bāris

See also: baris, barış, and Barış

Latvian

Etymology

From the same stem as bārs (lonely) (q.v.), made into a second declension masculine noun (ending -is).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [bàːɾis]
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Noun

bāris m (2nd declension, feminine form: bāre)

  1. (rare, usually genitive) (male) orphan (a boy who has lost one or both parents)
    bāra bērns, bārabērnsorphan child
    kļūt par bārito become an orphan
    netrūkst starp viņiem arī bāra bērnu, kam karš nolaupījis mātes glāstu un tēva padomuamong them, thereis no shortage of orphan children, from whom the war stole (their) mother's caresses and (their) father's advice

Declension

Synonyms

Verb

bāris

  1. (with the particle esot) past conjunctive of bārt
  2. (with the particle būtu) past conditional of bārt

Participle

bāris (definite bārušais)

  1. having scolded; indefinite past active participle of bārt

Declension

References

  1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “bārs”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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