barn

barn

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English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: bärn
    • (General American, Ireland) IPA(key): [bɑɹn], [bɑɻn]
    • (Scotland) IPA(key): [baɾn]
    • (New York City) IPA(key): [bɒən]
    • (Received Pronunciation, General South African) IPA(key): [bɑːn]
    • (New Zealand, parts of England) IPA(key): [bɐːn]
    • (General Australian, Wales, Boston) IPA(key): [baːn]
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)n

Etymology 1

From Middle English barn, bern, bærn, from Old English bearn, bern, contracted forms of Old English berern, bereærn (“barn, granary”), compound of bere (“barley”) and ærn, ræn (“dwelling, barn”), from Proto-West Germanic *raʀn, from Proto-Germanic *razną (compare Old Norse rann), from pre-Germanic *h₁rh̥₁-s-nó-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁erh₁- (“to rest”).

More at rest and barley.

For the use as a unit of surface area, see w:Barn (unit) § Etymology.

Noun

barn (plural barns)

  1. (agriculture) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
  2. (nuclear physics) A unit of surface area equal to 10−28 square metres.
  3. (informal, basketball, ice hockey) An arena.
  4. (slang) A warm and cozy place, especially a bedroom; a roost.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

barn (third-person singular simple present barns, present participle barning, simple past and past participle barned)

  1. (transitive) To lay up in a barn.
    Synonym: (obsolete) imbarn

Etymology 2

From Middle English barn, bern, from Old English bearn (“child, son, offspring, progeny”) and Old Norse barn (“child”). Doublet of bairn. Cognate to Frisian bern ("child/children"), Middle Dutch baren (“child”).

Noun

barn (plural barns)

  1. (dialect, parts of Northern England) A child.
Synonyms
  • (child): bairn
Translations

References

  • “barn”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • “barn”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • NRAB, bran, N-bar, Bran

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *barnati (“proclaim”). Cognate with Cornish barna.

Verb

barn

  1. (transitive) To judge.

Inflection

Conjugation

Derived terms

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish barn, from Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną. Compare English bairn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /barn/, /b̥ɑːˀn/, [pɑ̈ˀn]

Noun

barn n (singular definite barnet, plural indefinite børn)

  1. child (immature human)
    Dette er ikke et passende sted for børn.
    This is not a fitting place for children.
  2. child (human offspring)
    Mine børn er alle flyttet hjemmefra.
    My children have all moved out.

Usage notes

In compounds: barn-, barne-, barns- or børne-.

Declension

Derived terms

References

  • “barn” in Den Danske Ordbog

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną, the passive participle of *beraną; cognate with Latvian bērns (“child”), Lithuanian bérnas (“servant”); from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpatn]
  • Rhymes: -atn

Noun

barn n (genitive singular barns, plural børn)

  1. child

Declension

French

Pronunciation

Noun

barn m (plural barns)

  1. (physics) barn (unit)

Gothic

Romanization

barn

  1. Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌽

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpartn̥], (colloquial) [ˈpatn̥], (southeastern) [ˈparn]
  • Rhymes: -artn, -atn

Noun

barn n (genitive singular barns, nominative plural börn)

  1. child

Declension

Derived terms

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English barn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbarn/
  • Rhymes: -arn
  • Hyphenation: bàrn

Noun

barn m (invariable)

  1. (nuclear physics) barn (a unit of surface area)

Further reading

  • barn in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English bearn, from Proto-West Germanic *barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną.

Alternative forms

  • bern, bearn, bærn, barne, berne, baren

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /barn/, /baːrn/, /bɛrn/

Noun

barn (plural barnes or barnen)

  2. A member of one's immediate offspring or progeny.
  3. A child, youth, or baby.
  4. A person; a member of humanity.
  5. A younger soldier or fighter.
Related terms
Descendants
  • English: barn (obsolete, dialectal)
  • Geordie English: bairn
  • Scots: bairn
    • → English: bairn
  • Yola: barrn
References
  • “bā̆rn, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.

Etymology 2

Noun

barn

  2. Alternative form of bern (“barn”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse barn (“child”), from Proto-Germanic *barną (“child”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɑːɳ/

Noun

barn n (definite singular barnet, indefinite plural barn, definite plural barna or barnene)

  1. child

Derived terms

References

  • “barn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • badn, bonn, bån

Etymology

From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną (“child”), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”). The plural form born is from the Old Norse u-umlauted form bǫrn. This umlaut can also be seen in Icelandic börn and Danish and Faroese børn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baːrn/, /baːɳ/
  • (palatal N) IPA(key): /baːɲ/ (Can we verify(+) this pronunciation?)

Noun

barn n (definite singular barnet, indefinite plural barn or born, definite plural barna or borna)

  1. child

Inflection

Derived terms

Related terms

  • bera (“to bear, carry”, verb)

References

  • “barn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną.

Noun

barn n (genitive barns, plural børn)

  1. child

Descendants

  • Danish: barn

Old English

Verb

barn

  1. first/third-person singular preterite of beirnan

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną, whence also Old Saxon barn, Old English bearn, Old Norse barn.

Noun

barn n

  1. child

Declension

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *barną, the passive participle of *beraną; cognate with Latvian bērns (“child”), Lithuanian bérnas (“servant”); from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-.

Noun

barn n (genitive barns, plural bǫrn)

  1. child

Declension

Descendants

References

  • “barn”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną, whence also Old English bearn, Old High German barn, Old Norse barn.

Noun

barn n

  1. child

Declension


Old Swedish

Alternative forms

  • ᛒᛆᚱᚿ (Runic)

Etymology

From Old Norse barn, from Proto-Germanic *barną.

Noun

barn n

  1. child

Declension

Descendants

  • Swedish: barn

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English barn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbarn/
  • Rhymes: -arn
  • Syllabification: barn

Noun

barn m inan

  1. (nuclear physics) barn (unit of surface area equal to 10−28 square metres)

Declension

Further reading

  • barn in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Noun

barn m (plural barns)

  1. (physics) barn

Further reading

  • “barn”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish barn (“child”), from Old Norse barn (“child”), from Proto-Germanic *barną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-. Cognate with Danish barn, Icelandic barn, Old Saxon barn, Old High German barn, Latvian bērns (“child”), Lithuanian bérnas (“worker”) and bernẽlis (“lad”), a kind of participle to bära (“to bear, to carry, as in childbirth”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɑːrn/, [bɑːɳ]

Noun

barn n

  1. a child (young person)
  2. a child (son or daughter)
  3. (figuratively) a child (descendant, indirectly, for example in religious contexts)
  4. (figuratively) a child (follower, like above)
  5. (figuratively) a child (someone's creation or the like)
  6. (uncountable) barn (a unit of area in nuclear physics)

Declension

Synonyms

  • unge
  • telning

Derived terms

See also

  • pojke
  • flicka

References

  • barn in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • barn in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • barn in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
  • Svensk MeSH
  • barn in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *barnati from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /barn/

Noun

barn f (plural barnau)

  1. opinion, view
  2. judgement, sentence

Derived terms

  • barnu (“to adjudge; to pass sentence”)
  • Dydd y Farn (“Judgement Day”)
  • rhagfarn (“prejudice”)

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