narr

narr (third-person singular simple present narrs, present participle narring, simple past and past participle narred)

1. (rare or obsolete, intransitive) Alternative spelling of gnar.

• “narr, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Borrowed from Middle Low German narre, itself borrowed from Middle High German narre, from Old High German narro.

narr (genitive narri, partitive narri)

1. fool, joker, jester

• “narr”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• narr in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

• nar (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

Borrowed from German Narr.

narr m (feminine singular narra, masculine plural narrs, feminine plural narras)

1. (Sursilvan) crazy, mad

Attested in Swedish at least since 1528; from Middle Low German narre, from Old Saxon *narro, from Proto-West Germanic *narrō. Cognate with Danish narr and Norwegian Nynorsk narr.

narr c

1. a jester, joker, fool
2. a fool (ridiculous (and conceited) person)

• göra narr av (“make fun of, ridicule”)

• narra
• narri
• narrmössa

• → Estonian: narr
• → Finnish: narri

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