barra
Meaning
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- (feminine) bar (solid object with uniform cross-section)
- (feminine) bar, ingot
- (feminine) cuff (the end of a pants leg, folded up)
- (feminine) slash
- (feminine) bend sinister
- (feminine) crossbar
- (feminine) bar (ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
bar‧ra
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈba.ʁɐ/
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *barra, possibly from Gaulish *barros (“the bushy end”), cognate with French barre and English bar.
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New
barrir
to trumpet (of an elephant: to make its characteristic call)
New
barrar
- to abate (to bar, to except)
- to bar (to obstruct the passage of)
- to debar (to exclude or shut out; to bar)
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