barr

From French barrir (“to trumpet; to make the sound of an elephant”), from Old French barrire, from Late Latin barriō, from Latin barrus (“elephant”).

barr (third-person singular simple present barrs, present participle barring, simple past and past participle barred)

1. (obsolete) To make the sound of an elephant.
   • 1737, Rabelais, François, Thomas Urquhart, transl.,(Please provide the book title or journal name):

     He gave us also the example of the Philosopher, who, when he thought most seriously to have withdrawn himself unto a solitary Privacy, far from the rufling Clutterments of the tumultuous and confused World, the better to improve his Theory, to contrive, comment, and ratiocinate, was, notwithstanding his uttermost Endeavours to free himself from all untowards Noises, surrounded and environ'd about so with the barking of Curs, howling of Wolves, neighing of Horses, bleating of Sheep, barring of Elephants, hissing of Serpents, braying of Asses, chirping of Grasshoppers, cooing of Turtles […]

From Old Norse barr.

• IPA^(key): /parː/
• Rhymes: -arː

barr n (genitive singular barrs, no plural)

1. pine needles

• bárr (obsolete)

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /bˠɑːɾˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /bˠaːɾˠ/

From Old Irish barr (“top, tip, end; crop, produce”), from Proto-Celtic *barros (compare Middle Welsh barr), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers-.

barr m (genitive singular bairr or barr, nominative plural barra)

1. tip, head, point
2. top; summit
3. upper part
4. surface
5. coating; cream, scum
6. (agriculture) crop, cut, yield
7. yield, result
8. addition, excess
9. superiority
10. extremity
11. (of wavelength) crest

Alternative declension

• cafarr (“helmet, headpiece; kerchief”)

barr (present analytic barrann, future analytic barrfaidh, verbal noun barradh, past participle barrtha)

1. (transitive) top; surpass
2. (transitive, of nail) clinch

From Old French barre, barrer. Compare English bar.

barr m (genitive singular bairr)

1. bar, hindrance

barr (present analytic barrann, future analytic barrfaidh, verbal noun barradh, past participle barrtha)

1. (transitive) bar, hinder

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “barr”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 barr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “barr” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “barr” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 56

• IPA^(key): /barr/

From Arabic بَرّ‎ (barr).

barr m

1. wilderness

Onomatopoeic.

barr (imperfect jborr)

1. to coo (make a coo sound)

From Proto-Celtic *barros (compare Irish barr), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers-.

• IPA^(key): /bar/

barr m (plural barriau)

1. top
2. summit, crest

• Welsh: bar

From Proto-Germanic *baraz.

barr n

1. acicular leaves, needles (of the fir or pine)
2. barley

• Icelandic: barr
• Faroese: barr
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bar
• Old Swedish: bar
  • Swedish: barr

• “barr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Entry "barr" on page 43 in: Geir T. Zoëga "A Concise Dictionary of Old Islandic", Oxford at the Claredon Press (1910).

• bar
• bař (Pan-Vlax)

Inherited from Sanskrit *वर्त (varta, “round stone”).[1][2]

barr m (nominative plural barra)

1. (International Standard) stone[2][3], rock[3]

From Old Norse barr.

barr n

1. needle; leaf of a coniferous tree
2. (dated, slang, uncountable) hair

• burr

barr c

1. (gymnastics) parallel bars

• barr in Svensk ordbok.