# bare
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: bâr
** (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /bɛə/, /bɛː/
** (General American) IPA: /bɛɚ/
*** Audio (General American):(file)
** (General Australian) IPA: /beː/, [beː~bɛː]
** (India) IPA: /ˈbiːə(r)/, /bɛː(r)/
** (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA: /beə/
** (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA: /biə/
** (Scotland) IPA: /beɹ/
** (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA: /bɜː(ɹ)/
** Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
** Homophones: bear, beer (cheer–chair merger), burr (fair–fur merger)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English bare, bar, from Old English bær (“bare, naked, open”), from Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz (“bare, naked”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰosós, from *bʰos- (“bare, barefoot”).
Cognate with Scots bare, bair (“bare”), Saterland Frisian bar (“bare”), West Frisian baar (“bare”), Dutch bar (“bare”), German bar (“bare”), Swedish bar (“bare”), Icelandic ber (“bare”), Lithuanian basas (“barefoot, bare”), Polish bosy (“barefoot”).

#### Adjective

bare (comparative barer, superlative barest)
* Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
    Synonyms: mere, minimal
    Antonyms: ample, plentiful, sufficient
    a bare majority
** 1711 May 30 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “SATURDAY, May 19, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 69; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:Nature indeed furnishes us with the bare necessaries of life, but traffic gives us a great variety of what is usefulThe spelling has been modernized.
* Naked, uncovered.
    Synonyms: exposed, naked, nude, uncovered, undressed
    Antonyms: covered, covered up, dressed, unexposed
** 1961, Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach, Knopf, page 46:"I refuse to show myself out of doors in my bare feet," the Centipede said. "I have to get my boots on again first."
* Having no supplies.
    Synonyms: empty, unfurnished, unstocked, unsupplied
    Antonyms: full, furnished, stocked, supply, supplied, well-stocked
    a room bare of furniture
    The cupboard was bare.
** 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, retrieved 31 October 2012:Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.
* Having no decoration.
    Synonyms: empty, plain, unadorned, undecorated; see also Thesaurus:unadorned
    Antonyms: adorned, decorated, ornate; see also Thesaurus:gaudy
    The walls of this room are bare — why not hang some paintings on them?
* Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
    Synonyms: despoiled, stripped, uncovered
    Antonym: covered
    The trees were left bare after the swarm of locusts devoured all the leaves.
* (MLE, MTE, Yorkshire, slang, not comparable) A lot or lots of.
    It's taking bare time.
** 2005 July 13, Ryan, quotee, “‘We like the easy money. We like the lifestyle’”, in The Guardian‎:The phone would answer, we'd go round the corner, pass something to someone, go back and we'd have bare dough, we'd have bare money in our pocket.
** 2016 December 3, Millie B (lyrics and music), “Soph Aspin Send”, performed by Millie B:You shagged bare lads, you're a little sket / Have you heard your bars? They're fucking pept
** 2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Nathan (Simon Manyonda):Oh, come on. Help a brother out. People see you coppin', might inspire them. Look, I know you ain't payin' bills right now. Man must have bare peas saved up.
* With head uncovered; bareheaded.
    Synonym: uncovered
** [1633], George Herbert, “The Church-porch”, in [Nicholas Ferrar], editor, The Temple. Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel; and are to be sold by Francis Green, […], →OCLC, page 14:When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. / God is more there, then thou: for thou art there / Onely by his permiſſion.
* Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
    Synonyms: apparent, displayed; see also Thesaurus:apparent
    Antonyms: concealed, obscured; see also Thesaurus:hidden
** 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 56, line 903:Bare in thy guilt how foul muſt thou appear?
* (figuratively) Mere; without embellishment.
    Synonyms: alone, simple, only, very
    bare essentials; bare necessities
** 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Chapter XII:Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word.
* Threadbare, very worn.
    Synonyms: shabby, worn-out
** c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:for it appears, by their bare liveries, that they live by your bare words.
* Not insured.
    Synonyms: noninsured, uninsured
** 1987 December 1, ABA Journal, page 86:Before the company was formed, the firm went bare for about three months in 1985, but it now has prior acts coverage for that time.
** 1994, David S. Haviland, The Architect's Handbook of Professional Practice, page 310:That a firm chooses to go bare has no effect on whether it gets sued or not.

##### Derived terms

* barearse
* bare-arse
* bareass
* bare-assed
* bareback
* bare-backed
* barebacked
* bare-bellied
* bare-bellied Joe
* bare board
* bareboat
* barebone
* bare-boned
* bare bones
* bare-bones
* bare-boobed
* bare-bottomed
* barebow
* bare-breasted
* bare-bum
* bare-butt
* barebutt
* barechested
* bare-chested
* bare-eared squirrel monkey
* bare-eye
* bare-eyed cockatoo
* barefaced
* barefast
* barefoot, barefooted
* bare-footed
* bare-footen
* barehand
* bare hand
* bare-handed
* barehanded
* bare-handedly
* bare-handedness
* bare-headed
* bareheaded
* bare infinitive
* bareish
* bare king
* bare knuckle
* bare-knuckle
* bare-knuckle boxing
* bare-knuckled
* bare knuckled
* bare-knuckle fight
* bare knuckling
* bare-knuckling
* bareland
* barelegged
* bare-legged owl
* bare license
* barely
* bare metal
* bare minimum
* bare minimum Monday
* bare navy
* barenecked
* bareness
* bare noun
* bare patch
* bare poles
* bare-root
* bareroot
* baresark
* bare-shouldered
* bare-skin
* bareskin
* bare-throated bellbird
* bare trust
* bareword
* barish
* in one's bare skin
* king bare
* lay bare
* lay bare one's soul
* pale-faced bare-eye
* the cupboard is bare
* threadbare
* unbare
* with one's bare hands

##### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

#### Adverb

bare
* (dialect) Barely.
** 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:The fiend had bare departed when Ailie came over the threshold to find the auld carline glunching over the fire.
** 2009, Allan Cole with Chris Bunch, The Wars of the Shannons:He finally came back to himself and asked why the furor. "Why," Lucy said, "because this is Christmas Eve. We have bare enough time to get ready for the ball, after dinner, as it is."
** 2011, Elizabeth Vaughan, Warprize:“I've bare enough for these two, much less fill your belly.”
* (MLE, slang) Very; significantly.
    That pissed me off bare.
    That's bare stupid.
* (slang) Without a condom.
** 2000, Northeast African Studies - Volume 7, page 119:While none of the participants had complete confidence in condoms, they continued to use them as a better alternative than “going in bare".
** 2002, The Society of Malawi Journal - Volumes 55-58, page 70:It would be fine to have these women bare, without condoms.
** 2010, M. L. Matthews, I Am Not the Father: Narratives of Men Falsely Accused of Paternity, →ISBN:I like to go bare. I don't like wearing condoms, actually I hate 'em.

##### Translations
#### Noun

bare (plural bares)
* (‘the bare’) The surface, the (bare) skin.
** 1599, John Marston, Antonio and Mellida:In sad good earnest, sir, you have toucht the very bare of naked truth [...]
** 2002, Darren Shan, Hunters of the dusk: 7:Vancha clasped the bare of my neck and squeezed amiably.
* Surface; body; substance.
** c. 1599 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], The History of Antonio and Mellida. The First Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Mathewe Lownes, and Thomas Fisher, […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page):You have touched the very bare of naked truth.
* (architecture) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.

### Etymology 2

From Middle English baren, from Old English barian, from Proto-Germanic *bazōną (“to bare, make bare”).

#### Verb

bare (third-person singular simple present bares, present participle baring, simple past and past participle bared)
* (transitive, sometimes figurative) To uncover; to reveal.
    She bared her teeth at him.
    The tabloid newspaper promised to bare all.

##### Usage notes

The verb should not be confused with the verb bear.

##### Synonyms

* (uncover): expose, lay bare, reveal, show, uncover; see also Thesaurus:reveal

##### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “uncover”): cover, cover up, hide

##### Derived terms

* bare all
* bare it all
* bare one's breast
* bare one's heart
* bare one's soul
* bare one's teeth
* unbare

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

Inflected forms.

#### Verb

bare
* (obsolete) simple past of bear
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Chronicles 15:15:And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon
** [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:And so I put thee on my shoulder and bare thee back, and here thou art in David's room, and shalt find board and bed with me as long as thou hast mind to

### References

* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “bare”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “bare”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* “bare adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

### Anagrams

* Aber, Bear, Brea, Reba, bear, brae, rabe

## Basque
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baɾe/ [ba.ɾe]
* Rhymes: -aɾe, -e
* Hyphenation: ba‧re

### Etymology 1
#### Adjective

bare (comparative bareago, superlative bareen, excessive bareegi)
* calm

##### Declension
### Etymology 2
#### Noun

bare anim
* slug

##### Declension
### Etymology 3
#### Noun

bare inan
* spleen

##### Declension
### References

* “bare”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005
* “bare”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
* “bare” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbarɛ]

### Noun

bare
* vocative singular of bar

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbaːrə/, [ˈb̥ɑːɑ]

### Etymology 1

From the adjective bar (“naked”).

#### Adverb

bare
* just
* simply
* only, merely

#### Conjunction

bare
* I wish, I hope, if only (introduces a wish)
** 1979, Tove Ditlevsen, Vi har kun hinanden: To som elsker hinanden, →ISBN:Bare vi var alene.I wish we were alone.
** 2014, Pernille Eybye, Blodets bånd #1: Blodsøstre, Tellerup A/S, →ISBN:„Bare jeg kunne blive hele natten," fortsatte han."If only I could stay all night", he continued.
** 2013, Lyngby-Taarbæk Bibliotekerne, Tanker om tid: 15 udvalgte noveller, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 43:Bare jeg kunne spole tiden tilbage.If only I could rewind time.
* if only (introduces a conditional subclause)

##### Synonyms

* gid, om, hvis bare, kun

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

bare
* inflection of bar:
** definite singular
** plural

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

bare
* (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of baren

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

bare
* inflection of bar:
** strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
** strong nominative/accusative plural
** weak nominative all-gender singular
** weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈba.re/
* Rhymes: -are
* Hyphenation: bà‧re

### Noun

bare f
* plural of bara

### Anagrams

* Arbe, Erba, ebra, erba, reba

## Lithuanian
### Noun

bare m
* locative/vocative singular of baras

## Manx
### Etymology

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

### Adjective

bare
* best

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

From Old Dutch *bāra, from Proto-West Germanic *bāru, from Proto-Germanic *bērō.

### Noun

bâre f
* bier, stretcher

#### Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

#### Descendants

* Dutch: baar
** Afrikaans: baar

### Further reading

* “bare (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
* Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “bare (IV)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page IV

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English bær, from Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz.

#### Alternative forms

* bar, baar, bayre, bere, beare

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baːr/

#### Adjective

bare
* unclothed; naked, nude

##### Descendants

* English: bare
* Scots: bare, bair
* Yola: baar, baare

##### References

* “bār, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

bare
* (Northern) Alternative form of bor

## Miriwung
### Verb

bare
* to stand

## Northern Kurdish
### Etymology

Compare Persian باره (bâre, “subject, issue”).

### Noun

bare m
* topic
* hashtag

#### Derived terms

* di bareya ... de

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Adjective

bare
* definite singular of bar
* plural of bar

### Adverb

bare
* only, merely, just
* but

### Conjunction

bare
* if; as long as

### See also

* berre (Nynorsk)

### References

* “bare” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* aber

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Adverb

bare
* (pre-2012) alternative form of berre

## Old English
### Adjective

bare
* inflection of bær:
** strong feminine accusative singular
** strong masculine/neuter instrumental singular
** strong masculine/feminine nominative/accusative plural
** weak feminine/neuter nominative singular
** weak neuter accusative singular

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

bare (Cyrillic spelling баре)
* vocative singular of bȃr

### Noun

bare (Cyrillic spelling баре)
* inflection of bȁra:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative plural

## Swedish
### Adjective

bare
* definite natural masculine singular of bar

### Anagrams

* aber