barn

• enPR: bärn, IPA^(key): /bɑɹn/
  • (General Australian, Boston) IPA^(key): [baːn]
  • (NYC) IPA^(key): [bɒən]
  • (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): [bɐːn]
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [bɑːn]
  • (General American) IPA^(key): [bɑɹn]
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)n

From Middle English bern, from Old English bearn, bern, contracted forms of Old English berern, bereærn (“barn, granary”), compound of bere (“barley”) and ærn, ræn (“dwelling, barn”), from Proto-Germanic *razną (compare Old Norse rann), from pre-Germanic *h₁rh̥₁-s-nó-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁erh₁- (“to rest”). More at rest and barley.

barn (plural barns)

1. (agriculture) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 11, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.

2. (nuclear physics) A unit of surface area equal to 10^-28 square metres.
3. (informal, basketball, ice hockey) An arena.

   Maple Leaf Gardens was a grand old barn.

barn (third-person singular simple present barns, present participle barning, simple past and past participle barned)

1. (transitive) To lay up in a barn.
   • Shakespeare

     Men […] often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)

From Middle English barn, bern, from Old English bearn (“child, son, offspring, prodigy”) and Old Norse barn (“child”). More at bairn.

barn (plural barns)

1. (dialectal, parts of Northern England) A child.

• (child): bairn

• Bran, NRAB, bran

Cognate with Cornish barna.

barn

1. (transitive) to judge

• barner
• barnadenn
• barnadur
• barnedigezh
• barner a beoc'h
• skiant-varn
• dezvarn

From Old Danish barn, from Old Norse barn (“child”), from Proto-Germanic *barną. Compare English bairn.

• IPA^(key): /barn/, [b̥ɑːˀn]

barn n (singular definite barnet, plural indefinite børn)

1. child (immature human)

   Dette er ikke et passende sted for børn.

   This is not a fitting place for children.

2. child (human offspring)

   Mine børn er alle flyttet hjemmefra.

   My children have all moved out.

In compounds: barn-, barne-, barns- or børne-.

• “barn” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną, the passive participle of *beraną; cognate with Latvian bērns (“child”), Lithuanian bérnas (“servant”); from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpatn]
• Rhymes: -atn

barn n (genitive singular barns, plural børn)

1. child

barn m (plural barns)

1. (physics) barn (unit)

barn

1. Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌽

From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpartn], IPA^(key): [ˈpatn] (colloquial), IPA^(key): [ˈparn] (Southeast dialect)
• Rhymes: -artn
• Rhymes: -atn

barn n (genitive singular barns, nominative plural börn)

1. child

• smábarn
• brjóstbarn
• undrabarn
• ungabarn
• ungbarn
• barnalegur
• barnalæknir
• brennt barn forðast eldinn
• barnshafandi

Borrowed from English barn.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbarn/

barn m (invariable)

1. (nuclear physics) barn (unit of surface area)

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

From Old English bearn, from Proto-Germanic *barną.

• bern, bearn, bærn, barne, berne, baren

• IPA^(key): /barn/, /baːrn/, /bɛrn/

barn (plural barnes or barnen)

1. A member of one's immediate offspring or progeny.
2. A child, youth, or baby
3. A person; a member of humanity
4. A younger soldier or fighter

• barneschen
• barnhede
• barnles
• barntem

• Scots: bairn
  • → English: bairn
• English: barn (obsolete, dialectal)

• “bā̆rn (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.

From Old English bereærn.

barn

1. Alternative form of bern (“barn”)

From Old Norse barn.

• IPA^(key): /bɑːɳ/

barn n (definite singular barnet, indefinite plural barn, definite plural barna or barnene)

1. a child

• “barn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse barn.

• IPA^(key): /bɑːrn/

barn n (definite singular barnet, indefinite plural barn or born, definite plural barna or borna)

1. a child

• “barn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną.

barn n (genitive barns, plural børn)

1. child

• Danish: barn

From Proto-Germanic *barną, the passive participle of *beraną; cognate with Latvian bērns (“child”), Lithuanian bérnas (“servant”); from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-.

barn n (genitive barns, plural bǫrn)

1. child

• Icelandic: barn
• Faroese: barn
• Norwegian: barn
• Old Swedish: barn
  • Swedish: barn
• Old Danish: barn
  • Danish: barn
• Gutnish: ban

• barn in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Proto-Germanic *barną, whence also Old English bearn, Old High German barn, Swedish barn.

barn n

1. child

From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną.

barn n

1. child

• Swedish: barn

barn m inan

1. barn (unit)

• barn in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Old Swedish barn (“child”), from Old Norse barn (“child”), from Proto-Germanic *barną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-. Cognate with Danish barn, Icelandic barn, Old Saxon barn, Old High German barn, Latvian bērns (“child”), Lithuanian bérnas (“worker”) and bernẽlis (“lad”), a kind of participle to bära (“to bear, to carry, as in childbirth”).

• IPA^(key): /bɑːrn/, [bɑːɳ]

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barn n

1. a child (a young person)
2. (someone's) child, offspring (a son or daughter)
3. a descendant (e.g. children of Abraham)
4. a follower (e.g. God's children)
5. (someone's) creation, invention
6. (uncountable) barn; a unit of area in nuclear physics

• unge

• pojke
• flicka

• barn in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
• barn in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.

• IPA^(key): /barn/

barn f (plural barnau)

1. opinion, view
2. judgement, sentence

• barnu (“to adjudge; to pass sentence”)