barm

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɑːm/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɑɹm/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)m

From Middle English barm, barme, berm, bearm, from Old English bearm (“lap; bosom”), from Proto-West Germanic *barm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz (“lap; bosom”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear”). Cognate with German Barm (“lap; bosom”).

barm (plural barms) (obsolete outside dialects)

1. bosom
2. lap

From Middle English berme, berm, from Old English beorma, from Proto-West Germanic *bermō (“yeast; barm”); related to the dialectal Low German Bärm (“yeast”), from Middle Low German barm, berm. The cake sense is possibly a shortened form of barmcake, which would be made with yeast as described in that sense, or possibly it is from the Irish bairín breac, a type of bread.

barm (countable and uncountable, plural barms)

1. Foam rising upon beer or other malt liquors when fermenting, used as leaven in brewing and making bread; yeast.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], line 25:

     [A]nd sometimes make the drink to bear no barm.

   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 620:

     In 1577 yeast, called barm, is bought at 9d. the pail.

   • 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

     And he chaffed the women as he served them their ha'porths of barm.

     Penguin 2006, p. 65

2. A small, round, flat individual loaf or roll of bread.

• bacon barm
• barmbrack
• barmy
• chip barm

From Middle English bermen, from the noun (see above).

barm (third-person singular simple present barms, present participle barming, simple past and past participle barmed)

1. To spurge; foam

• AMBR, Bram

• barmë

A masculine variant of barmë^[1]

barm m

1. bast

• bardhë
• berk

From Middle High German warm, from Old High German warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz (“warm”). Cognate with German warm, Dutch warm, English warm, Icelandic varmur.

barm (comparative bérmor, superlative dar bérmorste)

1. (Luserna, Sette Comuni) warm, hot

   Hòite machetz barm. ― It's hot today.

• “barm” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

From Old Norse baðmr (“bosom”).

barm c (singular definite barmen, plural indefinite barme)

1. bosom

From Old Norse barmr (“rim”).

barm c (singular definite barmen, plural indefinite barme)

1. (nautical, archaic) a corner of a sail

barm

1. romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌼

barm

1. indefinite accusative singular of barmur

From Old English bearm, from Proto-West Germanic *barm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz.

• bærm, bearm, berm (early Southern and West Midlands)
• barme, barym (Late Middle English)

• IPA^(key): /barm/

barm (plural barmes, dative barme)

1. The lap (The portion of one's legs that lies flat while sitting)
   • Late 14th century: And with that word this faucon gan to crie / And swowned eft in Canacees barm. — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
2. chest, torso, abdomen
   • Late 14th century: [...] kisse hire child er that it deyde / And in hir barm this litel child she leyde. — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Clerk's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
3. belly, stomach
4. (rare) A flat surface that serves as a resting-place.

• English: barm
• Scots: berme, berm, barm

• “barm, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 May 2018.

barm

1. (Late Middle English) alternative form of berme (“yeast”)

From Old Norse baðmr.

• IPA^(key): /bɑrm/

barm m (definite singular barmen, indefinite plural barmar, definite plural barmane)

1. a bosom

• “barm” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Swedish barmber, from Old Norse baðmr (“bosom”).

barm c

1. (somewhat solemn) bosom

Byst is often closer in tone to bosom in a casual, old-fashioned (folksy) context. Barm sounds somewhat solemn.

• barm in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• barm in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• barm in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)