barm

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɑːm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɑɹm/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)m

From Middle English barm, barme, berm, bearm, from Old English bearm (“lap; bosom”), from Proto-Germanic *barmaz (“lap; bosom”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear”). Cognate with German Barm (“lap; bosom”).

barm (plural barms)

1. (obsolete except in dialects) Bosom, lap.

From Middle English berme, berm, from Old English beorma, from Proto-Germanic *bermô (“yeast; barm”); related to the dialectal Low German Bärm (“yeast”), from Middle Low German barm, berm. The cake sense is possibly a shortened form of barmcake, which would be made with yeast as described in that sense, or possibly it is from the Irish báirín breac, a type of bread.

barm (countable and uncountable, plural barms)

1. Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast.
   • 1590?, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II. scene i. line 25:

     ...and sometimes make the drink to bear no barm.

   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 620:

     In 1577 yeast, called barm, is bought at 9d. the pail.

   • 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, p. 65:

     And he chaffed the women as he served them their ha'porths of barm.

2. A small, flat, round individual loaf or roll of bread.

From Middle English bermen, from the noun (see above).

barm (third-person singular simple present barms, present participle barming, simple past and past participle barmed)

1. To spurge; foam

• AMBR, Bram

From Middle High German warm, from Old High German warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz (“warm”). Cognate with German warm, Dutch warm, English warm, Icelandic varmur.

barm (comparative bérmor, superlative dar bérmorste)

1. (Luserna, Sette Comuni) warm, hot

   Hòite machetz barm. ― It's hot today.

• “barm” 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
• “barm” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

From Old Norse baðmr (“bosom”).

barm c (singular definite barmen, plural indefinite barme)

1. bosom

From Old Norse barmr (“rim”).

barm c (singular definite barmen, plural indefinite barme)

1. (nautical, archaic) a corner of a sail

barm

1. Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌼

barm

1. indefinite accusative singular of barmur

From Old English bearm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz.

• berm, berme, barme, bearm

• IPA^(key): /barm/, /bɛrm/

barm (plural barmes)

1. The lap (The portion of one's legs that lies flat while sitting)
   • Late 14th century: And with that word this faucon gan to crie / And swowned eft in Canacees barm. — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
2. chest, torso, abdomen
   • Late 14th century: [...] kisse hire child er that it deyde / And in hir barm this litel child she leyde. — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Clerk's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
3. belly, stomach
4. (rare) A flat surface that serves as a resting-place.

• English: barm
• Scots: berme, berm, barm

• “barm (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-06.

From Old English beorma.

barm

1. Alternative form of berme (“yeast”)

From Old Norse baðmr.

• IPA^(key): /bɑrm/

barm m (definite singular barmen, indefinite plural barmar, definite plural barmane)

1. a bosom

• “barm” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse baðmr (“bosom”).

barm c

1. bosom