music) One of those musical sections.
    Synonym: measure
* (sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
* (figurative) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
* (soccer, most codes) The crossbar.
** 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC‎:Composed play then saw Sam Ricketts nutmeg Ashley Cole before Taylor whipped a fine curling effort over Petr Cech's bar.
* (backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
* An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
* (geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially:
** 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.
* (heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
    Coordinate terms: barrulet, closet
* A city gate, in some British place names.
    Temple Bar, London
* (mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
* (mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
* (architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
* (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.
* (farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
* (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.
* (recreational drugs) A small, tablet-shaped dose of Xanax, typically containing two milligrams and able to be split into quarters.
* (slang, hip-hop) A complimentary reference to a rapper's lyrics, especially when good.
    That rapper there, yeah, he got bars.

##### Derived terms

* address bar
* aero bar, aerobar
* Aiskew and Leeming Bar
* Ancobar
* angle bar
* anti-roll bar
* anti-sway bar
* appbar
* armbar
* at bar, at the bar
* baby bar
* bar association
* barback
* barbell
* barbell bar pad
* bar bike
* bar billiards
* barboy
* bar-breasted honeyeater (Ramsayornis fasciatus)
* barcade
* BarCamp
* bar car
* bar chair
* bar chart
* bar code, barcoder
* Bar Council
* bar crawl
* bar-crested antshrike (Thamnophilus multistriatus)
* bar ditch
* bar down
* bar exam, bar examination
* barfeed
* barfeeder
* barfight
* bar fine
* barfish (Morone spp.; Pomoxis nigromaculatus)
* bar fly, barfly
* barful
* bargirl
* bargoer, bar-goer
* bar graph
* bar-headed goose (Anser indicus)
* Bar Hill
* bar hop, barhop
* barhopper
* bar iron
* barkeep
* bar-keeper, barkeeper
* barkeeping
* barlady
* bar-lamb
* barless
* barlike
* bar line, barline
* barling
* barload
* bar lunch
* bar magnet
* barmaid, barmaiden
* barman
* barmate
* bar meal
* bar mining
* bar money
* barnight
* bar of chocolate
* bar off
* bar of soap
* bar out
* bar pad
* bar parlour
* barperson
* bar phone
* barplot
* bar point
* barpost
* bar-resto
* bar review
* barring
* barrister
* bar room
* bar shoe
* bar shot
* bar-shouldered dove (Geopelia humeralis)
* barside
* bar-sinister, bar sinister
* bar soap
* bar spin, barspin
* bar spoon
* barstaff
* bar star
* barstaurant
* bar steward
* barstock, bar stock
* bar stool
* bar syrup
* bar table
* bartack
* bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica)
* bar-tend
* bartender
* bartop
* bar up
* barwalking
* barware
* barway
* bar whore
* barwing (Actinodura spp.)
* bar-winged rail (†Nesoclopeus poecilopterus)
* barwise
* barwoman
* barwood, bar wood
* bass bar, bass-bar
* bastard bar
* beach bar
* bean-to-bar
* bebar
* beer bar
* behind bars
* behind the bar
* Bell Bar
* belly up to the bar
* biker bar
* bikini bar
* Boston Bar
* braid bar
* breaker bar
* breakfast bar
* broken bar
* broken vertical bar
* brown bar
* brushbar
* bull bar
* bumper bar
* burger bar
* burglar bar
* burning bar
* busbar, bus bar
* bush bar
* butter bar
* buttery bar
* button bar
* called within the bar
* call to the bar
* candy bar
* Carter Bar
* cash bar
* cereal bar
* Charlie bar
* chinning bar
* chin-up bar
* choco bar
* chocolate bar
* cocktail bar
* coffee bar
* color bar, colour bar
* Congo bar
* copperbar
* crash bar
* credit bar
* crowbar
* crown bar
* crush bar
* curl bar
* Curved Bar
* dairy bar
* debar
* dessert bar
* detector bar
* disbar, disbarment
* dive bar
* doré bar
* dotted bar line
* double bar
* double bar line
* draft-bar
* dragbar
* draught-bar
* drawbar
* drop bar
* dry bar
* dun-bar (Cosmia calami)
* eight-bar blues
* embar
* energy bar
* error bar
* eyebar
* fern bar
* finger bar
* firebar, fire bar
* five bar
* five-bar swordtail (Graphium antiphates)
* flashbar
* flybar
* football bar
* footbar
* forbar
* four-ale bar
* full bar
* Gantt bar
* gas bar
* gay bar
* glazing bar
* granola bar
* ground bar
* Hague Bar
* Halligan bar
* handlebar
* h-bar, h bar
* healthbar, health bar
* hex bar
* high bar
* hitching-bar
* honesty bar, honor bar
* horizontal bar
* hosted bar
* hostess bar
* hotbar, hot bar
* I-bar
* ice cream bar
* imbar
* inner bar
* isallobar
* jail bars
* J-bar
* Jesus bar
* Johnson bar
* joint bar
* judder bar
* juice bar
* kangaroo bar
* karaoke bar
* Katy bar the door, kitty bar the door
* kneebar
* know from a bar of soap
* KTV bar
* Leeming Bar
* Legbar
* lemon bar
* lesbian bar
* lifebar
* lift the bar
* lightbar
* link bar
* Logan bar
* lounge bar
* lower the bar
* luncheon bar
* lup sup bar
* Mansfield bar
* Marble Bar
* menu bar
* milk bar
* mill bar
* minibar
* monkey bars
* mosquito bar
* mouth bar
* multibar
* multi-grip bar
* nail bar
* Nanaimo bar
* navigation bar
* Nazi bar
* N-bar
* needle bar
* nerf bar
* neutral grip bar
* no host bar
* nonbar
* nosebar
* nut-bar, nutbar, nut bar
* open bar
* outer bar
* overbar
* oxygen bar
* oyster bar
* panic bar
* parallel bars
* pass the bar
* P-bar
* peeler bar
* piano bar
* pinch bar, pinchbar
* point bar
* Potters Bar
* power bar
* prison bars, prisoners' bars
* progress bar
* prop up the bar
* pry bar, prybar
* public bar
* puddle bar, puddled bar
* pull-up bar
* push-up bar
* radius bar
* raise the bar
* randle-bar
* raw bar
* rebar
* restobar
* rollbar, roll bar
* roo bar
* Russian bar
* saddle bar
* salad bar
* saloon bar
* sandbar, sand bar
* sandwich bar
* scale bar
* scrimping bar
* scroll bar
* servibar
* set the bar
* sidebar
* singles bar
* sissy bar
* sky bar
* slant bar
* slice bar
* slidebar
* snackbar, snack bar, snack-bar
* soap bar
* solebar
* soundbar
* space bar
* splinter bar
* split bar
* sports bar
* spreader bar
* spring bar
* stall bars
* starting bar
* status bar
* stir bar
* strip bar, striptease bar
* summer bar
* sway bar
* swinglebar
* Swiss bar
* taskbar
* T-bar
* tend bar
* tiebar
* tie bar
* tiki bar
* title bar
* titty bar
* tollbar, toll bar, toll-bar
* tommy bar
* tonebar
* tool-bar, toolbar, tool bar
* topbar
* torsion bar
* towbar, tow bar
* trackbar
* trap bar
* tribar
* triple bar
* twelve-bar blues, twelve bar blues
* type bar, typebar
* unbar
* underbar
* upbar
* utility bar
* V-bar
* vertical bar
* view bar
* wall bars
* waterbar, water bar
* weight bar
* wet bar
* whammy bar
* window bar
* wine bar
* wing bar
* wire bar
* work the bar
* wrecking bar
* X-bar
* Z-bar

##### Descendants

* → Albanian: bar m
* → Arabic: بَار m (bār)
* → Armenian: բար (bar)
* → Bulgarian: бар (bar)
* → Burmese: ဘား (bha:)
* → Chichewa: bála
* → Cantonese: 吧 (baa$^1$)
* → Czech: bar m
* → Danish: bar c
* → Dutch: bar m
* → Esperanto: baro
* → Estonian: baar
* → French: bar m
** → Romanian: bar
* → Galician: bar m
* → Georgian: ბარი (bari)
* → German: Bar f
* → Greek: μπαρ n (bar)
* → Gulf Arabic: بار (bār)
* → Hebrew: בָּר (bar), בָּאר (bár)
* → Hungarian: bár (also via German)
* → Icelandic: bar m
* → Irish: beár m
* → Italian: bar m
* → Japanese: バー (bā)
* → Khmer: បារ (baa)
* → Korean: 바 (ba)
* → Lithuanian: bãras m
* → Macedonian: бар m (bar)
* → Malagasy: ba
* → Mandarin: 吧 (bā)
* → Norwegian:
    Bokmål: bar m
    Nynorsk: bar m
* → Persian: بار (bâr)
* → Polish: bar m
* → Portuguese: bar m
* → Russian: бар m (bar)
* → Serbo-Croatian: ба̑р m, bȃr m
* → Slovene: bȃr m
* → Spanish: bar m
* → Swahili: baa
* → Swedish: bar c (see there for further descendants)
* → Thai: บาร์ (baa)
* → Turkish: bar
* → Xhosa: íbhári
* → Zulu: ibha

##### Translations
#### See also

* (heraldry): Ordinary on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

#### References

* The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at

### Etymology 2

From Middle English barren, from Old French barrer, 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.

#### Verb

bar (third-person singular simple present bars, present participle barring, simple past and past participle barred)
* (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.'
* (transitive) To prohibit.
    I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred.
* (transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
    to bar the door
* 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.

##### Synonyms

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

##### Derived terms

* barrable
* outbar
* unbar

##### Descendants

* → Esperanto: bari

##### Translations
#### Preposition

bar
* 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.
* (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.

##### Derived terms

* bar none
* all over bar the shouting

##### Translations
#### References

* ↑ “barren, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2018, retrieved 31 October 2019.
* William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “bar”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 446.

### Etymology 3

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

#### Noun

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

##### Derived terms

* allobar
* baric
* centibar
* decibar
* kilobar
* megabar
* microbar
* millibar
* nanobar
* picobar

##### Related terms

* isobar

##### Descendants

* → Chinese: 巴 (bā)
* → Finnish: baari
* → Galician: bar m
* → Greek: μπαρ n (bar)
* → Hebrew: בָּר (bar)
* → Icelandic: bar n
* → Irish: bar m
* → Korean: 바 (ba)
* → Spanish: bar m

##### Translations
### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

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

## Afar
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbʌɾ/
* Hyphenation: bar

### Noun

bár m (plural baritté f)
* night
* age

#### Declension

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

#### Derived terms

* bartikimbir
* bartikimbiró

### References

* 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)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch bar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [bɑɾ]
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

bar (attributive barre, comparative barder, superlative barste)
* barren

### References

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

## Albanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbaɾ/
* Rhymes: -aɾ

### Etymology 1

Uncertain. Possibly:
* From Proto-Indo-European *bʰers- (“tip, point”), whence also Latin far (“emmer, spelt”), Proto-Germanic *baraz (“barley”) and Proto-Slavic *boršьno (“flour”).
* Akin to Ancient Greek φάρμακον (phármakon, “drug, medicine”), from a tentative common Proto-Indo-European root *bʰer- (“cure with herbs”).
* From Proto-Indo-European *bʰewH- (“to grow”), whence also Ancient Greek φυτόν (phutón, “plant”), Old Armenian բոյս (boys, “plant”).
Sense 4 is likely a semantic loan from English weed, French herbe or Italian erba.

#### Noun

bar m (plural barëra)
* grass
* meadow, grassfield
    Synonym: lëndinë
* (figurative) tasteless food

##### Derived terms

* barishtak
* barishte
* barishtor
* barngrënës
* barni

#### Noun

bar m (indefinite barna)
* medicine, medication, herb
    Synonym: ilaç
* poison (for insects or other animals)
* (figurative) solution (for a difficult situation)
* (colloquial) weed, marijuana

##### Derived terms

* barna

#### References

* ↑ Meyer, G. (1891) “bar”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 26
* ↑ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “bar”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, pages 16–17
* ↑ Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q., editors (1997), “?*bher”, in Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, page 262
* ↑ Çabej, E. (1986) Studime gjuhësore (in Albanian), volume I, Prishtinë: Rilindja, page 54
* ↑ Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, pages 89–90

#### Further reading

* 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]‎, 1980, pages 95–98
* FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980, page 98

### Etymology 2

Internationalism, ultimately from English bar.

#### Noun

bar m (plural bare)
* bar (place serving drinks)

##### Declension
#### Further reading

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

### Etymology 3

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

#### Noun

bar m (plural barë)
* (physics) bar (unit of pressure)

##### Declension
#### Further reading

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

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology 1

From Persian بار.

#### Noun

bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)
* fruit
    Synonym: meyvə
* crop, harvest, yield
    Synonym: məhsul
* (figurative) fruit (an end result, effect, or consequence)
    Synonym: bəhrə
* (archaic) burden
    Synonym: yük

### Etymology 2

Ultimately from English bar.

#### Noun

bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)
* bar (a business selling alcoholic drinks)

### Etymology 3

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

#### Noun

bar
* (meteorology) bar (unit of pressure)

### Further reading

* “bar” in Obastan.com.

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Valencia) [ˈbar]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈbar], [ˈba]

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bar. Doublet of barra.

#### Noun

bar m (plural bars)
* bar (establishment where alcohol is served)

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

bar m (plural bars)
* bar (unit of measure)

### Etymology 3

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”).

#### Adjective

bar m or f (masculine and feminine plural bars)
* (obsolete) traitorous

#### Noun

bar m or f by sense (plural bars)
* (obsolete) traitor

### References

* ↑ “bar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025“bar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Cimbrian
### Alternative forms

* biar (Luserna)

### Etymology

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

### Pronoun

bar
* (Sette Comuni) we
    Synonym: bandare
    Bar zeinan bèllase. ― We are Italians.
    Bar zeinda. ― We are here.
    Bar habanze galummet. ― We took them.

#### Inflection
### References

* “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

## Crimean Tatar
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *bār.

#### Predicative

bar
* there is, there are, indicates existence or possession
    Antonym: yoq

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

bar
* second-person singular imperative of barmaq (“to go, to arrive”)

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bar/

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bar.

#### Noun

bar m inan
* bar (a business selling beverages)
* bar (the counter of such a premises)
* bar (a cabinet used to store alcoholic drinks in a private house or a hotel room)

##### Derived terms

* barový

##### Related terms

* barman

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

bar m
* bar, a non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals

##### Declension
### Further reading

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

## Dalmatian
### Etymology

From Latin bibere.

### Verb

bar (second-person plural present baite)
* to drink

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbaːˀr/, [ˈb̥ɑˀ]
* Rhymes: -aːˀr

### Etymology 1

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

#### Adjective

bar (neuter bart, plural and definite singular attributive bare)
* bare, naked
* sheer, pure

##### Derived terms

* bare
* barbenet
* barfodet
* barfrost
* barhovedet
* min bare røv

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bar.

#### Noun

bar c (singular definite baren, plural indefinite barer)
* bar (business licensed to sell intoxicating beverages, counter of such a premises)

##### Declension
### Etymology 3

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

#### Noun

bar c (singular definite baren, plural indefinite bar)
* bar (unit of pressure)

##### Declension
### Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

bar
* past tense of bære

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɑr/
* Hyphenation: bar
* Rhymes: -ɑr

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bar.

#### Noun

bar m (plural bars, diminutive barretje n)
* a bar, counter, drink cabinet
* a bar, pub serving alcohol

##### Derived terms

* barbezoek
* bardame
* barjuffrouw
* barkeeper
* barkelner
* barkruk
* barman
* barmeid
* barmeisje
* minibar
* Types of establishment
* cocktailbar
* homobar
* hotelbar
* koffiebar
* snackbar
* wijnbar

##### Descendants

* → Caribbean Javanese: bar
* → Indonesian: bar

### Etymology 2

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

#### Adjective

bar (comparative barder, superlative barst)
* harsh, tough (used mainly with koude (“cold”), or omstandigheden (“conditions”))
* barren, inhospitable, bare
* crude, grim, unfriendly

##### Declension
#### Adverb

bar
* extremely (only in a negative sense)

##### Derived terms

* barkoud
* barslecht

### Etymology 3

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

#### Noun

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

##### Derived terms

* kilobar
* megabar
* millibar

##### Related terms

* isobaar

##### Descendants

* → Indonesian: bar

### References

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

## Faroese
### Verb

bar
* first/third-person singular past of bera
    hetta bar ikki tilthis wasn’t possible

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baʁ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aʁ

### Etymology 1

From English bar. Doublet of barre.

#### Noun

bar m (plural bars)
* bar (establishment)
* bar (counter)

##### Derived terms

* bar laitier
* pilier de bar
* resto-bar

##### Descendants

* → Romanian: bar

### Etymology 2

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.

#### Noun

bar m (plural bars)
* bass (fish)

##### Derived terms

* bar commun
* bar européen

### Further reading

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

## Galician
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bar. Doublet of barra.

#### Noun

bar m (plural bares)
* bar, coffee shop, café, pub (an establishment where refreshments and alcohol drinks are served)

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

bar m (plural bares)
* bar (unit of pressure)

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aːɐ̯

### Etymology 1

From Middle High German and Old High German bar.

#### Adjective

bar (not comparable)
* bare

##### Declension
#### Adverb

bar
* in cash
* pure

#### Preposition

bar [with genitive]
* without
    Synonyms: ohne, sonder, außer, ausschließlich

### Etymology 2
#### Determiner

bar (invariable)
* Obsolete form of paar (“a few, couple”).

### Further reading

* “bar” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
* “bar” in Duden online

## Gothic
### Romanization

bar
* Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐍂

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /paːr/
* Rhymes: -aːr

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

bar m (genitive singular bars, nominative plural barir)
* bar (establishment offering alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises)
* bar (counter at which such beverages are sold or offered)
* (by extension) a counter where a buffet or a specialized kind of food is offered

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

bar n (genitive singular bars, nominative plural bör)
* bar (unit of pressure)

##### Declension
### Etymology 3
#### Verb

bar
* first/third-person singular past indicative active of bera

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbar]
* Hyphenation: Indonesian

### Etymology 1

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.

#### Noun

bar (uncountable)
* bar, pub: an establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

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

### Further reading

* “bar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
* “bar” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Irish
### Etymology

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

### Noun

bar m (genitive singular bair, nominative plural bair)
* bar (unit of pressure)

#### Declension

bare forms
singular
plural
nominative
bar
bair
vocative
a bhair
a bhara
genitive
bair
bar
dative
bar
bair
forms with the definite article
singular
plural
nominative
an bar
na bair
genitive
an bhair
na mbar
dative
leis an mbar don bhar
leis na bair :

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* “bar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English bar. Doublet of barra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbar/
* Rhymes: -ar
* Hyphenation: bàr

### Noun

bar m
* bar (place serving drinks)
    C'è un bar qui vicino? ― Is there a bar nearby?
* café
* bar (unit of pressure)

#### Derived terms

* barista

## Latvian
### Verb

bar
* inflection of bārt:
** second/third-person singular present indicative
** third-person plural present indicative
** second-person singular imperative
* (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of bārt
* (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of bārt

## Marshallese
### Pronunciation

* (phonetic) IPA: [pˠɑrˠ]
* (phonemic) IPA: /pˠærˠ/
* Bender phonemes: {bar}

### Adjective

bar
* empty

### Adverb

bar
* again
* also
* more

### Determiner

bar
* more

### Noun

bar
* head
* rock
* top; tip

### References

* Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

## Middle English
### Noun

bar
* Northern form of bor

## Northern Kurdish
### Etymology

Related to Persian بار (bâr).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɑːɾ/
* Hyphenation: Northern Kurdish
* Rhymes: -ɑːɾ

### Noun

bar m
* burden (a heavy load)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse berr and Old Danish bar.

#### Adjective

bar (neuter singular bart, definite singular and plural bare, comparative barere, indefinite superlative barest, definite superlative bareste)
* bare, naked
** 2014, "Ikke provosèr ham", by Inger Torill Jørgensen, eBokNorden AS →ISBN
    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.

##### Derived terms

* barbeint
* barbrystet

#### See also

* berr (Nynorsk)

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bar.

#### Noun

bar m (definite singular baren, indefinite plural barer, definite plural barene)
* a bar (place where alcohol is served)
* a bar (sandbank at the mouth of a river or harbour)

##### Related terms

* bartender (sense 1)

### Etymology 3

From Old Norse barr.

#### Noun

bar n (definite singular baret, uncountable)
* the needles of the conifers, twigs and branches of conifers

##### Derived terms

* barskog
* bartre

### Etymology 4

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

#### Noun

bar m (definite singular baren, indefinite plural bar, definite plural barene)
* bar (a non-SI unit of pressure)

##### Derived terms

* millibar

### Etymology 5
#### Verb

bar
* simple past of bære

### References

* “bar” in The Bokmål Dictionary. (adjective on page 2)
* “bar_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
* “bar_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
* “bar_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
* “bar_4” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
* “bar_5” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɑːr/

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

bar
* past tense of bera

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bar.

#### Noun

bar m (definite singular baren, indefinite plural barar, definite plural barane)
* a bar (place where alcohol is served)
* a bar (sandbank at the mouth of a river or harbour)

##### Related terms

* bartender (sense 1)

### Etymology 3

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

#### Noun

bar m (definite singular baren, indefinite plural barar, definite plural barane)
* bar (a non-SI unit of pressure)

##### Derived terms

* kilobar
* megabar
* millibar

##### Related terms

* isobar

### Etymology 4

From Old Norse barr.

#### Noun

bar n (definite singular baret, uncountable)
* 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 […]

##### Derived terms

* barskog
* bartre
* granbar

### Etymology 5
#### Adjective

bar (neuter bart, definite singular and plural bare, comparative barare, indefinite superlative barast, definite superlative baraste)
* (pre-2012) alternative form of berr
* (pre-1938) alternative form of berr

### References

* “bar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *bair.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɑːr/

### Noun

bār m
* boar

#### Declension

Strong a-stem:

#### Synonyms

* eofor

#### Descendants

* Middle English: bor, boor, bore, boore, bar, bare, bayre
** English: boar
** Scots: bair
** Yola: boar

## Old High German
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bar/

### Adjective

bar
* bare

#### Descendants

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

## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /var/

### Determiner

bar
* Alternative form of for (“your pl”)

## Old Norse
### Verb

bar
* first/third-person singular past indicative active of bera

## Old Saxon
### Etymology

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

### Adjective

bār
* bare

#### Descendants

* Middle Low German: bâr
** German Low German: baar

#### References

* Köbler, Gerhard, Altsächsisches Wörterbuch (5th edition 2014)

## Old Swedish
### Etymology

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

### Adjective

bar
* bare

#### Descendants

* Swedish: bar

## Pacoh
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɓaːr]

### Numeral

bar
* two

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbar/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ar
* Syllabification: bar
* Homophone: Bar

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bar.

#### Noun

bar m inan (diminutive barek, related adjective barowy)
* bar, public house (business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves)
* 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

##### Derived terms

* bar mleczny
* bar tlenowy
* barobus
* barowóz

##### Related terms

* barmański
* barista
* baristka
* barman
* barmanka

### Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from New Latin barium.

#### Noun

bar m inan (related adjective barowy)
* barium (chemical element (symbol Ba) with an atomic number of 56)

##### Declension
### Etymology 3

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek βάρος (báros).

#### Noun

bar m inan (related adjective baryczny)
* bar (non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level)

##### Declension
### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* rab

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈbaʁ/ [ˈbah]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈbaʁ/ [ˈbah]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈbaɾ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈbaʁ/ [ˈbaχ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈbaɻ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈbaɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈbaɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /ˈba.ɾi/
* (Caipira Brazil) IPA: [ˈbaɹ], [ˈbaɻ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Hyphenation: Portuguese

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bar. Doublet of barra.

#### Noun

bar m (plural bares)
* pub; bar (establishment that serves alcoholic beverages primarily)

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

bar m (plural bares)
* bar (unit of pressure)

### References

* 1 2 “bar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* 1 2 “bar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Romani
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀯𑀸𑀟 (vāḍa), from Sanskrit वाट (vāṭa) or Sanskrit वाटी (vāṭī).

#### Noun

bar f (plural barǎ)
* enclosure

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

bar m (plural bara)
* Alternative form of barr

### References

* ↑ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “vāṭa1”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 670
* 1 2 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “bar”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 20

### Further reading

* Marcel Courthiade (2009) “i/e bar I, -ǎ- ʒ. -ǎ, -ěn-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, pages 73-74

## Romanian
### Etymology

From French bar. Doublet of bară.

### Noun

bar m (plural bari)
* bar (establishment)

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bar.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bâːr/.

#### Noun

bȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ба̑р, relational adjective bȃrskī)
* public house, bar

##### Declension
#### Further reading

* “bar”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bâːr/

#### Noun

bȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ба̑р)
* bar (unit of pressure)

##### Declension
#### Further reading

* “bar”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

### Etymology 3

Clipping of bàrem.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bâr/

#### Adverb

bȁr (Cyrillic spelling ба̏р)
* at least

#### Further reading

* “bar”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

### Etymology 4

From Proto-Slavic *bъrъ.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bâːr/

#### Noun

bȃr m (Cyrillic spelling ба̑р) (regional)
* foxtail millet (Setaria italica)
    Synonym: mȕhār
* pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum)
    Synonyms: kòšćan, bìsērno prȍso

##### Declension
#### Further reading

* “bar”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Slovene
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bar.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /báːr/.

#### Noun

bȃr m inan
* public house, bar

##### Inflection
### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /báːr/

#### Noun

bȃr m inan
* bar (unit of pressure)

##### Inflection
### Etymology 3

Considering its Ottoman Turkish origin and smaller frequency, from Serbo-Croatian bȁr.

#### Alternative forms

* barem, baren

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /báːr/

#### Adverb

bȃr
* at least
    Synonym: vsaj
* even though
    Synonym: čeprav
* otherwise, for else
    Synonym: sicer

### Etymology 4

From Proto-Slavic *bъrъ.

#### Alternative forms

* ber, bȋr

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /báːr/

#### Noun

bȃr m inan
* foxtail millet (Setaria italica)
    Synonym: laški muhvič
* pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum)
    Synonym: biserno proso

##### Inflection
### Further reading

* “bar”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
* “bar”, in Termania, Amebis
* See also the general references

## Somali
### Verb

bar
* Alternative spelling of baro

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbaɾ/ [ˈbaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: bar

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English bar. Doublet of barra.

#### Noun

bar m (plural bares)
* bar, coffee shop, café, pub (an establishment where refreshments and alcohol drinks are served)

##### Derived terms

* bar de alterne
* bar de ambiente
* bar de copas
* bar gay

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

bar m (plural bares)
* bar (unit of pressure)

### Further reading

* “bar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Sumerian
### Romanization

bar
* Romanization of 𒁇

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɑːr/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑːr

### Etymology 1

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

#### Adjective

bar (comparative barare, superlative barast)
* bare, uncovered; not covered by e.g. clothes (about people), fur (about certain animals) or a snow cover (about the ground)

##### Declension

$^1$ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. $^2$ Dated or archaic. $^3$ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

##### Derived terms

* barmark

### Etymology 2

See bära.

#### Verb

bar
* past indicative of bära

### Etymology 3

Unadapted borrowing from English bar.

#### Noun

bar c
* a bar (place where mainly alcoholic drinks are served)
    barer och nattklubbarbars and nightclubs
* a bar (bar counter)
    Synonym: bardisk (“bar counter”)
    Vi hängde mest vid barenWe mostly hung out by the bar

##### Usage notes

Bar has more modern, sleek connotations, while pub suggests a British-style pub, with cozy connotations, etc. See also krog.

##### Descendants

* → Finnish: baari

##### See also

* krog
* nattklubb
* pub

### Etymology 4

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

#### Noun

bar c
* A bar; a unit of pressure

### References

* bar in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* bar in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* bar in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* bar in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

### Anagrams

* bra

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from English bar.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈbaɾ/ [ˈbaɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: bar

### Noun

bar (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜇ᜔)
* bar (business selling alcoholic drinks)
    Synonyms: inuman, barikan, taberna
* (law) bar exam
* iron or steel bar
    Synonym: baras

#### Derived terms

* magbar

### Anagrams

* bra, Abr.

## Traveller Norwegian
### Noun

bar
* a stone

### See also

* haling

## Turkish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɑɾ/

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Armenian պար (par, “dance”).

#### Noun

bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)
* (dialectal) dance, round dance

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bar.

#### Noun

bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)
* bar, pub

### Etymology 3

From Ottoman Turkish بار (bar), from Armenian փառ (pʻaṙ).

#### Noun

bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)
* (dialectal) dirt, dust

### Etymology 4

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

#### Noun

bar (definite accusative barı, plural barlar)
* (unit of pressure) bar

##### Declension
### References

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “պար”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
* “bar”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982

## Turkmen
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *bār.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɑːɾ/

### Adjective

bar
* Existential copula: there is, there are, there exists, there exist

## Wakhi
### Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *dwā́ram, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰwā́ram, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer-. Related to Persian در (dar).

### Noun

bar
* door

## Welsh
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle English bar.

### Pronunciation

IPA: /bar/

### Noun

bar m (plural bariau or barrau or bars)
* bar, post
    Synonyms: ffon, polyn, postyn, trosol
* bar, block
    Synonyms: bloc, darn
* bar, counter
    Synonym: cownter
** bar (drinking establishment)
* (music) bar
* (geography) bar, sandbar, bank
    Synonyms: banc, glan
* (law, as y bar) the bar

#### Derived terms

* bar o siocled (“chocolate bar”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “bar”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh-English Dictionary, Gwerin
* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “bar”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

## Zazaki
### Etymology

Related to Persian بار (bâr).

### Noun

bar
* load, burden