baar

• IPA^(key): [bɑːɾ]

From Dutch baren, from Middle Dutch baren, beren, from Old Dutch beran, baran, from Proto-Germanic *beraną. Cognate with German gebären, English to bear.

baar (present baar, present participle barende, past participle gebaar)

1. to give birth to; to bear

• The passive is formed with the irregular past participle gebore. Compare:

  Die vrou het gisteraand ’n kind gebaar. ― The woman bore a child last night.

  Die kind is gisteraand gebore. ― The child was born last night.

From Dutch baar, from Middle Dutch bâre, from Old Dutch *bāra, from Proto-Germanic *bērō, derived from etymology 1. Cognate with German Bahre, English bier.

baar (plural bare)

1. stretcher; litter; bier.

From Dutch baar, from Middle Dutch bâre. Possibly identical with etymology 2.

baar (plural bare)

1. big wave; breaker.

• brander

From Dutch baar, from Middle Dutch bare, from Old French barre. Cognate with German Barren, English bar.

baar (plural bare)

1. bar (of metal)

From Malay baru (“new”), in part directly, in part through the Dutch nominalisation baar (“newcomer”).

baar (attributive bare, comparative baarder, superlative baarste)

1. inexperienced

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

From Middle High German wār, from Old High German wār, from Proto-Germanic *wēraz (“true”). Cognate with German wahr, Dutch waar, German Low German wahr, West Frisian wier.

baar

1. (Sette Comuni) true

   De khimmest, is baar?

   You're coming, right?

   (literally, “You come, is true?”)

• baarot

• “baar” 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

From Proto-Germanic *barną (“child”); compare Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌽 (barn). The form baar may be a misprint for barn. Alternatively, -rn may have been simplified to -r, as it was in some dialects of High German; compare Luxembourgish Kär, Dar.

baar

1. child or boy
   • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:

     Baar. Puer.

From Persian بهار‎ (bahâr).

baar

1. spring

• IPA^(key): /baːr/

• baar

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• Hyphenation: baar
• Rhymes: -aːr

From Middle Dutch bâre. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

baar f (plural baren, diminutive baartje n)

1. A bier, a stretcher, a litter; a device used to carry someone or something, especially wounded or dead people.

   Synonym: draagbaar

2. A bed on which a dead person is displayed before he is buried.
   • 1922, Albert Verwey, De weg van het licht, De Gerichte Wil

     Wanneer ik stierf en zij die mij beminden / Rondom mijn baar staan en de een d’andre vraagt:

     When I died and those that loved me / stand around my dead bed and one asks the other:

   Synonyms: lijkbaar, lijkbed

• baarkleed
• draagbaar
• lijkbaar
• rosbaar

From Middle Dutch bare, from Old French barre.

baar f (plural baren, diminutive baartje n)

1. A bar, an ingot (of gold or another metal).
2. (obsolete) A bar, a beam.

   Synonyms: boom, staaf

• goudbaar

baar f (plural baren, diminutive baartje n)

1. (poetic, archaic, mostly used in the plural) A wave.
   • 1716, H.K. Poot, Mengeldichten, Die spade komt ook.

     Ulisses zworf weleer op wilde woeste baren,/ Minerves wreeden wrok en wrange wraek ten doel,

     Ulisses roamed on wild violent waves, towards Minerva’s cruel anger and bitter revenge

   Synonym: golf

Related to bar (“bare”).

baar (not comparable)

1. Said of money; cash.
   • Ik heb geen baar geld bij me.

     I have no cash on me.

Borrowed from Malay baru.

baar m (plural baren, diminutive baartje n)

1. (historical, nautical or relating to Indonesia, Netherlands) greenhorn, newbie
   • 1930 August 3, Si Omong, "Baren en... baren.", Algemeen Handelsblad, ochtendblad, page 12.

     Een leergierige baar wil gedurende het eerste etmaal van zijn verblijf op Java alles zien, alles weten, alles proeven.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

   • 1932, Uit de eerste marinejaren van Dirk Jan, Batteljee & Terpstra, pages 48 & 49.

     Bovendien werden de baren daardoor in korten tijd scheeps- en »marine«-wijs gemaakt, leerden de taal en de gebruiken van hun nieuwe wereld en praatten in weinig tijds mee als de besten over »snerfnimf« en »galjoenkapitein«, over »pluimgraaf« en »waschteef« zowel als over »Droge«, »Puist« en »Poen«, over »Clovis« en »Bakkertje« en over de »fielten« en »bokken« hunner dagelijksche omgeving.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

• orang-baar

See the etymology of the main entry.

baar

1. first-person singular present indicative of baren
2. imperative of baren

• IPA^(key): /b̥ˈɑːr/

baar (genitive baari, partitive baari)

1. bar, public house

baar m (genitive singular baar, plural baaryn)

1. crop, yield

Compare German bar, English bare.

baar

1. bare
2. naked