Bara

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bara"

English

Etymology

From Romanian Bara.

Proper noun

Bara

1. A commune of Timiș, Romania.
2. A village in Bara, Timiș, Romania.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian bara (“pond, swamp”).

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Bara f

1. A commune of Timiș, Romania
2. A village in Bara, Timiș, Romania

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbara/

Proper noun

Bara f (genitive singular Bary, nominative plural Bary, genitive plural Bár, declension pattern of žena)

1. a diminutive of the female given name Barbora

Declension

Declension of Bara

	singular	plural
nominative	Bara	Bary
genitive	Bary	Bár
dative	Bare	Barám
accusative	Baru	Bary
locative	Bare	Barách
instrumental	Barou	Barami

Further reading

• “Barbora”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

Yoruba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bà.ɾà/

Proper noun

Bàrà

1. (historical) the royal burial site of the Aláàfin of the Ọ̀yọ́ empire in the capital city of Ọ̀yọ́-Ilé
2. the current royal burial site of the Aláàfin of Ọ̀yọ́, established after the destruction of Ọ̀yọ́-Ilé in present-day Ọ̀yọ́ town.

References

• Smith, Robert. THE BARA, OR ROYAL MAUSOLEUM, AT NEW OYO [1], 1965
• Wood, Molara. Finding Bàrà: History at an Empire Town [2], 2022