• IPA^(key):/ˈbɑː.ɹə/,/ˈbæ.ɹə/

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• Rhymes:-ɑːɹə,-æɹə

Short forbarazoku, fromJapanese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.

bara (uncountable)

1. (Japanesefiction) Agenre ofhomoeroticmedia, usuallymanga and oftenpornographic, made by gay men for gay men in Japan.
2. Gay male media of a similarstyle andaesthetic, regardless of the creator'sgender orethnicity.
3. Any homoerotic media orpornography that accentuatesmachomasculinity; gayporn.

• The termbarazoku was once relatively more common in the Japanese gay community (the magazineBarazoku starting publication in 1971), but has long since gone out offashion inJapan, having been replaced by terms likeガチムチ(gachimuchi).
• The termbara often contrasts withyaoi, which is gay male media usually made byheterosexual women to appeal to other heterosexual women. Whereas bara typicallyemphasizesmasculinehomoeroticism and frankexplicit sexual situations, yaoi typically emphasizes theandrogynousbishonen aesthetic and depicts emotionalromanticrelationships.

bara (uncountable)

1. (Internetslang) Of or related tobara media.

   bara men

Clipping ofcapybara.

bara (pluralbaras)

2. (informal) Acapybara.

• Raab,arab,ABAR,Abra,abra,abar,Abar,arba,Arab,Baar,raab

• IPA^(key):/baˈra/ [bʌˈɾʌ]
• Hyphenation:ba‧ra

bará f 

1. sake

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

• IPA^(key):/ˈbara/ [ˈbʌɾʌ]
• Hyphenation:ba‧ra

bára

1. predicative ofbár

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985)An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London,→ISBN, page68
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015)L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

FromProto-Celtic*bargos,*barginā(“cake, bread”) (compareWelshbara,Cornishbara,Old Irishbairgen f(“bread, loaf; food, plain diet”)), fromProto-Indo-European*bʰers-(“spike, prickle”) (Old Norsebarr(“corn, grain, barley”),Latinfar(“spelt”),Serbo-Croatianбра̏шно/brȁšno).^[1]

• IPA^(key):/ˈbɑː.ra/

bara m (pluralbaraioù)

1. bread

g=m

• Hyphenation:ba‧ra

bara

1. ayard; aunit oflengthequal to 3feet

FromCaribbean Hindustanibára, possibly fromHindiबड़ा(baṛā).(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key):/ˈbaː.raː/

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• Hyphenation:ba‧ra

bara m (pluralbara's)

1. (originallySuriname)vada(asavourydoughnut made ofmung beanflour)
   • 2021 July 4, “Gezellige sfeer bij vaccinatie in PL-centrum [Congenial atmosphere at vaccination drive at PL party headquarters]”, inStarNieuws‎^[2], retrieved7 December 2022:

     Uit enkele speakers dendert soca en zouk muziek^[sic]. In de lucht hangt de geur van versgebakkenbara's en kip.

     Soca and zouk music thumps from a couple of loudspeakers. The smell of freshly friedvadas and chicken wafts through the air.

•  Bara (snack) on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia^nl

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

bara (third person singular past indicativebaraði,third person plural past indicativebaraðu,supinebarað)

1. (reflexive)constrain (oneself)

bara

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

• (I wish):gævi

• IPA^(key):/ba.ʁa/

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bara m (uncountable)

1. (Ivory Coast slang)work,labour
   • 2019 April 1, La rappeuse NASH, “La rappeuse NASH nommée ambassadrice nationale UNICEF”, inA UNICEF press release, spread byIvorian.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 unbara 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 realwork 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) towork, tolabour

• IPA^(key):/bá.ɽàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa)IPA^(key):[bə́.ɽàː]

barā̀ m (femininebaranyā̀,pluralbarōrī,possessed formbaràn)

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

• IPA^(key):/bá.ràː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa)IPA^(key):[bə́.ràː]

bar̃ā̀ f (pluralbàr̃ā̀ce-bàr̃ā̀ce,possessed formbar̃àr̃)

1. Abeggar foralms

• IPA^(key):/bàː.ráː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa)IPA^(key):[bàː.ráː]

bā̀r̃ā f (possessed formbā̀r̃ar̃)

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

• IPA^(key):/bàː.ɽá/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa)IPA^(key):[bàː.ɽə́]

bā̀ra f (possessed formbā̀rar̃)

1. last year

bā̀ra

1. last year

Borrowed fromSpanishvara/barra.

bára

1. crowbar
2. yardstick

FromProto-Austronesian*baʀaq.

bara

1. (anatomy)lung

Borrowed fromDanishbare(“barely, only”). First attested in the 18th c..^[1] CompareSwedishbara.

bara

1. only,just,if only

   Ég ábara 200 krónur.

   Ionly have 200 krónur.

   Bara að hann hringi í mig...

   Ifonly he'd call me...

2. (emphatic,postpositive)only,just

   Synonym:barasta

   Þegiðubara!

   Just shut up!

   Gerðu þettabara og þegiðu!

   Just do it and shut up.

• af því bara,aþþí bara,af því barasta(“just because”)

FromProto-Austronesian*baʀaq.

bara

1. lung

FromMalaybara.

bara (pluralbara-bara)

1. ember

bara

1. if,when

• Mous, Maarten, Qorro, Martha, Kießling, Roland (2002)Iraqw-English Dictionary (Kuschitische Sprachstudien), volume18, Köln, Germany: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag,→ISBN, page11

• IPA^(key):/ˈbˠaɾˠə/

FromOld Irishbara(“flow; intention, design”). Probably related toMiddle Irishbaramail(“opinion, expectation”).

bara f (genitive singularbara,nominative pluralbaraí)

1. inclination,intention

FromMiddle Irishbara(“barrow”), borrowed fromOld Norsebarar.

bara m (genitive singularbara,nominative pluralbaraí)

1. barrow,cart

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bara”, inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bara”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 bara”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bara”, inEnglish-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “bara”, inNew English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge,2013-2025

• IPA^(key):/ˈba.ra/
• Rhymes:-ara
• Hyphenation:bà‧ra

Borrowed fromLombardicbāra(“bier, litter”), fromProto-West Germanic*beran, fromProto-Germanic*beraną(“to carry”). CompareGermanBahre(“bier, stretcher”).

bara f (pluralbare)

1. bier(litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)
   • 1316–c. 1321,Dante Alighieri, “Canto XI”, inParadiso [Heaven]‎^[3], lines115–117; republished asGiorgio Petrocchi, editor,La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[4], 2^nd revised edition, Florence:publ.Le Lettere,1994:

     e del suo grembo l’anima preclara
     mover si volle, tornando al suo regno,
     e al suo corpo non volle altrabara.

     And from her bosom the illustrious soul wished to depart, returning to its realm, and for its body wished no otherbier.

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

   Synonym:(regional)tabuto

   Il cadavere fu deposto nellabara.

   The body was placed in thecoffin.

   moltebareinattesadisepoltura

   a number ofcoffins awaiting burial

3. (obsolete)litter,stretcher

   Synonyms:barella,lettiga

4. (religion) acarriage used to transport asaint'srelics
5. an animal-drawn carriage typical of Tuscany and Liguria

• barella

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

bara

1. inflection ofbarare:
   1. third-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. second-personsingularimperative

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

• raba

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

bara

1. Alternative form ofborrow
   • 1995,English World-wide, volumes16-17, Julius Groos Verlag, page214:

     “So, mii en ha fi fain mi uona wie fi se ina Jamiekan aal kain a sinting we piipl a taak bout wen dem a stodi langgwij . Mek mi shuo unu wa ... Mibara di Rasta wod 'grounieshan' we dem yuuz fi seshan we dem miit an riizn . Mi tek i an yuuz i fi [...]”

     Well, I had to find my own way to express all sorts of things in Jamaican Creole which people talk about when they study languages. Let me show you what [...] I'mborrowing the Rasta word "Grounation" which they use for sessions where they get together and discuss important matters. I took it and used it to [...]

bara

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

bara

1. Romanization ofꦧꦫ

• barasıça

Borrowed fromPersianبرا(barâ).

• (Xarrâbî)IPA^(key):[baɾa]

bara

1. because of,for

   Synonyms:bərâyı,sârı

2. in regard to,in respect of

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1980)Wörterbuch des Chaladsch (Dialekt von Charrab) [Khalaj dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó

• IPA^(key):/βàɾà(ꜜ)/

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

• (Kiambu)

• (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group includingcindano,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 class9/10 (pluralbara)

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”, inKamus 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. genitivesingular ofbars

FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*baʀah, fromProto-Austronesian*baʀah.

• (Johor-Selangor)IPA^(key):/barə/
• (Riau-Lingga)IPA^(key):/bara/
• Rhymes:-arə,-rə,-ə
• Rhymes:-a

bara (Jawi spellingبارا,pluralbara-bara)

1. ember

• Indonesian:bara

• "bara" inKamus Dewan, Fourth Edition,Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka,→ISBN, 2005.
• “bara” inPusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur:Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

FromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*bajaq, compareOld Javanesewarah.

bara

1. towarn

bara

1. crowbar

• IPA^(key):/ˈbɑ.rɑ/

bara

1. inflection ofbær:
   1. strongnominative/accusativefeminineplural
   2. weaknominativemasculinesingular

FromProto-West Germanic*bāru, fromProto-Germanic*bērō, whence alsoOld Englishbēr.

bāra f

1. bier

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

FromOld Norsebera,bara (East Old Norse), fromProto-Germanic*bazōną.

bara

1. tobare,makebare

Borrowed fromFrenchbarrer(“to bar”).

• IPA^(key):/baˈra/

a bara (third-person singular presentbarează,past participlebarat) 1st conjugation

1. tobar, toblock

   Synonym:bloca

2. tostrike through

FromProto-Bantu*-bàda.

-bara (infinitivekubara,perfective-baze)

1. tocount,calculate

Inherited fromProto-Slavic*bara.

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

bȁra f (Cyrillic spellingба̏ра,relational adjectivebȁrskī)

1. puddle
2. marsh,swamp

• “bara”, inHrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian),2006–2025

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

bara (Cyrillic spellingбара)

1. genitivesingular ofbȃr

FromPortuguesebala.

bará class5 (pluralmapará class6)

1. bullet

Borrowed fromArabicبَرّ(barr,“mainland”).

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bara classV or IX (pluralmabara classVIorbara classX)

1. mainland
2. continent

   Synonym:kontinenti

FromOld Swedishbara, fromOld Norse*bara(“barely, only”), from*barr, fromProto-Germanic*bazaz(“bare”). CompareIcelandicbara.

• (Sweden)IPA^(key):/²bɑːra/

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  • (colloquial, unstressed)IPA^(key):/ba/
• (Finland)IPA^(key):/bɑrɑ/
• Rhymes:-²ɑːra

bara

1. inflection ofbar:
   1. definitesingular
   2. plural

bara (notcomparable)

1. just,only

   Synonyms:blott,enbart,endast,enkom,uteslutande

   Jag skabara läsa den här sidan också.

   I'll just read this page too.

   Vi harbara en bil.

   We have only one car.

• ba(colloquial)

• bara inSvenska Akademiens ordböcker
• Lövestam, Sara (2023) “Bara är inte alltid så bara”, inSpråktidningen‎^[5] (in Swedish), number 4, Vetenskapsmedia,→ISSN, retrieved30 August 2024

• arab,arab.

FromSpanishbarrar(“to mud”) orSpanishvarar(“to strand”).

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key):/baˈɾa/[bɐˈɾa]
• Rhymes:-a
• Syllabification:ba‧ra

bará (Baybayin spellingᜊᜇ)

1. clog;blockage;stoppage;obstruction

   Synonyms:pasak,sumpal,siksik

• barado

Borrowed fromSpanishvara.

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key):/ˈbaɾa/[ˈbaː.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes:-aɾa
• Syllabification:ba‧ra

bara (Baybayin spellingᜊᜇ)

1. unit oflength measuring about 33inches
2. measuringstick ortape measure of such alength

• sandipa
• yarda

Borrowed fromSpanishbarra.

• (Standard Tagalog)IPA^(key):/ˈbaɾa/[ˈbaː.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes:-aɾa
• Syllabification:ba‧ra

bara (Baybayin spellingᜊᜇ)

1. shaft;lever;beam(of a balance)

   Synonyms:pingga,braso

• Abra,abra

• IPA^(key):[ˈba.ɾa]

bara

1. carbuncle

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001)A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

bara

1. definitedativesingular ofbar

• (North Wales)IPA^(key):/ˈbara/
• (South Wales)IPA^(key):/ˈba(ː)ra/
• Rhymes:-ara

FromProto-Celtic*bargos,*barginā(“cake, bread”) (compareBretonbara,Cornishbara,Old Irishbairgen f(“bread, loaf; food, plain diet”)), fromProto-Indo-European*bʰers-(“spike, prickle”) (Old Norsebarr(“corn, grain, barley”),Latinfar(“spelt”),Serbo-Croatianбра̏шно/brȁšno).

bara m (pluralbara)

1. bread
2. (figuratively)food,meal,sustenance
3. (figuratively) means ofsubsistence,livelihood

• bara a chaws(“bread and cheese”)
• bara a dŵr(“bread and water”)
• bara brith
• bara cras,bara crasu
• bara fflat
• bara soda

• torth(“loaf”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “bara”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

bara

1. Soft mutation ofpara.

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “bara”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*barag(en)o/ā”, inEtymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden:Brill,→ISBN,page56