Bauer

• As a German and Jewish surname, from German Bauer (“farmer”). Compare Bower.
• Also as a German and Jewish surname, from the obsolete Middle High German noun (ge)būr (“neighbour”), from Old High German bur (“dwelling”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbaʊ.əɹ/, /ˈbaʊəɹ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aʊ.ə(ɹ), -aʊə(ɹ)
• Homophones: Bower, bower (some etymologies)

Bauer

1. A surname from German.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Bauer is the 517^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 65,004 individuals. Bauer is most common among White (95.1%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Bauer”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 115.

• Baure, Abure, Breau, Abreu

• IPA^(key): [ˈbau̯ɛr]

Bauer m anim (female equivalent Bauerová)

1. a male surname from German

• “Bauer”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)
• Beneš, Josef (2020) Německá příjmení u Čechů [German Surnames of Czechs] (in Czech), Prague: Agentura Pankrác, →ISBN, page 304

Bauer ?

1. a surname from German

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaʊ̯ɐ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aʊ̯ɐ

From Middle High German būre, gebūre, from Old High German būr (“peasant”), gibūr, gibūro. All these forms ultimately descend from Proto-West Germanic *būr, itself from Proto-Germanic *būraz (“inhabitant, dweller”). Compare English boor.

Bauer m (weak or mixed, genitive (standard) Bauern or (informal) Bauers, plural Bauern, diminutive Bäuerchen n or Bäuerlein n, feminine Bäuerin or Bäurin)

1. farmer (male or of unspecified gender)

   Synonyms: Landwirt, Farmer

2. peasant (male or of unspecified gender)
3. (derogatory) boor, yokel, bumpkin (male or of unspecified gender)
4. (chess) pawn
5. (card games) jack, knave

   Synonyms: Bube m, Unter m

• Bauer is a weak noun in the standard language, but is part of a group of nouns which have a clear tendency to be strong colloquially, so one will often hear dem Bauer instead of dem Bauern.

• → English: bauer; bower
• → Polish: bauer
• → Serbo-Croatian: pȁor, па̏ор

Bauer m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Bauers or (with an article) Bauer, feminine genitive Bauer, plural Bauers or Bauer)

1. a surname originating as an occupation

• Bauerschmidt, Bauerfeind, Bauersachs
• Angerbauer, Beckenbauer, Bergbauer, Gebauer, Hofbauer, Holzbauer, Lettenbauer
• Neubauer, Rosenbauer, Schmidbauer, Seebauer, Steinbauer, Wackerbauer, Waldbauer

From Middle High German būr, from Old High German būr (“dwelling”).

Bauer n or m (strong, genitive Bauers, plural Bauer)

1. (archaic or regional) birdcage

   Synonyms: Vogelkäfig m, Vogelbauer n or m

• Vogelbauer m

From bauen +‎ -er.

Bauer m (strong, genitive Bauers, plural Bauer, feminine Bauerin)

1. (almost exclusively in compounds) builder (male or of unspecified gender)

• “Bauer” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Bauer (Bebauer, Erbauer)” in Duden online
• “Bauer, Landwirt, Schachspielfigur” in Duden online
• “Bauer (Vogelkäfig)” in Duden online

From Middle High German būre, gebūre, from Old High German būr (“peasant”), gibūr, gibūro.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɑʊ̯ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɑʊɐ

Bauer m (plural Baueren)

1. farmer
2. pawn (chess piece)

• Kaffert

From Middle High German būre, gebūre, from Old High German būr (“peasant”), gibūr, gibūro.

Bauer m (plural Bauer)

1. farmer

• IPA^(key): [ˈbauer]

Bauer m pers (female equivalent Bauerová)

1. a male surname

• “Bauer”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Borrowed from German Bauer.

• IPA^(key): /bauɛr/

Bauer m anim

1. a surname from German

• “Bauer”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025