bara

Short for barazoku, from Japanese 薔薇族 (barazoku, literally “rose tribe”), the name of Japan's first modern gay men's magazine, named after a post-World War II term for gay men.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːɹə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈbæɹə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɹə, -æɹə

bara (uncountable)

1. (Internet slang) A genre of homoerotic media, usually manga and often pornographic, made by gay men for gay men in Japan.
2. (Internet slang) Gay male media of a similar style and aesthetic, regardless of the creator's gender or ethnicity.
3. (Internet slang) Any homoerotic media or pornography that accentuates macho masculinity; gay porn.

• The term barazoku was once relatively more common in the Japanese gay community (the magazine Barazoku starting publication in 1971), but has long since gone out of fashion in Japan, having been replaced by terms like ガチムチ (gachimuchi).
• The term bara often contrasts with yaoi, which is gay male media usually made by heterosexual women to appeal to other heterosexual women. Whereas bara typically emphasizes masculine homoeroticism and frank explicit sexual situations, yaoi typically emphasizes the androgynous bishonen aesthetic and depicts emotional romantic relationships.

• Abar, Abra, Arab, Baar, abra, arba

From Proto-Celtic *bargos, *barginā (“cake, bread”) (compare Welsh bara, Old Cornish bara, Old Irish bairgen f (“bread, loaf; food, plain diet”)).

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.ʁa/

bara m (plural baraioù)

1. bread

• Hyphenation: ba‧ra

bara

1. a yard; a unit of length equal to 3 feet

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛaːɹa/
• Rhymes: -ɛaːɹa
• Homophones: barað, bæra

bara (third person singular past indicative baraði, third person plural past indicative baraðu, supine barað)

1. (reflexive) constrain (oneself)

bara

1. just, simply
2. I wish
3. if only

• (I wish): gævi

• IPA^(key): /ba.ʁa/

bara m (uncountable)

1. (Ivory Coast slang) work, labour
   • 2019 April 1, La rappeuse NASH, “La rappeuse NASH nommée ambassadrice nationale UNICEF”, in A UNICEF press release, spread by Ivorian.net, Fratmat, Allafrica, Afrique Femme, Abidjan TV, Ivoire Soir, Africa Hot News:

     Ma science pour les gopios, c’est de : couman fah-fah avec eux, prendre dra de leur melanhement, de leur miria, djaouli ceux qui veulent fraya au souklou, ou avoir un bara djidji par rapport à un graya général demso, decrou un bon soutrali par rapport à les bognan et leur gué un nouveau douahou et mettre mon fangan au-devant pour leurs wés.

     My science for the children is: to do some plain talk with them, discover their troubles, their concerns, to make provisions for those who want to go to school, or to have some real work in relation to a general sustenance, to render some good help in relation to their problems and give them a new chance, and to apply my power for their dreams.

bara

1. (Ivory Coast slang) to work, to labour

barā̀ m (feminine baranyā̀, plural barōrī, possessed form baràn)

1. servant
2. A young person who out of respect volunteers to work for someone from time to time.

bar̃ā̀ f (plural bàr̃ā̀ce-bàr̃ā̀ce, possessed form bar̃àr̃)

1. begging for alms

bā̀r̃ā f (possessed form bā̀r̃ar̃)

1. one's focus (e.g., in aiming at or attempting to catch something)

bā̀ra f (possessed form bā̀rar̃)

1. last year

bā̀ra

1. last year

Borrowed from Spanish vara/barra.

bára

1. crowbar
2. yardstick

bara

1. only, just, if only

   Ég á bara 200 krónur.

   I only have 200 krónur.

   Bara að hann hringi í mig...

   If only he'd call me...

2. (emphatic, postpositive) only, just

   Þegiðu bara!

   Just shut up!

   Gerðu þetta bara og þegiðu!

   Just do it and shut up.

• (emphatic: just): barasta

• af því bara (aþþí bara, af því barasta; just because)

bara

1. lung

bara (plural bara-bara, first-person possessive baraku, second-person possessive baramu, third-person possessive baranya)

1. ember

• IPA^(key): /ˈbˠaɾˠə/

From Old Irish bara (“flow; intention, design”).

bara f (genitive singular bara, nominative plural baraí)

1. inclination, intention

From Middle Irish bara (“barrow”), borrowed from Old Norse barar.

bara m (genitive singular bara, nominative plural baraí)

1. barrow, cart

• bara láimhe (“hand-barrow”)
• bara rotha (“wheel-barrow”)

• "bara" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “bara” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “bara” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• “1 bara” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “2 bara” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.ra/
• Stress: bàra
• Hyphenation: ba‧ra

Borrowed from Lombardic bāra (“bier, litter”), from Proto-Germanic *beraną (“to carry”). Compare German Bahre (“bier, stretcher”).

bara f (plural bare)

1. bier (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XI, lines 112–117, page 208–209:

     a’ frati suoi, sì com’a giuste rede, ¶ raccomandò la donna sua più cara, ¶ e comandò che l’amassero a fede; ¶ e del suo grembo l’anima preclara ¶ mover si volle, tornando al suo regno, ¶ e al suo corpo non volle altra bara.

     Unto his friars, as to the rightful heirs, his most dear Lady [Poverty] did he [St. Francis] recommend, and bade that they should love her faithfully; and from her bosom the illustrious soul wished to depart, returning to its realm, and for its body wished no other bier.

2. coffin (box in which a person is buried)

   Il cadavere fu deposto nella bara.

   The body was placed in the coffin.

3. (obsolete) litter, stretcher

   Synonyms: barella, lettiga

4. (religion) A carriage used to transport a saint's relics.
5. An animal-drawn carriage typical of Tuscany and Liguria.

• barella

See the etymology of the main entry.

bara

1. inflection of barare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• bara in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• baro, baara (basilectal Jamaican Creole)

bara

1. borrow

bara

1. Rōmaji transcription of ばら
2. Rōmaji transcription of バラ

bara

1. hundred million (10⁸)

• IPA^(key): /βàɾàꜜ/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 1 with a disyllabic stem, together with ndaka, and so on.

• (Kiambu)

• (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including cindano, huko, iburi, igego, igoti, ini (pl. mani), inooro, irigũ, irũa, iturubarĩ (pl. maturubarĩ), kĩbaata, kĩmũrĩ, kũgũrũ, mũciĩ, mũgeni, mũgũrũki, mũmbirarũ, mũndũ, mũri, mũthuuri, mwaki (“fire”), mwario (“way of speaking”), mbogoro, nda, ndaka, ndigiri, ngo, njagathi, njogu, nyondo (“breast(s)”), and so on.[1]

bara class 9/10 (plural bara)

1. road

   Synonyms: barabara, njĩra

• “barabara” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 24. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

bara

1. nearby, at, close

• Rina, A. Dj.; Kabba, John Lado B. (2011), “bara”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 8

bara m

1. genitive singular form of bars

From Proto-Germanic *bērō, whence also Old English bēr.

bāra f

1. bier

• Middle High German: bāre
  • German: Bahre
• → Italian: bara

From Old Norse bera, bara (East Old Norse), from Proto-Germanic *bazōną.

bara

1. to bare, make bare

Borrowed from French barrer (“to bar”).

• IPA^(key): /baˈra/

a bará (third-person singular present barează, past participle barat) 1st conj.

1. to bar; to block

From Proto-Slavic *bara.

• IPA^(key): /bâra/
• Hyphenation: ba‧ra

bȁra f (Cyrillic spelling ба̏ра)

1. puddle

• “bara” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Arabic بَرّ‎ (barr, “mainland”).

bara (n class, plural bara)

1. mainland
2. continent

• ba (colloquial)

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɑːˌra]

• audio

  (file)

bara

1. absolute singular definite and plural form of bar.

bara

1. just, only

   Jag ska bara läsa den här sidan också.

   I'll just read this page too.

   Vi har bara en bil.

   We have only one car.

• endast
• enbart
• blott

• arab

bara

1. definite dative singular of bar

From Proto-Celtic *bargos, *barginā (“cake, bread”) (compare Breton bara, Old Cornish bara, Old Irish bairgen f (“bread, loaf; food, plain diet”)).

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈbara/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈbaːra/, /ˈbara/

bara m (plural bara)

1. bread; loaf, slice (of bread), loaves
2. (figuratively) food, meal, sustenance, means of subsistence, livelihood

• Angharad Fychan and Ann Parry Owen, editors (2014), “bara”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies