bår

See also: baar, -baar, and Appendix:Variations of "bar"

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse bára, from Proto-Germanic *bērō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boːr/
• Homophone: bor

Noun

bår c

1. a barrow, a litter (tool for carrying)
2. a bier (carrying a dead person at a funeral)
3. a stretcher; a simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person.

Declension

Declension of bår

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	bår	bårs
	definite	båren	bårens
plural	indefinite	bårar	bårars
	definite	bårarna	bårarnas

Derived terms

• bårhus

Related terms

• barn
• boren
• bära
• börda

Further reading

• bår in Svensk ordbok.