barrière

Borrowed from Middle French barrière.

• IPA^(key): /ˌbɑ.riˈɛː.rə/

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• Hyphenation: bar‧ri‧è‧re
• Rhymes: -ɛːrə

barrière f or m (plural barrières, diminutive barrièretje n)

1. barrier

Inherited from Old French barriere, from barre, from Vulgar Latin *barra, possibly from Frankish *bara, from Proto-Germanic *barō.

• IPA^(key): /ba.ʁjɛʁ/ ~ /bɑ.ʁjɛʁ/

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barrière f (plural barrières)

1. barrier
2. (Louisiana) fence

• → Belarusian: бар'е́р (barʺjér), barjer — Łacinka (Belarusian Latin alphabet)
  • → Yiddish: באַריער (baryer)
• → German: Barriere
• → Polish: bariera
• → Russian: барьер (barʹjer)
  • → Azerbaijani: baryer
  • → Crimean Tatar: baryer
  • → Georgian: ბარიერი (barieri)
  • →? Lithuanian: barjeras
  • → Uzbek: baryer
  • → Yakut: барьер (barer)
• → Turkish: bariyer
• → Ukrainian: бар'є́р (barʺjér)

• “barrière”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.