barn

Signification (Anglais)

1. A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
2. A unit of surface area equal to 10⁻²⁸ square metres.
3. (informal) An arena.
4. (slang) A warm and cozy place, especially a bedroom; a roost.

grange

séchoir à blé

storage place

storehouse for grain

horse barn

cattle-shed

stock barn

farm building

cattle shed

cowbarn

elevator

🛗

grain store

hangar

livestock shed

flea-pit

outhouse

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

[bɑɹn]

From Middle English barn, bern, bærn, 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-West Germanic *raʀn, 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. For the use as a unit of surface area, see w:Barn (unit) § Etymology.