-bar

-bar

1. -able

Truncates final schwa: ‎læse + ‎-bar → ‎læsbar.

• -lig
• -abel (mostly with Romance words)

From Middle High German -bære, from Old High German -bāri, from Proto-Germanic *bēriz.

The modern vowel -a- is after the adverb form (Middle High German -bāre, Old High German -bāro), which came to be used in predicative and then also in attributive position. This development was especially Low and Central German (compare Middle Low German -bār(e) alongside -bēr(e)). Also cognate with Dutch -baar, West Frisian -ber, Old English -bǣre.[1] Old Norse -bærr (Old Swedish -bǣr). This suffix is said to be West Germanic, so the Old Norse form is probably an early Middle Low German borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /baːɐ̯/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /baː/, /bɐ/ (common speech)

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• Homophones: bar, Bar

-bar

1. -able, -ible

   Synonym: -abel

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑːɾ/

From bar (“burden; responsibility”), ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”).

-bar (Arabic spelling ـبار)

1. Used to form adjectives with a figurative meaning of “bearing”:-y, -ed

   ‎tawan (“guilt; crime; sin”) + ‎-bar → ‎tawanbar (“accused, suspected; guilty”)

From a Germanic language. Compare German -bar, Dutch -baar,

-bar (Arabic spelling ـبار)

1. Used to form adjectives meaning “able to be done”: -able, -ible

   ‎xwarin (“to eat”) + ‎-bar → ‎xwarinbar (“edible”)

Cognate with ber (“in front of”), from Proto-Iranian *upári (“above; over”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *upári (“above; over”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *upér (“above; over”).

-bar (Arabic spelling ـبار)

1. (rare) in front, beside, or close to

• Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “-bar III”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 32

From Middle Low German -bar.

-bar

1. -able (in broad terms, but not always). This suffix converts nouns and verbs to adjectives, as well as modifying other adjectives.

• “-bar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Low German -bar.

-bar

1. -able (as above)

• “-bar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Swedish -bar, borrowed from Middle Low German -bar, from Old Saxon -bari.

Cognate with native Old Swedish -bǣr (Old Norse -bærr), German -bar (from Old High German -bāri), Dutch -baar, Old English -bære.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˌbɑːr/

-bar

1. -able; create an adjective from a noun or verb

• bra