barn

Pronunciation

• enPR: bärn, IPA^(key): /bɑɹn/
  • (General Australian, Boston) IPA^(key): [baːn]
  • (NYC) IPA^(key): [bɒən]
  • (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): [bɐːn]
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [bɑː(ɹ)n]
  • (US) IPA^(key): [bɑɹn]
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)n

Etymology 1

From Middle English bern, from Old English bereærn (“barn, granary”), compound of bere (“barley”) and ærn, ræn (“dwelling, barn”), 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.

Etymology 2

From Middle English barn, bern, from Old English bearn (“child, son, offspring, prodigy”) and Old Norse barn (“child”). More at bairn.

Anagrams

• Bran, NRAB, bran

Etymology

Cognate with Cornish barna.

Verb

barn

1. (transitive) to judge

Etymology

From Old Danish barn, from Old Norse barn (“child”), from Proto-Germanic *barną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /barn/, [b̥ɑːˀn]

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.

References

• “barn” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

Noun

barn m (plural barns)

1. (physics) barn (unit)

Romanization

barn

1. Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌽

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpartn], IPA^(key): [ˈpatn] (colloquial), IPA^(key): [ˈparn] (Southeast dialect)
• Rhymes: -artn
• Rhymes: -atn

Noun

barn n (genitive singular barns, nominative plural börn)

1. child

Etymology 1

From Old English bearn, from Proto-Germanic *barną.

Etymology 2

From Old English bereærn.

Etymology

From Old Norse barn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑːɳ/

Noun

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

1. a child

References

• “barn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology

From Old Norse barn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑːrn/

Noun

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

1. a child

References

• “barn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Etymology

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

Noun

barn n (genitive barns, plural børn)

1. child

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

References

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

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *barną, whence also Old English barn, Old High German barn, Swedish barn.

Noun

barn n

1. child

Etymology

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

Noun

barn n

1. child

Noun

barn m inan

1. barn (unit)

Further reading

• barn in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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]

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Noun

barn n

1. a child (a young person)
2. (someone's) child, offspring (a son or daughter)
3. a descendant (e.g. children of Abraham)
4. a follower (e.g. God's children)
5. (someone's) creation, invention
6. (uncountable) barn; a unit of area in nuclear physics

References

• barn in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
• barn in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /barn/

Noun

barn f (plural barnau)

1. opinion, view

Mutation