bára

From Old Norse bára (“billow, wave”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɑːɹa/
• Rhymes: -ɔɑːɹa
• Homophone: Bára

bára f (genitive singular báru, plural bárur)

1. a single little wave, billow

   Tað er ikki bára á sjónum.

   It is totally calm.

   Sjáldan er ein báran støk.

   “When it rains, it pours.”

• alda, smábrot

From Old Norse bára (“billow, wave”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpauːra/

  Rhymes: -auːra

  Homophone: Bára

bára f (genitive singular báru, nominative plural bárur)

1. wave

• sigla milli skers og báru (“to sit on the fence, to take the middle road”)
• sjaldan er ein báran stök (“it never rains but it pours”)
• þungur á bárunni (“unyielding”)

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• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈpaːra/

bára

1. bar (public house)

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear”), probably through a Proto-Germanic root similar to *bērō.^[1]

bára f

1. wave, billow

• báróttr

• Danish: båre
• Faroese: bára
• Icelandic: bára
• Norwegian Bokmål: båre, bår
• Norwegian Nynorsk: båre
• Old Swedish: bār
  • Swedish: bår
• → Middle English: bare
  • English: bore
  • Scots: boar, bore
• Norman : barre

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “bára”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 45; also available at the Internet Archive