Meaning
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- (feminine) bar, rod (a solid, more or less rigid object of metal or other material with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length)
- (feminine) bar (a counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.)
- (feminine) bar (various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in ¹⁄₂))
- (feminine) slash ("/" symbol)
- (feminine, proscribed, rare) backslash ("\" symbol)
- (feminine) bend sinister
- (feminine) barbell
- (feminine) fan, crowd, supporters (especially political)
Concepts
fraction line
loaf of bread
curtain rod
virgule
control column
Synonyms
trozo de madera
vara larga
barra del carruaje
tronco de árbol
palo del huso
barra de fracción
conjunto de muchas personas
Frequency
Hyphenated as
ba‧rra
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbara/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *barra, possibly from Gaulish *barros (“the bushy end”), cognate with French barre and English bar. Doublet of bar.
New
barrer
to sweep
New
barrar
to mud, to muddy
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