bàrr

See also: barr, Barr, barr-, bárr, and Bärr

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish barr (“top, tip, end; crop, produce”), from Proto-Celtic *barros (compare Middle Welsh barr), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰers-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paːrˠ/

Noun

bàrr m (genitive singular barra, plural barran)

1. peak, top, crest
2. point, tip

Derived terms

• air bàrr teangaidh (“on the tip of one's tongue”)
• bàrr a' chinn (“top, crown (of head)”)
• bhàrr (“down from, from off”)
• dèan bun no bàrr (“make head or tail”)