bars

See also: Bars, BARS, bärs, bårs, Bärs, and bārs

English

bars (4)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑː(ɹ)z/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)z

Noun

bars

1. plural of bar

Noun

bars pl (plural only)

1. (sports) An apparatus on which certain gymnastics are performed, especially parallel bars.
   1. (gymnastics) Ellipsis of uneven bars.
   2. (gymnastics) Ellipsis of parallel bars.
2. (sports) An event in gymnastics using bars.
3. (slang) Well-constructed rap lyrics.
   • 2021, Jehnie I. Burns, Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation, page 138:

     […] mutating into all-star line-ups of emcees spitting hot bars over familiar beats, then to a single crew spitting bars over familiar beats, then eventually to a single crew (or artist) spitting bars over unfamiliar beats.

   • '2022, Shanté Paradigm Smalls, Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City (page 89)

     Here was an emcee not only capable of spitting “bars” (good rhymes), but thoughtfully creative in her meditation on Black heterosexual relations.

Derived terms

• (gymnastics event): asymmetric bars, parallel bars, uneven bars

Translations

gymnastics event

• Finnish: nojapuut (fi)
• Russian: паралле́льные бру́сья (ru) m pl (parallélʹnyje brúsʹja), бру́сья (ru) m pl (brúsʹja)

grating, grill, grid

• Azerbaijani: barmaqlıq, məhəccər
• Belarusian: кра́ты f pl (kráty), рашо́тка f (rašótka)
• Bulgarian: реше́тка (bg) f (rešétka)
• Czech: mříž (cs) f, mřížka (cs) f
• French: grille (fr) f
• German: Gitter (de) n
• Macedonian: решетка f (rešetka)
• Polish: krata (pl) f
• Russian: решётка (ru) f (rešótka)
• Slovak: mriežka f
• Ukrainian: ґра́ти (uk) f pl (gráty), реші́тка (uk) f (rešítka)

References

• “bars”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Gymnastics

Verb

bars

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of bar

Anagrams

• ABRs, ARBs, BRAS, arbs, bras, sbar

Catalan

Noun

bars

1. plural of bar

Crimean Gothic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bardaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰardʰeh₂. Stearns argues that the spelling is a misprint for unattested *bart.

Noun

bars

1. beard
   • 1589, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, letter:

     Bars. Barba.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Danish

Noun

bars c

1. indefinite genitive singular of bar

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑrs/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: bars
• Rhymes: -ɑrs

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Low German [Term?].

Adjective

bars (comparative barser, superlative meest bars or barst)

1. stern, strict

Declension

Declension of bars
uninflected	bars
inflected	barse
comparative	barser
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		bars	barser	het barst het barste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	barse	barsere	barste
	n. sing.	bars	barser	barste
	plural	barse	barsere	barste
definite		barse	barsere	barste
partitive		bars	barsers	—

Derived terms

• barsheid

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

bars

1. plural of bar

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baʁ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aʁ

Noun

bars m

1. plural of bar

Anagrams

• bras

Latvian

Noun

bars m (1st declension)

1. crowd
2. multitude
3. crush
4. throng
5. brood (a group of young birds)
6. herd
7. pod (a group of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises or hippopotami)
8. plump (a knot or cluster)
9. be-in

Declension

Declension of bars (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	bars	bari
accusative (akuzatīvs)	baru	barus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	bara	baru
dative (datīvs)	baram	bariem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	baru	bariem
locative (lokatīvs)	barā	baros
vocative (vokatīvs)	bar	bari

Middle English

Noun

bars

1. Alternative form of bace

Polish

Etymology

Clipping of bardzo.

Pronunciation

• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Przemyśl) IPA^(key): [ˈbars]

Adverb

bars (not comparable)

1. (Przemyśl) Synonym of bardzo (“very”)

Further reading

• Antoni Kalina, editor (1898), “bars”, in Lud. Organ Towarzystwa Ludoznawczego we Lwowie (in Polish), volume 4, Lviv: Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze, page 307

Swedish

Noun

bars

1. indefinite genitive singular of bar

Verb

bars

1. past passive indicative of bära