barn

• enPR: bärn, IPA^(key): /bɑɹn/
  • (General American, Ireland) IPA^(key): [bɑɹn], [bɑɻn]
  • (Scotland) IPA^(key): [baɾn]
  • (NYC) IPA^(key): [bɒən]
  • (Received Pronunciation, General South African) IPA^(key): [bɑːn]

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  • (New Zealand, parts of England) IPA^(key): [bɐːn]
  • (General Australian, Wales, Boston) IPA^(key): [baːn]
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)n

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.

barn (plural barns)

1. (agriculture) A building, often found on a farm, used for storage or keeping animals such as cattle.
   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.

2. (nuclear physics) A unit of surface area equal to 10⁻²⁸ square metres.
3. (informal, basketball, ice hockey) An arena.

   Maple Leaf Gardens was a grand old barn.

4. (slang) A warm and cozy place, especially a bedroom; a roost.

• Besses o' th' Barn

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

   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, line 859:

     But like still-pining Tantalus he sits / And useless barns the harvest of his wits

   • 1645, Thomas Fuller, Good Thoughts in Bad Times; Good Thoughts in Worse Times; Mixt Contemplations in Better Times, published 1863, page 165:

     Hypocrites, in like manner, so act holiness that they pass for saints before men, whose censures often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain.

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”).

barn (plural barns)

1. (dialect, parts of Northern England) A child.

• (child): bairn

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

• Bran, NRAB, bran

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

barn

1. (transitive) To judge.

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

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

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.

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

• “barn” in Den Danske Ordbog

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-.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpatn]
• Rhymes: -atn

barn n (genitive singular barns, plural børn)

1. child

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barn m (plural barns)

1. (physics) barn (unit)

barn

1. Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌽

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

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

barn n (genitive singular barns, nominative plural börn)

1. child

Unadapted borrowing from English barn.

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

barn m (invariable)

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

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /barn/, /baːrn/, /bɛrn/

barn (plural barnes or barnen)

1. A member of one's immediate offspring or progeny.
2. A child, youth, or baby.
   • c. 1335-1361, William of Palerne (MS. King's College 13), folio 6, recto, lines 198-199; republished as W. W. Skeat, editor, The Romance of William of Palerne‎, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1867, →OCLC, page 12:

     Hit tidde after on a time · as tellus our bokes / as þis bold barn his beſtes · blybeliche keped […]

     Afterwards, as our books record, it happened one day that / while this brave child was peacefully looking after his animals […]

3. A person; a member of humanity.
4. A younger soldier or fighter.

• English: barn (obsolete, dialectal)
• Geordie English: bairn
• Scots: bairn
  • → English: bairn
• Yola: barrn

• “bā̆rn, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.

barn

1. Alternative form of bern (“barn”)

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

• IPA^(key): /bɑːɳ/

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

1. child

• “barn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• badn, bonn, bån

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.

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

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

1. child

• bera (“to bear, carry”, verb)

• “barn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

barn n (genitive barns, plural børn)

1. child

• Danish: barn

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

barn n

1. child

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

barn n (genitive barns, plural bǫrn)

1. child

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

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

barn n

1. child

• ᛒᛆᚱᚿ (Runic)

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

barn n

1. child

• Swedish: barn

Borrowed from English barn.

• IPA^(key): /barn/

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• Rhymes: -arn
• Syllabification: barn

barn m inan

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

• barn in Polish dictionaries at PWN

barn m (plural barns)

1. (physics) barn

• “barn”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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”).

• IPA^(key): /bɑːrn/, [bɑːɳ]

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barn n

1. a child (young person)

   Barnen leker

   The children are playing

   Han är bara ett barn / Han är bara barnet

   He is only a child ("Bara vara barnet" (literally, "only be the child") is an alternative way to express the same thing)

2. a child (son or daughter)

   Du är mitt barn

   You are my child

   adoptivbarn

   adopted children

3. (figuratively) a child (descendant, indirectly, for example in religious contexts)
4. (figuratively) a child (follower, like above)

   Guds barn

   God's children

5. (figuratively) a child (someone's creation or the like)
6. (uncountable) barn (a unit of area in nuclear physics)

• unge
• telning

• pojke
• flicka

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

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

• IPA^(key): /barn/

barn f (plural barnau)

1. opinion, view
2. judgement, sentence

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