barm

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English barm, barme, berm, bearm, from Old English bearm (“lap; bosom”), from Proto-Germanic *barmaz (“lap; bosom”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear”). Cognate with German Barm (“lap; bosom”).

Noun

barm (plural barms)

  1. (obsolete except in dialects) Bosom, lap.

Etymology 2

From Middle English berme, berm, from Old English beorma, from Proto-Germanic *bermô (“yeast; barm”); related to the dialectal Low German Bärm (“yeast”), from Middle Low German barm, berm. The cake sense is possibly a shortened form of barmcake, which would be made with yeast as described in that sense, or possibly it is from the Irish báirín breac, a type of bread.

Noun

barm (countable and uncountable, plural barms)

  1. Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast.
    • 1590?, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II. scene i. line 25:
      ...and sometimes make the drink to bear no barm.
    • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 620:
      In 1577 yeast, called barm, is bought at 9d. the pail.
    • 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, p. 65:
      And he chaffed the women as he served them their ha'porths of barm.
  2. A small, flat, round individual loaf or roll of bread.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English bermen, from the noun (see above).

Verb

barm (third-person singular simple present barms, present participle barming, simple past and past participle barmed)

  1. To spurge; foam

See also

Anagrams

Cimbrian

Adjective

barm

  1. warm

Noun

barm ? (plural [please provide])

  1. heat

References

  • “barm” in Umberto Martello Martalar, Alfonso Bellotto, Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Setti Communi vicentini, 1st edition, 1974.
  • Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse baðmr (“bosom”).

Noun

barm c (singular definite barmen, plural indefinite barme)

  1. bosom
Inflection

Etymology 2

From Old Norse barmr (“rim”).

Noun

barm c (singular definite barmen, plural indefinite barme)

  1. (nautical, archaic) a corner of a sail
Inflection

Gothic

Romanization

barm

  1. Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌼

Icelandic

Noun

barm

  1. indefinite accusative singular of barmur

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English bearm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /barm/, /bɛrm/

Noun

barm (plural barmes)

  1. The lap (The portion of one's legs that lies flat while sitting)
    • Late 14th century: And with that word this faucon gan to crie / And swowned eft in Canacees barm. — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
  2. chest, torso, abdomen
  3. belly, stomach
  4. (rare) A flat surface that serves as a resting-place.
Descendants
References

Etymology 2

From Old English beorma.

Noun

barm

  1. Alternative form of berme (“yeast”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse baðmr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɑrm/

Noun

barm m (definite singular barmen, indefinite plural barmar, definite plural barmane)

  1. a bosom

References

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse baðmr (“bosom”).

Noun

barm c

  1. bosom

Declension

Declension of barm 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative barm barmen barmar barmarna
Genitive barms barmens barmars barmarnas
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