baar

Meaning

Noun

1. (feminine) a bier, a stretcher, a litter; a device used to carry someone or something, especially wounded or dead people
2. (feminine) a bed on which a dead person is displayed before he is buried

Adj

said of money; cash

Verb

1. (first-person,form-of,indicative,present,singular) inflection of baren:
2. (form-of,indicative,present,second-person,singular) inflection of baren:
3. (form-of,imperative) inflection of baren:

Pronounced as (IPA)

/baːr/

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bâre, from Old Dutch bier, from Proto-West Germanic *bērō, from Proto-Germanic *bērō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry, bear”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Beere (“stretcher, bier”), English bier, German Bahre (“bier, stretcher”).